3 Pauline Kael Quotes on Morality

Pauline Kael quotes on morality

43. Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace - made me expect the worst.

44. What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.

46. If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.