Comments on: KRAMER VS KRAMER http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2010/02/10/kramer-vs-kramer/ What we're watching and how it measures up in Contour Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Nick http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2010/02/10/kramer-vs-kramer/comment-page-1/#comment-884 Nick Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:30:16 +0000 http://contour-at-the-movies.com/?p=1781#comment-884 Great, David! Even the Beatles knew that the girl in "She's Leaving Home" had to LEAVE home. And consider the Beatles themselves - by the time they were 30, they'd formed, "conquered the world," and broken up. :-) Great, David! Even the Beatles knew that the girl in “She’s Leaving Home” had to LEAVE home. And consider the Beatles themselves – by the time they were 30, they’d formed, “conquered the world,” and broken up. :-)

]]> By: David Goulet http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2010/02/10/kramer-vs-kramer/comment-page-1/#comment-879 David Goulet Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:45:32 +0000 http://contour-at-the-movies.com/?p=1781#comment-879 "A rite of passage story" -- that's a brilliant observation, Nick. I wonder with our increasingly Peter Pan pop culture what will pass as a rite of passage in another decade? Junior finally moves out of the house at age 40, Becky gets married at 45. I'm reminded how Alexander the Great had conquered his world at age 28. Today he'd still be doing sprink break in Tijuana. “A rite of passage story” — that’s a brilliant observation, Nick. I wonder with our increasingly Peter Pan pop culture what will pass as a rite of passage in another decade? Junior finally moves out of the house at age 40, Becky gets married at 45.

I’m reminded how Alexander the Great had conquered his world at age 28. Today he’d still be doing sprink break in Tijuana.

]]> By: Nick http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2010/02/10/kramer-vs-kramer/comment-page-1/#comment-878 Nick Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:36:56 +0000 http://contour-at-the-movies.com/?p=1781#comment-878 And yet it's a film that has deep relevance to our culture, I think. Kramer seemed to have his priorities flipped - in the beginning Kramer uses his family as a means to support his job. The job, Kramer believes, is his primary responsibility as a husband and father. After his wife leaves him, little Kramer becomes an adversary to big Kramer's priorities. Big Kramer is totally out of his element when it comes to being a husband and a parent, as witnessed in the french toast scene. And that's one reason why he resists change so strongly. Notice how relaxed Kramer shows himself to be in the office, before he gets fired. Contrast that to his terror of the kitchen. Little Kramer impacts him at his most basic level - and in the end i think that big Kramer comes to see that a job is not so much about self-fulfillment as it is the means by which one is able to attend to the most important part of being a "grown up" - raising children, being an available husband and father. In a sense this film might be a sort of rite of passage story. And yet it’s a film that has deep relevance to our culture, I think. Kramer seemed to have his priorities flipped – in the beginning Kramer uses his family as a means to support his job. The job, Kramer believes, is his primary responsibility as a husband and father. After his wife leaves him, little Kramer becomes an adversary to big Kramer’s priorities. Big Kramer is totally out of his element when it comes to being a husband and a parent, as witnessed in the french toast scene. And that’s one reason why he resists change so strongly. Notice how relaxed Kramer shows himself to be in the office, before he gets fired. Contrast that to his terror of the kitchen. Little Kramer impacts him at his most basic level – and in the end i think that big Kramer comes to see that a job is not so much about self-fulfillment as it is the means by which one is able to attend to the most important part of being a “grown up” – raising children, being an available husband and father. In a sense this film might be a sort of rite of passage story.

]]> By: David Goulet http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2010/02/10/kramer-vs-kramer/comment-page-1/#comment-872 David Goulet Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:45:55 +0000 http://contour-at-the-movies.com/?p=1781#comment-872 Totally agree Dan. Not a film I'd have any intitial interest in, but the storytelling is so well done it hooks you in bigtime. To get a story noticed like this today it would have to be pitched: "It's Kramer vs Kramer, but with vampires." Totally agree Dan. Not a film I’d have any intitial interest in, but the storytelling is so well done it hooks you in bigtime. To get a story noticed like this today it would have to be pitched: “It’s Kramer vs Kramer, but with vampires.”

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