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Tom Turner (388 KP) rated Childhood's End in Books

May 16, 2021  
Childhood's End
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke | 1953
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
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This is my first classic science fiction read, and I'm just confused. I am not sure whether that confusion will dissipate when I absorb the story over time, or whether I'm just going to stay confused! This story did not go in the direction i expected at all, and though that's not a bar thing by any means, it's frustrated me, as I kind of feel disoriented by where we got to. Saying all this, sometimes you read something and you understand is greatness, but you just don't think it works for you, or maybe I'm just a bit slow in understanding.
  
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Christopher Hobbs recommended Children of Paradise (1945) in Movies (curated)

 
Children of Paradise (1945)
Children of Paradise (1945)
1945 |
(0 Ratings)
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"The title of the film refers to “the gods”—in French, le paradis—that upper gallery in a theater where the seats are cheap and the audience boisterous. Throughout the film, we are the audience watching parallel stories in which the world of the stage, presented largely in mime, mirrors the “real-life” setting, itself of course a fiction shown on the screen. Through the obvious theatricality of the stage and the far subtler theatricality of the “real” story, we follow a tale of love, loss, and revenge straight from late nineteenth-century French literature but reinvigorated by the magic of film."

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