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| On Borrowed Time (Harold S. Bucquet, 1939) | |
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| The New Janitor | Aug 9 2015, 10:27 PM Post #1 |
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Mr Brink is the greatest screen embodiment of death I'm aware of - Seventh Seal would have been much improved if Bergman had stolen the character! Mr Brink visits a wholesome family, takes a few people through to the other side and then runs into Gramps. He can't handle the idea of dying and leaving his grandson to the care of the evil Aunt. Via some kind of magic and the necessities of the plot, Mr Brink gets stuck up a tree. It's a pretty strange film, and I'm not even sure it's that great. Barrymore is a bit of a ham and it could do with shave of the run time. But it does still get to me, and the creepy opening scenes are fantastic. In the end, we're taught to embrace death and trust him to take us off to MGM heaven. I'm not quite convinced by that, I'd probably have kept him up the tree. But the tears flow nonetheless. |
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