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    I immediately voted no on the film, not because I had any particular disliking of the film, but just that it wasn't one that has stuck with me. Then, I began to think about it and the impact the film had on not only French cinema, but many musicals. I went back and changed my vote to Yes. I feel like it's one of those prototypical canon films where it doesn't necessarily blow me away, but it is an essential foundation film for many that came after it.

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    I give it a big yes. It's a film that is as much about intuitive feelings and the strangeness of love rather than the reality of it. The characters are very much drawn in ways that are sometimes goofy or cartoonish or contradictory to real, rational people, but they are not meant to be grounded realistic people so much as they are avatars of the archetypes of big sweeping romantic characters. They also manage to undercut those archetypes through comedy and surprising moments of humanity. The film look mixed with the themes and tone and characters all just work for me. It's one of those movies that gives you permission to do something crazy and irrational like run away with it and fall in love.

     

    I also think t's a romance movie for people who don't love romance movies. I usually can't stand them, but this one just makes the whole notion of fairy tale-like love stories work for me.

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    Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches. The other has 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who’s ahead, who’s stronger. Well, that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and China are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable.

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