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"A Single Man" (beware spoilers)
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on March 09, 2010, 04:31:40 am ---Most of the subject matter is very mature - depression, drinking, flirting, contemplation of suicide, teachers having personal relationships with students. It's a very grown up movie.
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All of this is included in The Catcher in the Rye, a book read by teens throughout the world, and a novel I was proud to give to both my son and my daughter when they were 14-15, in that range.
Teens should know about depression, because being a teen is pretty depressing sometimes. They should know about drinking, flirting, and all the rest of it, so they aren't knocked off their rockers when it happens.
louisev:
--- Quote from: Sason on March 09, 2010, 04:32:47 pm ---I can try to find some website where you can get information on how to do it, but I do think you need a little more details about her.
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I will try to dig some up from our genealogy research on the family side and correspond with you about it off this thread. thanks Sason!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 09, 2010, 09:59:07 pm ---All of this is included in The Catcher in the Rye, a book read by teens throughout the world, and a novel I was proud to give to both my son and my daughter when they were 14-15, in that range.
Teens should know about depression, because being a teen is pretty depressing sometimes. They should know about drinking, flirting, and all the rest of it, so they aren't knocked off their rockers when it happens.
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But don't you agree that there are some differences between a book that you give to your kids, and a movie that they might try to see without you?
For one thing, you already knew what was in Catcher in the Rye before you gave it to your kids. I'm sure most people couldn't say that about this movie. After all, you're a lot more culturally aware, FRiend Lee, than an awful lot of American parents.
Sason:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 09, 2010, 08:01:48 pm ---I'm quite aware of that. But Louise said her great-grandmother probably sailed from a Dutch port, not from Stockholm or Goteborg--so I would guess maybe from Rotterdam on the Rotterdam. And a year later, in 1917, Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare, the act that ultimately brought the U.S. into the war, after the sinking of the Lusitania.
So I still say Louisa Dahl was lucky to get out when she did. A year later she might have ended up on the bottom of the Atlantic.
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Rotterdam is a whole different thing. I thought you meant she was lucky to get out of Sweden, which didn't make much sense in the war-context.
Sason:
--- Quote from: louisev on March 09, 2010, 10:25:04 pm ---I will try to dig some up from our genealogy research on the family side and correspond with you about it off this thread. thanks Sason!
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You're welcome!
Just PM me, and I'll try to find something useful for you.
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