Bernard is best known for the devestating war film Wooden Crosses but also filmed one of the great versions of Hugo's Les Miserables. I will leave it to better gender theorists than me to decide whether women take a step forward or back in Anne Marie. As introduced to us among the engineers, she is just a number. Oh, but what a number! The pilots Thinker, Boxer, Lover, Farmer, and Detective call for the neck of the engineer whose error nearly cost Thinker's life. Anne Marie parlays her error without too much batting of the eyes into a chance to learn to pilot. Are we saying she made a bad engineer?
Will Anne Marie fly through the glass ceiling? Is the sheep in the box alive or dead? To some extent this film is still about which man Anne Marie will end up with. My money is on the Inventor.
Will Anne Marie fly through the glass ceiling? Is the sheep in the box alive or dead? To some extent this film is still about which man Anne Marie will end up with. My money is on the Inventor.
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