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Ditto

205.240.11.90

I love the music, particularly the piano piece in the beginning.
It _is_ laugh-out-loud funny once you get into it's particular, stoic groove.

laugh-out-loud funny stoicism - KT88 11:18:34 09/09/05 (0)
Ok, I gotta admit, THAT is funny! Not that I didn't "get" the film, it's just that it really had to drag out the laughs (or laugh) with a rope. I guess I just don't see "Post-War Guilt" as outrageously humorous?! This is a tough crowd - remind me not to show you guys my next script!
-Bill
Exactly, it's extraordinarily witty, but for audiences accustomed to - tinear 04:47:15 09/09/05 (2)
humor founded on extreme vulgarity, feces-slinging (pies aren't enough anymore), and sophomoric insults, this film will mystify them.
The fact that the humor is shown actually to mask a very serious underlying story (the post-WWII emotional landscape with its attendant guilt) only adds to the brilliance.
- I didn't pick up on so much guilt - 4season 19:29:40 09/09/05 (1)
  ...but then again, there could have been some war-related remarks which simply eluded me. If there was more meaning to the "Don't tell about the Finns" remark, or the roomful of pepper, or Grant's rather cryptic remark as he walks out of the haircut scene, I didn't really catch it.
  - Some Scandinavian countries were less resistive to the Nazis than - tinear 17:53:08 09/12/05 (0)
    others, much to their lasting guilt. That's the underlying "frisson" between the two main characters.

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