Possibly, I've been too hasty in revising my opinion of High Noon downward. It really seemed to connect with most of the students in this class, even though it's in b&w and is, in some ways, old-fashioned. They liked the formality of its style and the clarity of the action scenes (in contrast to the incoherent action scenes in some films today). Plus, the film's me-against-the-world theme may have spoken to the twenty-something psyche. Anyway, I like High Noon better after hearing the discussion and reading the students' papers. Once again, I somehow seem to have learned something.
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