Those that can, do.
Those that can't, teach.
"D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Deucedly Perceptive.
>
> DSH
>
> Lux et Veritas et Libertas
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>
> This is a superb film regarding a
> narcissistic woman who damages the lives of
> the teenage girls entrusted to her care.
> She betrays the trust of the school that
> employs her as a teacher --- and the
> parents who haven't the foggiest notion of
> what she is doing to their children.
>
> The hero is the principal (Celia Johnson)
> who does what she can do to put a stop to
> the destructive misbehavior of Miss Jean
> Brodie.
>
> Our villain is so morally and
> intellectually bankrupt that she even
> wor****ps the Italian fascist Benito
> Mussolini. In Miss Brodie's warped elitist
> view of the universe, this misplaced
> adulation is evidence of her being in one's
> prime. She eventually gets one of her more
> naive and trusting "Brodie Girls" killed.
> And yet, the tragic death fails to deter
> her from causing further harm.
>
> The woman is truly a parent's worst
> nightmare. Maggie Smith excellently
> ****trays this less than admirable
> individual. Her Academy Award for best
> actress is well deserved.
>
> There is one more point that I feel
> compelled to add.
>
> Some people mistakenly believe that
> totalitarian dictators gain power by
> focusing on the conversion of the masses.
>
> Nothing could be further from the truth.
> The masses are of secondary im****tance.
> Mussolini, Castro, Stalin, and other
> ruthless thugs find it initially necessary
> to seduce middle class,
> pseudo-intellectuals like Miss Jean Brodie.
>
> These "useful idiots" lay the ground work
> for the horror that inevitably follows.
>
> David Thomson
>
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