Just watched Redford's Three Days of the Condor for the first time...

[GetRidOfThem]

...Powerful movie. What I liked the most was the ending: His final gun is not the 45 that he collected from the murdered gatekeeper, but the Grey Lady. How fitting to today's rants. Who says the institutional checks and balances that keep us alive are with the Government? An active, free press is just as important!

[grantcart]

1. after 30 years I always check to see if the postman is wearing tennis shoes.

[LAS14]

2. What a coincidence. My hubby and I have seen it twice before...

... and last night watched it for the third time from Netflix. One of the gifts of age is that we didn't remember a single thing except the few opening scenes. Just that it was a powerful, as you say, movie.

Let's hear it for the MSM! Much as they infuriated me during the campaign. We sure do need them, and thanks to the founding fathers for giving them a place in the constitution.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. The depiction of Redford's character kidnapping Fay Dunaway's character, and

essentially raping her, but she falls for him anyway - makes me utterly loathe this sexist movie.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. The "spyfucker" line always made me cringe n/t

[GetRidOfThem]

7. Yes, that aspect of the movie is deeply disturbing

There is an old fashioned sexism in the movie that is completely unacceptable. We discussed this as it was playing out last night. In a way it is a period piece-today that story would never fly in the theatre.

I say that is part of the history, and we have come a long way before we elected Agent Orange as Grabber in Chief...

[LAS14]

8. Raping her???

I don't think so. This sort of attitude gives the women's movement a bad name.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

9. Yes. That's what I call what a man does to a woman after he abducts her, terrorizes her,

holds her against her will, and has sex with her. You don't? Fine. But don't then lecture ME about setting back the women's movement.

[LAS14]

10. It seemed very clear to me that the Redford character...

... would have backed off immediately had she shown the very tiniest bit of reluctance. Your attitude infantilizes women. If she wanted to have sex after being abducted, that was her business.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

11. It was not only not clear to me -- it obviously was not clear to the movie makers, either.

Because Redford's character was depicted treating her the way I described and she was then fine with having sex with her abductor. What I consider a completely sexist, misogynistic depiction of a female character, whose autonomy was completely subservient to the male who abducted her.

[LAS14]

12. I guess we must agree to disagree.

[WinkyDink]

13. Gee! An ambiguous character in a fictional movie! Who'da thunk?!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

14. There was nothing ambiguous about what happened to Fay Dunaway's character in that movie.

[eleny]

4. In the end he doesn't know if he can trust the Times, either

It's a chilling story.

[Iggo]

15. "What if they don't print it?"

Yoiks!

[SchrodingersCatbox]

6. Six Days of the Condor

By James Grady is the book it's based on. The story might not be as timely as the movie plot, but better IMO