So this was a little before my time, but can someone who was around at that time tell me, did people actually sit around and have those annoying philosophical discussions such as the one in this movie?
Whadda ya hear, whadda ya say!
yea,because the Internet wasn't around.
shareThose "philosophical discussions" (or "intellectual conversations") have nothing to do with those times (60's? 70's?). They instead have to do with the family being "upper class" and "cultured" (and a bit "snobbish"). There are some similar individuals in the circles of similar families nowadays.
("Philosophical discussions" _between_ what we'd now call "hippies" are a completely different, unrelated thing, more like "bull sessions on steroids". Such things aren't shown or even alluded to in this film. And they didn't sound much like that.)
IMHO, the parts of the movie that are tied to the context of that particular period of time are: 1) the extreme alienation of more than a few young people, and 2) blatant ruptures between young people and the families they grew up in.
Themes that are just as current now as they were then include: not really fitting anywhere even though one "knows" more than one class, and the idea that not loving anything has the effect of pronouncing a death sentence on oneself.
'Member, Bobby?
That little pussy cat you gave me?
Lol. One of the funniest scenes and lines. Bobby looked so annoyed with Rayette, and Carl looked so amused.
Dini
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Just saw this recently...again. Can't help but think how much of most of what happened on the island was just because Carl with a glib smile shut the door on Bobby when he was doing a practice piano thing with Catherine?
After that moment: Bobby goes into hot cock mode to bang his girl; destroy him in table-tennis and mock him in from of the sister that likes him. Bobby has some Rachmaninov verve!
Yeah they did happen. That was actually a good scene because what happened is usually what happens; one person will feel they're more informed or intelligent than the others and will force their opinion on the rest as fact. And usually at least one person will fight back and it turns into a negative, hostile experience...just as Susan Anspach's character said.
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