Get ready for 2 hours of drinking, bull fights, and self regret. The movie stars Tyrone Power as Jake Barnes. He is a newspaper man in Paris after WWI. He really only wants to be left alone, but people keep pulling him back in. Ava Gardner, Lady Brett Ashley mainly does just that, the two were in love, but because of a war injury that has left him impotent they cannot get the relationship going. Which is where the drinking comes in.
All of the characters have been wounded somehow by the war, and wish to drown themselves in one way or another. Jake is taking a vacation in Spain, down time, just to fish and watch the bull fights. But it all comes down around him, his plans unraveling before him. All he wants is to be left alone, but in the end he invites everything that’s happened to him on himself.
This movie, is an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s book, and is done true to it. We (my wife and I) used so many clichés while watching this movie, She’s not that into you, He’s not that into you, telling Jake to just run but that’s something we have that they didn’t. Knowledge of dysfunction. Still it is a movie, a pretty good one, and you could say you read Hemingway in 2 hours.
2 comments:
They made us read that book in high school...I can admit now that I read the Cliff Notes, the first chapter, a chapter in the middle and the last 2 chapters! LOL
I read The Old Man and the Sea. Still you pretty much got the story? Yes?
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