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- From: rhayden@oracle.com (Ronald Hayden)
- Subject: Re: The Crying Game (AGAIN..) NO SPOILERS.
- In-Reply-To: Minotaur@cup.portal.com's message of 13 Jan 93 06:07:41 GMT
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- In article <73479@cup.portal.com> Minotaur@cup.portal.com (A Frank Swilling) writes:
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- I also thought it was a good, but not great, movie. What kept it
- from being great (IMO) is that there was a fundamental logic flaw:
- if the hero was so essentially moral as he proved to be, what was
- he doing mixed up with the IRA in the first place?
-
- I'm told that it's not uncommon for people to get involved in the IRA
- as young and naive people because it's the cool thing to do, rather
- than for any particular ideological reason.
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