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Hannah 2022-01-17 08:02:49
I don’t really understand some of the expressions, and seeing the passages of masturbation makes me very...
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Lelah 2022-01-17 08:02:49
The film as a whole presents a faint sadness. The way the characters express their emotions is relatively restrained and lacks the perspective of recollection. The film version only tells the memories of the immoral summer that Eddie spent at Ted's house. It is still not as moving as the text. Irving is the most touching. The subtlety is to rationalize many unreasonable...
The Door in the Floor Comments
Extended Reading
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Ted Cole: [discussing Eddie's first story] Oh, its very heartfelt. Very personal. Well, its just a collection of personal anecdotes that don't really add up to much.
Eddie O'Hare: I was just trying to see if could write something that seemed true.
Ted Cole: Oh, it seems true. It just isn't very interesting. It sort of an emotional outburst, but it really isn't a story.
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Ted Cole: Everything in fiction is a tool: pain, betrayal, even death. These are, you know, these are like, uh, different colors on a painter's palette. You need to use them.
