The Americans
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His Thanksgiving toast is Stan in a nutshell: earnest, principled, oblivious.
But arent those the things the pilgrims came here for in the first place?
There are wolves in the henhouse.
Is it enough to say that Stan is simply bad at his job?
But Stan has been guilty of thinking too simply and trusting too easily.
(They want to look peaceful, says Dennis, But theyre really just trying to screw us.)
His job wiped out his first marriage.
His former lover, Nina, is dead.
His best friend is a Russian spy whos lived under his nose for years.
His current lover is probably a spy, and hes helping her get a job at the FBI.
Hes a good guy.
Hes opened up his heart and home, just as anyone would to stave off loneliness.
His decency is irrepressible.
To Elizabeth, hes chosen an arbitrary spot to draw the line.
But Rififi does an excellent job in pinpointing where theyre ultimately divided.
At the same time, hes committed to the marriage.
He doesnt want Elizabeth or Harvest to succeed in undermining the summit.
He does, however, want their marriage to have a future.
For now, hell live (or die) with the contradictions.
(Are youtryingto give me cancer?)
No one in Marietta, Georgia, is going toRififi.
(One of my formative moviegoing experiences was seeing Federico FellinisAmarcordat the High, in fact.)
If it leads back to the people responsible for killing them, then thatll be some sliver of justice.
Philip may be cranking up the country station, but his disillusionment with American capitalism is growing.
This leaves him in a neither-here-nor-there situation thats not unlike his partnership with Elizabeth.
