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The snow angels/ice skating montage

posted 10 years ago by PrometheusTree64
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I can't deny LOVE STORY is pretty bad. Ali's bad, the script is mediocre. Blah-blah-blah, it's all true.

But the era is the key to its appeal and perhaps it helps if one was alive at (and remembers) that time.

The snow scene essentially saves the film --- largely because it evokes the lost, bittersweet, melancholy mood at the cusp of the '60s and '70s (much as the urban street montage sequences in MIDNIGHT COWBOY or the first season opening theme of THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW did and do, or the entire film of HAROLD & MAUDE).

This is the way it actually felt to be alive in the world at that precise moment in time.

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The most profound of sin is tragedy unremembered.

[–] DCJerzeygrl 9 years ago

I agree! the movie is watchable bcuz of it

[–] PrometheusTree64 9 years ago

Yes, it's the silent (well, dialogue-free) centerpiece of the film.

And the heartbroken mood of these montage sequences captured -- by intention or not -- a moment in time when life on earth, however briefly, really felt that way.

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LBJ's mistress on JFK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcXeutDmuRA

[–] TheAcadian 9 years ago

Ahhh...I agree - a perfect example of the last year of the decade called The Sixties.

[–] mariadarling 9 years ago

I really enjoyed your comment. I was born in 1968 so I don't remember what you explained but I did notice that even though the late 60's were turbulent, in the movie life still seemed simpler. In one scene, there was a bus with an Admiral appliance advertisement on the side. Admiral appliances? When's the last time anyone saw an Admiral anything?? It struck me as buttersweet as well.