A Way of Escape
It is accepted, I think, by most people that the best thing the cinema can do for flesh and blood just now is to give it an hour or two of escape from its troubles, writes C. A. Lejeune in the Observer. That is not a confession of cowardice. It is a mere hardheaded application of mental dietetics. We have got to get our minds off things if we are to grapple them again with greater vigour. There is a certain school of thought that believes we must have comedy at any price. I do uot hold .with that school. Good comedy is good at any time, but bad comedy seems to me just now mcye horrible than ever. I believe—and I have found many people who agree with me —that the most helpful films to-day are those that compel-your interest in the lives and problems of other people—real people . . . human people. . people likeable, pitiable or convincing enough to persuade you that, somewhere, in some parallel dimension, there is a world of drama urgent as your own.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23761, 14 September 1940, Page 7 (Supplement)
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