A River
Runs Through It, based on the story by Norman Maclean
9.4 out of
10
Apart from
marvelous story by Norman Maclean and the charming performances of the lead
actors, it probably the spectacular, magnificent scenery of The Gallatin and
Boulder Rivers that make this motion picture such a pleasure to see…reminding
one of the more accomplished, classic and one of the Top 100 Movies,
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Indeed,
quite often this seems more like The Story of The River That Runs Through It,
in its majesty, emphasized by Reverend Maclean aka excellent Tom Skerritt, when
he explains to his two sons, Norman aka formidable Craig Sheffer and Paul aka
the recent Academy Award winner Brad Pitt, about the immemorial age of the
rocks, which sets him apart, for there are so many foolish fundamentalist evangelicals
who believe in the ‘literal’ word of the Bible, as creationists and maintain
that the world is only so young as the holy book says…they do other, more
damaging things, such as voting with an immense scoundrel.
Reverend Maclean
offers a very strict education to his children, teaching them parsimony…in one
amusing and relevant scene, one of them has a short story to write and he
presents it to his father, who keeps asking for the writing to be shorter and
then…to be thrown away…
Norman
spends five tears East, attending college, though to the dissatisfaction of his
father, he will have not made up his mind about what he wants to do, what his
calling might be, if it is teaching or something else…for this, he could
consult the online courses of Harvard professor Tal Ben-Shahar, who explains
that there are three domains, one of the things we like to do, another of the
activities we are good at and finally, the third contains what has meaning for
us and where these groups intersect we can find our calling…
As his
brother spends time in the East, Paul becomes very different, if not the
complete opposite of his sibling, involved as he is in gambling, accumulating
so much debt with the wrong people as to place his physical integrity, perhaps
even his life in danger, though he is otherwise a charming, brave, kind,
devoted young man and what is crucial for many of those who live in this small
town and similar places, he is an excellent fly fisherman…
One of the
mirthful passages takes place as Norman has to take his would be brother-in-law,
Neal Burns, fishing, together with Paul, but Neal is the extremely obnoxious
character, arrogant and infatuated with his supposed glamorous life in
California, who arrives late – though this appears to be anathema for those
that love this sport – in the company of Rawhide, a woman with an established reputation
in the community, both of them drunk.
If they are
initially infuriated with the attitude of this moron, they are greatly avenged
by the fact that the two fall asleep in the sun and get severely burnt…though
that attracts the wrath of the Burns family, when the prodigal son is returned
and Jessie Burns, the one that Norman loves; herself would pay him back…
As she has
to drive him back to town, for he has driven in their car, to brink the burnt
by the sun drunkard, they meet with an impassable obstacle on the road and thus
she decides with suicidal conviction to get on…the train lines and enter a
tunnel, where it was evidently impossible to tell – given that there were no
lights inside it at that time, at the beginning of the twentieth century – if a
train is coming to crush and destroy them…
The script
of the motion picture directed by Robert Redford and the story by Norman
Maclean are not very different and this is where I have written the note on the
original material:
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