In a message dated 03/22/2000 6:05:08 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< Now, if you start to discuss the difference between
 bad, evil, and morally ambiguous, the thing is going
 to get really complicated...

 I have been thinking about Monty Clift in "A Place in
 the Sun"... why do we consider him the hero, when he
 commits a crime? Why don't we feel pity for poor
 Shelly Winters? Why do we justify his murder?

 Very problematic film....
  >>

I really don't consider Clift the hero of A Place In The Sun, the film and
its original source is too complicated for such b&w observations. Clift is a
victim just as much as Winters is, and my heart felt pity for the two of
them.And maybe you justify his murder, I certainly don't. Lets not forget
that this film comes from a novel called "An American Tragedy."

Ira Joel Haber
Cinemage Books

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