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| | John Crowley Little and Big |
 | | This was a movie like a novel, repetitious rather than dramatic, building effects and characters slowly, the viewer unabe to guess what will come next, no bad guys or good guys. |
 | | The slightly sidewise or skew-whiff allusion to Franklin Roosevelt's 1940 promotion of freedoms that the democracies of the world acting in concert should guarantee to all people -- freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom of religion, freedom of speech -- was intentional, i.e. |
 | | The greatest part of the pleasure of watching, say, a Jane Austen movie, or Brideshead Revisited, or Les Liaisons Dangereuses, or any Forster novel or James novel in film, is watching the clothes and the scenery, the automobiles, the carriages, the houses and gardens. |
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