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The Sympathizer (2024)
Novel in France is the sequel to The Sympathizer
I was not able to locate the review where someone said that The Sympathizer was set in France--this is corrected in the review Starts with a Bang--but it is the sequel, The Committed, which is set in France. Both are on my "to read " list.
The series is very good but I agree with the "Roger Ebert" reviewer that the latter episodes sometimes lack the energy of the first ones, or, the energy of the director. So far, the 4th episode is the best--good to see David Duchovny in an over the top role or maybe Daniel Day Lewis?
Love the various roles of Robert Downey Jr.--am seeing all sorts of characters in them such as the American professor as Jack Benny right down to all of the gestures.
Suspicion (1941)
WWII reaction
When I saw this movie, I was very curious as to how Brits would see Johnnie's character and I almost forgot about the American reaction--the audience to whom Hitchcock would most favour given the movie was shot in Hollywood.
As the US soldiers were not in the war until after the movie was made, Cary Grant's star quality would endear him to American audiences as intended or at least keep them quite intrigued to see if he was just a lovable conman or a real murderer.
I think though that British audiences would have been quite puzzled by the English setting, the free style trips to Europe for the honeymoon as well as the Beaky trip and just the lack of any reference to the war in 1941. British men and women would find the free-wheeling Johnnie particularly nasty in his behaviour next to what British men and women were sacrificing at the time. I was very curious that I found no reference to this in any reviews. It was almost as if Hitchcock had set the movie in a very different time period perhaps 1932 the date of the book on which the movie was based. There certainly seem to be some deliberate choices, perhaps dictated by the studio, given that Hitchcock did not shy away from bringing the war into some of his later psychological thrillers.
Grantchester: Episode #6.3 (2021)
Great Quotes
BTW PBS viewers in Canada and the States are about a month behind on aired episodes.
You could tell Richard Cookson wrote this one. Potential councillor Reeny McArthur (Rebecca Front) had the two best ones:
"war is one awful choice after another"
"you can't rock the boat if they push you out of it"