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Chariots Of Fire

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I’m sure I haven’t seen this since I was a kid. The first reimpression is they don’t play the Vangelis song nearly as much as I might have remembered/expected.

Secondly I thought what an odd duck of a movie. Well done mind you and full of the expected athletic struggle and triumph to be expected. But the rivalry set up between the two main characters leads to neither a final show down nor any reconciliation as one might expect.

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And strangely given how much of its themes are about insider/outsider status with its two parallel characters being a child of Jewish refugees and an Evangelical Scot in England, it feels oddly ambivalent about authority. It can be pretty explicit that insider authority types (Cambridge Dons, Royals, etc) are wrong and out of line. But there’s no real challenge to them at all. But maybe that’s too much for a movie about people who run fast.

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