1941
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- funny
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / war, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Our read · 1941 (1979) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · war · ensemble entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of 1941
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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