Skeptical Film

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:A BRILLIANT movie, sharp, intense, fascinating: I can't praise it enough. It may take a while to think of ways it is skeptical, until you remember the "courtroom" scene, and the contrast of the "prosecutor" to the insane child murderer. I wonder if Charlie Chaplin's trial in Monsieur Verdoux was influenced by that scene. But even more ominous is the extraordinary German recordkeeping that the police use to track down the murderer, the same kind of recordkeeping used shortly later to track down the Jews for the Holocaust. If ever there was a film that illustrates the tradeoff between civil liberties and enforcement of law, this is the one. I consider that the skeptical strong point of the film, leading us to be skeptical of extreme demands for either at the expense of the other.

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:A BRILLIANT movie, sharp, intense, fascinating: I can't praise it enough. It may take a while to think of ways it is skeptical, until you remember the "courtroom" scene, and the contrast of the "prosecutor" to the insane child murderer. I wonder if Charlie Chaplin's trial in [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/630181214X/critiquesofliber Monsieur Verdoux] was influenced by that scene. But even more ominous is the extraordinary German recordkeeping that the police use to track down the murderer, the same kind of recordkeeping used shortly later to track down the Jews for the Holocaust. If ever there was a film that illustrates the tradeoff between civil liberties and enforcement of law, this is the one. I consider that the skeptical strong point of the film, leading us to be skeptical of extreme demands for either at the expense of the other.

; [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6302336546/critiquesofliber Black Robe]

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 ; [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0780018664/critiquesofliber M]
-:A BRILLIANT movie, sharp, intense, fascinating: I can't praise it enough. It may take a while to think of ways it is skeptical, until you remember the "courtroom" scene, and the contrast of the "prosecutor" to the insane child murderer. I wonder if Charlie Chaplin's trial in Monsieur Verdoux was influenced by that scene. But even more ominous is the extraordinary German recordkeeping that the police use to track down the murderer, the same kind of recordkeeping used shortly later to track down the Jews for the Holocaust. If ever there was a film that illustrates the tradeoff between civil liberties and enforcement of law, this is the one. I consider that the skeptical strong point of the film, leading us to be skeptical of extreme demands for either at the expense of the other.
+:A BRILLIANT movie, sharp, intense, fascinating: I can't praise it enough. It may take a while to think of ways it is skeptical, until you remember the "courtroom" scene, and the contrast of the "prosecutor" to the insane child murderer. I wonder if Charlie Chaplin's trial in [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/630181214X/critiquesofliber Monsieur Verdoux] was influenced by that scene. But even more ominous is the extraordinary German recordkeeping that the police use to track down the murderer, the same kind of recordkeeping used shortly later to track down the Jews for the Holocaust. If ever there was a film that illustrates the tradeoff between civil liberties and enforcement of law, this is the one. I consider that the skeptical strong point of the film, leading us to be skeptical of extreme demands for either at the expense of the other.
 ; [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6302336546/critiquesofliber Black Robe]