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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust watched Redford's Three Days of the Condor for the first time...
...Powerful movie. What I liked the most was the ending: His final gun is not the 45 that he collected from the murdered gatekeeper, but the Grey Lady. How fitting to today's rants. Who says the institutional checks and balances that keep us alive are with the Government? An active, free press is just as important!
grantcart
(53,061 posts)LAS14
(13,800 posts)... and last night watched it for the third time from Netflix. One of the gifts of age is that we didn't remember a single thing except the few opening scenes. Just that it was a powerful, as you say, movie.
Let's hear it for the MSM! Much as they infuriated me during the campaign. We sure do need them, and thanks to the founding fathers for giving them a place in the constitution.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,145 posts)essentially raping her, but she falls for him anyway - makes me utterly loathe this sexist movie.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,264 posts)GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)There is an old fashioned sexism in the movie that is completely unacceptable. We discussed this as it was playing out last night. In a way it is a period piece-today that story would never fly in the theatre.
I say that is part of the history, and we have come a long way before we elected Agent Orange as Grabber in Chief...
LAS14
(13,800 posts)I don't think so. This sort of attitude gives the women's movement a bad name.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,145 posts)holds her against her will, and has sex with her. You don't? Fine. But don't then lecture ME about setting back the women's movement.
LAS14
(13,800 posts)... would have backed off immediately had she shown the very tiniest bit of reluctance. Your attitude infantilizes women. If she wanted to have sex after being abducted, that was her business.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,145 posts)Because Redford's character was depicted treating her the way I described and she was then fine with having sex with her abductor. What I consider a completely sexist, misogynistic depiction of a female character, whose autonomy was completely subservient to the male who abducted her.
LAS14
(13,800 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,145 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)It's a chilling story.
Iggo
(47,626 posts)Yoiks!
SchrodingersCatbox
(89 posts)By James Grady is the book it's based on. The story might not be as timely as the movie plot, but better IMO
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