[lbo-talk] LBO Got All Crazy

[wrobert at uci.edu]

I've acutally read Traumnovelle by Schnitzler (years ago, and i
translation).  I never thought it was one of his better pieces.  For a
better novel, I recommend the Road Into The Open by him.  To be honest, my
impression of the film went up greatly after reading.  It's a good
adaptation of a fairly bad novel.  I know we're not supposed to care about
narratives and what not, but there you go.  robert wood
>
> i know the film's source material (not to say i've read it, mind you),
> but i still and always have seen it as a version of nathaniel
> hawthorne's "young goodman brown." i don't know if hawthorne sat
> behind the source novella or not, but i doubt it. cruise thinks
> himself purer than he is, inhumanly pure, and certainly more so than
> his fallen wife.
>
> and so, yes, i love it and think it's brilliant. the orgy scenes are
> just the forest in YGB. maybe.
>
> j
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