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Actors: Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Shining Through |
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Melanie Griffith plays Linda Vess, a Jewish/Irish secretary in 1940 who finds herself working for a spy. She gets herself involved in the "action" and convinces her boss, Ed( Michael Douglas), a Colonel in American Intelligence, to send her to Germany to get the information he needs. While there she tries to track down her Jewish relatives, gather the information requested and get out of Germany alive.
--Brandy Todd, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Shining Through |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
Romance
Yes
The terrorist enemy is...
- racists/kkk/nazis
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Main Adversary
Identity:
- fight for survival
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Setting
United States
Yes
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- moving train
- fort/military installation
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- 2
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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