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All letters submitted to the GETTYSBURGIAN for publica tion must be accompanied by the author’s name. The editor will withhold the name upon request. ANSWER TO MOMUS Dear Editor: I have just finished reading the review of the picture ‘Two Women.’’ May I suggest a dif ferent interpretation, one which I feel is more valid. “Two Women” is not, to my mind, the heroine-centered piece you say. In a long line of estab lished tradition, it is the Christ Theme so recurrent in Italian Art films. Miguel, your ‘disillusioned in tellectual student,”’ is in fact the pathetic and meek, yet thunder ing-when-righteous Christ. The war is, indeed, life and the two women’s attempt to escape a natural means to the end moral of the film. To begin at the beginning, the mother is the “average sinner ’ and the daughter a ‘‘true-believer by-plan.”” The overfed, petty fools who comprise a certain element of the refugees are a type too com mon in our world: ‘‘average-true believer-by-plan-sinners.”” The key theme is that Miguel runs contrary to both the mother and daughter but the girl “comes around” faster due to that gra cious, sometimes tedious, inno cence of youth. We can see a con flict of these views, one new, the other old, in the scene of the ar gument over returning to Rome; the daughter wishes to follow Mi guel but the mother desires to return so to speak, to the ‘‘old ways.” In the rape sequence we have a beautiful bit of Christian soul biting; the forces of evil strike and there is no succor. Why? That requires a temperate answer; probably it is due to both the rejection of Miguel (who loved the sinner) and the related, de ceptively simple view that his beliefs were incomprehensible and obstructive to material gain in their attainment. Continuing, the girl, a highly impressionable agent at the time of the rape, goes bad when she has tasted sin. The mother grieves, recognizing his true worth, at Miguel’s death and when the daughter is informed of the same we see a superb enactment of living salvation. These are only a few of the nuances of that film, there are many, many more; each char acter represents something in some way that is common to the Christ Theme. However our views may differ, I think we agree that the picture was a stimulating venture into men’s minds. Jackson C. Frank could at least give a good ac count of itself on the field. Where does the fault lie? We believe that the talents of the team are not being utilized to their fullest extent. The offensive system which Gettysburg uses appears un imaginative, uninteresting, and wastes the ability present on our team. Worse yet, the offensive plays are easily diagnosed; after all, most defensive units have seen them again and again in high school. We are a member of the University Division of the M.A.C.; are we to become the patsies of this League? Let's play college football, Coach! “Concerned fans”
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Gettysburg Weekly Gettysburgian
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Oct 06, 1961
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