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- <text id=92TT0216>
- <title>
- Jan. 27, 1992: View Points:Cinema
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 27, 1992 Is Bill Clinton For Real?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- VIEW POINTS, Page 67
- CINEMA
- Learning to Accept History
- </hdr><body>
- <p> In Rhapsody In August, three generations of a Japanese family
- contemplate a great and terrible event, the bombing of
- Nagasaki. But the milieu director Akira Kurosawa creates for
- their deliberations is small and serene: a farm where a
- grandmother, who witnessed the blast from afar and lost her
- husband in it, gently and indirectly informs her grandchildren
- about the past. And about the proper way to confront it--with
- calm, unblinking acceptance. This is a part of their education
- their parents have neglected. For the middle generation, seeking
- economic advantage, especially with a branch of the family that
- has immigrated to the U.S. and prospered, has preferred to deny
- history's impact on their lives. It is touching to watch a bond
- being created between wise age and innocent youth and wonderful
- to experience the grace of Kurosa Wa's art as he explores, with
- a new simplicity, one of his preoccupying themes: man's
- inability to control, or even think coherently about, the mighty
- historical forces he so often and carelessly unleashes.
- </p>
- <p>By Richard Schickel.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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