tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654907337795243186.post8417754546756014799..comments2024-02-05T08:24:58.654+00:00Comments on Three men on a blog: FILM REVIEW: The Go-Between (1971)Tom Waleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07174567275936628341noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654907337795243186.post-28707245993814454592022-11-29T18:44:04.590+00:002022-11-29T18:44:04.590+00:00I also disagree (mostly.) But for me The Go-betwee...I also disagree (mostly.) But for me The Go-between is pure cinematic sentiment. At the time I discovered a cinema that was richer than the James Bond films I saw. I was madly in love with Julie Christie (and on a more subconscious level Alan Bates, who "shocked" me a year earlier with his nude wrestle with macho Oliver Reed in Women in Love, lol). The repressive world of the hypocritical Victorians I found fascinating already in a 1968 Dutch TV series Knock On The Door where an upper class Amsterdam dynasty cannot cope with the changing morals during and after WW 1. Traumatic! Three sisters ending like tragic old spinsters, what never should have happened! So yes, I loved The Go-Between from the first till the last scene, and saw the movie quite a few times. Also, Michel Legrand's music I found - and still find - stunningly beautiful.<br />With certain of the blogger's points I now agree. But "dull"? No, not at all.dedeurshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09775849527808927607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654907337795243186.post-36565758695050115242015-06-09T09:49:13.497+01:002015-06-09T09:49:13.497+01:00Have to disagree with just about everything you wr...Have to disagree with just about everything you write about the film. The premise of the novel is societal repression and expectation, and exploitation of a child, and Losey and PInter capture this perfectly. The point is that 'they do things differently there' and to expect the characters to behave as we want is like saying to Henry VIII you must not cut off someone's head. The film is subtle and nuanced deliberately and indicates the disparities in class between the characters, which is what makes the ending on Leo's birthday when the denouement reveals that upper class Marian is being shagged in a barn by lower class Ted Burgess all the more shocking. The final conversation with Marian in old age shows that, for her grandson's sake she is still prepared to abuse her go-between of fifty years earlier, the implications being that some things never change. All very Pinteresque.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com