Screen Savers Movies » The Train http://screensaversmovies.com 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery Mon, 21 May 2012 18:55:58 +0000 en hourly 1 The Train (1965) http://screensaversmovies.com/the-train-1965 http://screensaversmovies.com/the-train-1965#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:01:31 +0000 John DiLeo http://screensaversmovies.com/?p=169 The Train tells a humane, disturbing story, yet it leaves the viewer to decide what to make of what transpires. Can inanimate objects, however irreplaceable and valuable and beautiful, bear the cost of human life? How do you ask people to sacrifice their lives for pretty pictures? The French characters in The Train aren’t interested in the paintings’ financial or artistic worth but, rather, in the art’s representation of “the glory of France.” How does one distinguish between French masterpieces and France itself? Don’t, say, Manet and Matisse, define France to its populace and the world? The paintings are symbols of what the French are fighting for: to retain their national identity—their past, their pride, their very soul—from those who would pilfer it. The Train grapples with these issues without dispensing pat answers.

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]]> http://screensaversmovies.com/the-train-1965/feed 0 The Train (1965): The Art of War http://screensaversmovies.com/the-train-1965-the-art-of-war http://screensaversmovies.com/the-train-1965-the-art-of-war#comments Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:01:02 +0000 John DiLeo http://screensaversmovies.com/the-train-1965-the-art-of-war/ The Train tells a humane, disturbing story, yet it leaves the viewer to decide what to make of what transpires. Can inanimate objects, however irreplaceable and valuable and beautiful, bear the cost of human life? How do you ask people to sacrifice their lives for pretty pictures? The French characters in The Train aren’t interested in the paintings’ financial or artistic worth but, rather, in the art’s representation of “the glory of France.” How does one distinguish between French masterpieces and France itself? Don’t, say, Manet and Matisse, define France to its populace and the world? The paintings are symbols of what the French are fighting for: to retain their national identity—their past, their pride, their very soul—from those who would pilfer it. The Train grapples with these issues without dispensing pat answers.

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