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...advocate a return to the draft. Good. You have more courage than my political party, the Republicans. In spite of winning the campaign, the party stupidly blusters about a strong national defense policy, yet refuses to go along with conscription...
Throughout the film, there is a deliberate refusal to judge any of the characters in political terms. Truffaut is perhaps only interested in showing the real lives which existed in spite of the occupation. But this distant stance, this refusal to do more than hint at the dread, eventually condemns the film to the realm of the superficial. It is the equivalent of a period piece, a nice love story in an interesting time, and one leaves the film with nothing more than the memory of some beautiful visual scenes--something which seems superficial in the face of the subject...
When I went to her office, she greeted me with a big smile."You know," she said, "you made the highest mark on the verbal part of the examination." She was referring to the examination that the entire freshman class took upon entering the college. In spite of her smile, her eyes and tone of voice were saying, "How could this black-skinned girl score higher on the verbal than some of the students who've had more advantages than she? It must be some sort of fluke." I felt it, but I managed to smile my thanks...
Benchley: Look, John, please don't apologize to me. You're a shit and everyone knows you're a shit, and people ask you out in spite of it. It's nothing to apologize about...
...hurts to admit that the child is inaccessible to you. You're not only separated from her by forty years: you are hampered by your own unreliable memory. You abandoned the child, after all...Now, in spite of all impossibility, the adult wishes to make the child's acquaintance...