Carrol Cox wrote:
>I would think impossible love would be radically different from merely
>"a love affair or potential love affair that got trashed." There is
>nothing impossible about the love in Anna Karenina, for example, anymore
>than it was impossible for Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) to survive in
>Unforgiven. It was just that the plot as worked out by the writer or
>writer/director) called for Anna's adulterous love affair to fail.
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What was impossible in AK was not the love but that it be contained in
the social milieu of the late nineteenth century. A and V loved each
other, insisted on doing it openly and on remaining part of the
Petersburg aristocracy. Not possible.
> And in Casablanca I
>would say that far from its being an impossible love it is not only a
>possible but a highly probable love that the lovers deliberately choose
>not to pursue. (The Hayes Office rules make it impossible of course, but
>that is not, I think, relevant.)
>
Impossible doesn't mean physically impossible. And I think your point
about the Hayes office is extremely relevant.
j.
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