K.D. Lightner
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Last saw two movies, one Golden Era: watched Key Largo with my mother, who enjoyed it, especially Edward G. Robinson and Claire Trevor. She is not enamoured with either Bogart or Bacall, but then there's no accounting for taste. She was, in her day, a Clark Gable fan, so thought Bogie to be a bit small and scrawny.
This weekend, we watched Copenhagen, a movie that takes place during the early years of WW II but has a modern setting, also, where the "ghosts" of the past discuss what happened between them. I'd seen it two years ago, did not see the stage play. Mother seemed to enjoy it, though I think some of the talk of nuclear fission went over her head (and mine). I got a lot more out of it on the second sitting, though, the movie is pretty heady and thought-provoking.
It is a true story of the last meeting of two great nuclear physicists, one a German and one Danish (Heisenberg and Bors) and the author's conjecture as to what they may have discussed that caused the two of them to part forever as friends and colleagues. A third person, the liaison with the audience, is Bor's wife.
Fascinating, but not your standard popcorn-eating Friday night entertainment.
karol
This weekend, we watched Copenhagen, a movie that takes place during the early years of WW II but has a modern setting, also, where the "ghosts" of the past discuss what happened between them. I'd seen it two years ago, did not see the stage play. Mother seemed to enjoy it, though I think some of the talk of nuclear fission went over her head (and mine). I got a lot more out of it on the second sitting, though, the movie is pretty heady and thought-provoking.
It is a true story of the last meeting of two great nuclear physicists, one a German and one Danish (Heisenberg and Bors) and the author's conjecture as to what they may have discussed that caused the two of them to part forever as friends and colleagues. A third person, the liaison with the audience, is Bor's wife.
Fascinating, but not your standard popcorn-eating Friday night entertainment.
karol