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Rewatching movies. The Razor's Edge, 1946. I watched this first in my 20s, loved this movie and the book. Such grand sweeping ideas, relatable characters, of course I wanted to be larry.
It's been at least 10 years since I've seen it last and I see new things. Mainly the pervasive undercurrent of politics, the upcoming class war, the fascism, antisemitism and decadence of 1920's Europe and the complicity of religion. It's a ticking time bomb.
But what I mainly like now is how human it is. No one seems to do much thinking about life and society, they just accept and drift. All the characters have deep flaws and nearly everyone is so forgiving. Maybe they shouldn't have been so forgiving of the fascism, eh.
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