Last night I showed my students Bill Forsyth's Local Hero. I told them it was one of my favorite films of all-time and that it was the movie that introduced me to the beauty of independent cinema, mainly because it clearly didn't care what the audience thought, in a formulaic fashion, should happen next. Sadly, the conversation wasn't as rich as I had hoped, mainly because they didn't do the assigned readings on the Relational and Moral self (sigh); pearls, swine, yadda yadda. It reminded me of what a crush I had on the character of Stella Urquhart, played wonderfully by Jennifer Black. There are scenes in movies wherein I could imagine myself living, and running the hotel with Stella in Ferness is probably first amongst them. "I'll be a good Gordon, Gordon."
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