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A Place in the Sun (1951)
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An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy. |
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Viewing A Place in the Sun for the AFI Project
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Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here:http://pippin2010.filmaster.com/review/revisiting-psycho-for-the-afi-project/?preview
A Place in the Sun is on the following AFI lists:
The Original Top 100 (#92)
100 Years...100 Passions (#53)
A long time ago, in a head-space far away, I had this notion that I was going to voraciously read every "canonical" book/novel/great piece of literature ever produced throughout the world, including by American novelists and writers, though there are generally far fewer of so-called "great writers" from here in comparison, most likely due to the youth of this country. I digress. One book I tried to read, and, in fact, the last book I tried to read before I quit this goal in a fit of futility and discouragement was "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser. The reason I gave up on this project was because this book sapped all of my energy to go on. Seriously. In my mind, it is one of the most overblown pieces of writing--ever--painting the portrait of a largely melodramatic love story that, yes, tells the tragic tale of a man-boy who succumbs to the foolishness of his passions but also sort of smacks of self-important commentary about the pressure of expectations and the angst of youth in a largely verbose style. I know, I know...hello pot, meet kettle. You really would have to try to read this book, though, and at least I attempt to keep these reviews modestly entertaining. In the end, I admirably made it through the first 300 pages of this tome before I finally gave up in moderate disgust. This is a novel in which I could muster no appreciation, either in ...
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reviewed by Pippin2010 (Filmaster.com) on the 18th of October 2010
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All plot points are made with a sledgehammer