For some reason I misremembered Cheyenne’s two lines at the end about touching Jill’s ass as part of a running “joke” through the whole movie of people groping her; glad I was (sort of) wrong on that account.
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Meet Me in St. Louis 1944
Every conflict is resolved in a matter of minutes, but at least the Trolley Song is good.
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La Roue 1923
A fantastic blending of myths. Sisif (Sisyphus) bringing the train up and down the mountain, day after day; blinded like Oedipus for the crime of incest. Two myths that emphasize fate. A fate created in an instant when Sisif takes Norma as his own child; a fate approached unwaveringly, bound like the trains to their tracks.
Albert Camus would write in 1942 on Sisyphus and the absurdity of human existence: “one must imagine Sisyphus happy.” Sisif cannot bear to see…
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