Pauline Kael Quotes on Morality
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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.
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What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
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If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.