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Spencer Hines <poguemidden@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> typed:
| Deucedly Perceptive.
|
| DSH
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| 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
| worships 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.
Many women the world over fell in love with Mussolini. My grandfather
told
me that Il Duce had a jaw like Jack Sharkey and often compared it to a
large
vice he had in his workshop.
|
| The woman is truly a parent's worst nightmare. Maggie Smith
| excellently portrays 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.
Mussolini ran a newspaper as I recall. He was not that different than
Rupert Murdoch, how many women find Murdoch attractive. Mussolini had is
pick of Italian women and that is measure. Mussolini wouldn't have ridden
a
pig ugly hatchet face like Thatcher into battle. Not even Monica Lewinski
for that matter.
|
| Nothing could be further from the truth. The masses are of secondary
| importance. Mussolini, Castro, Stalin, and other ruthless thugs find
| it initially necessary to seduce middle class, pseudo-intellectuals
| like Miss Jean Brodie.
Castro is no thug but the Kennedy's were out and out shitheel cowsuns.
Count Baldoni
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