The Crying Game

The Crying Game (1992) was a stirring if somewhat histrionic title for a movie. It's right up there with Brief Encounter (1945) where Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson squeeze every drop of melodrama out of a relationship predicated on impossibility. Oh for the romantic agony! One is wistful for the artworks that provided an outpouring of emotion which made one's glass feel half full if only for the 1:09 minutes that the film lasted. Escape indeed, but in a tone poem full of settings, color and mood The Go-Between, with the Harold Pinter script of the L. P. Hartley novel, was another memorably moving title. Room at the Top (1959),The L-Shaped Room (1962) and Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) pulled at the heartstrings. They don't make 'em like that anymore. What's even more interesting is that the tonic of escape from depressing everyday life was just that--another dose of depression and sadness. Now what are the emotions from which Gen X seeks to free themselves and what are the vehicles?

and read "The Findings" by Francis Levy, Evergreen Review