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THE ADULT AND THE CINEMA diet each other too much. I do not mean to be heroic, but if I had been in Bette Davis's position in Dark Victory, I would not have let the man I love marry me. I think it unfair to both of them. The same in Love Story.
Films generally have a happy ending. Life doesn't always.Therefore I will not let a film influence me in my dicisions (decisions). Behaviour yes, because we all like to be something we aren't. Many films are about the eighteenth and nineteenth centuary (century), when manners and the way of life were different. We cannot copy their way of living but we can benifit (benefit) from their good points. When I lost someone very dear to me and I felt the most miserable person in the world, I thought of some of the courageous people I had seen on the screen, and I felt better. I thought of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, and all she went through. And I thought of the courage of the soldiers in The Way Ahead. They suffered much more than I did but they never lost face.
If I was ever enclined (inclined) to do anything really wicked, or perhaps contemplated murdering someone (which I certainly do not) I should be influenced by some of the really good thrillers I have seen on the screen. There it has been rubbed in that Crime does not pay. Not even very cleverly concealed crime as in Double Indemnity.
'We should learn by other people's mistakes' is a well known saying, and so I let the screen influence me in some ways. If a person does something wrong in a film, I should not put my head in the fire by making the same mistake. Age — 17 years. Profession — Junior Clerk. Nationality — British
(London). Sex — Female. Profession of Father — Furrier.
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I am writing to answer your questions as I have found that films in certain ways do affect me, as it decides me in fashion but to me love and divorce are yet to seem very unreal on the screen. One film decided me however, it was the film Lady in the Dark wherein Ginger Rogers disliked certain things for unknown reasons and dreamed of things she longed to do and dared not until explained by a doctor which were childhood memories grown into an inferiority complex it was like seeing my own thoughts and fears on the screen although somewhat varied, when I had seen this film I had a good laugh at myself for these things now seem stupid and I think there was really nothing for Ginger Rogers to worry about,
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