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… it wasn’t.” The film can follow without any change … angry
Catrin leaves and throws away her ring to the dustbin.
-* Czech writer Karel Čapek once wrote an essay about when reading
- a story he has always trouble to decide whether the death in
- the film is rising from the internal necessity of the plot, or
- whether the author just didn’t know what to do. I am really
- afraid that the Tom’s death is from the second category, mortem
- ex machina. The author wanted tear-jerking finale, so he just
- got rid of the main lover. And of course, if Tom should be got
- rid off, then a thousand-ponder would work much better, than
+* Czech writer Karel Čapek once wrote an essay, how he was always
+ feeling uncertain whether a death in a story is rising from
+ the internal necessity of the plot, or whether the author just
+ didn’t know what to do with a character. I am really afraid
+ that the Tom’s death is from the second category, *mortem ex
+ machina*. The author wanted tear-jerking finale, so he just
+ got rid of the main lover. And of course, if Tom should be
+ eliminated, then a thousand-ponder would work much better, than
random stage piece.
.. _`Their Finest`: