I sat down with La Sanseverina as she was watching a British romantic comedy on the teevee and made some sort of mildly snide remark about her sometime plebian taste.
“If it were black and white and in Hungarian, you’d think it was a masterpiece,” she said
The milieu was lower-middle class Manchester (or some such industrial wasteland.) The cause of the central estrangement in the boy-meets-, -loses-, -wins back-girl plot was “the boy’s” fanatic attachment to a local football team. Hmmmm.
After watching for a few minutes I realized that La Sanseverina was correct. If the movie – same plot, same characters, same dialogue – had been had been black and white, set in Budapest, and with English subtitles, I would have seen it as a serious effort in Eastern Europe proletarian cinema.
What a snob!
“If it were black and white and in Hungarian, you’d think it was a masterpiece,” she said
The milieu was lower-middle class Manchester (or some such industrial wasteland.) The cause of the central estrangement in the boy-meets-, -loses-, -wins back-girl plot was “the boy’s” fanatic attachment to a local football team. Hmmmm.
After watching for a few minutes I realized that La Sanseverina was correct. If the movie – same plot, same characters, same dialogue – had been had been black and white, set in Budapest, and with English subtitles, I would have seen it as a serious effort in Eastern Europe proletarian cinema.
What a snob!
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