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..Good Morning Friends,
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today is Wednesday April 14, 2010
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Back to the grindstone friends. That's right, I have to slog it out for three days before I can get some more R & R. And, that means back to the racing game on Saturday. But, then we have to earn our rewards now don't we? I told you guys that I bought a few DVD's from Bianca Amor's a few days ago. Well, I am wading my way through them and I am on number three right now. I finished watching the end of Fort Apache - The Bronx just last night. This is the one starring Paul Newman as a New York City cop. He is working in a rather tough neighbourhood and during the course of his duties runs into a nurse who also works in the neighbourhood. So, he gets it on with this nurse and he falls in love with her. Well, I am sure that most of you can appreciate my attraction to the movie based on this one item alone. That's right, our hero falls in love with a nurse. So, Paul Newman, whose name is Murphy in the film gets to experience a loving relationship with this nurse. It started off as a mutually playful association and you can tell that both really like each other. This is probably one of the better moments of the film, this loving and happy relationship, that is. But, this being the Bronx and the storehouse of violence based on drugs and all manner of crime, the relationship of Officer Murphy and his nurse girlfriend comes to an abrupt end. Seems like his girlfriend, the nurse, was taking crack cocaine and later on in the movies she overdoses from this drug. Her supplier did her in. This is kind of a turning point for me in the film when I discover that this lover of Officer Murphy is seemingly just another resident of the Bronx and caught up in its ways. I was expecting much more from this character actually since she comes across as one who is smart enough and strong enough to not get sucked into the environment that she is working in. She is supposed to be fixing these people up and setting some kind of an example for the people who live there. Kind of like Paul Newman as Officer Murphy is supposed to be. But, even Officer Murphy is acting like a police officer and for a time is part of a conspiracy of silence since he will not report the fact that he saw two of his comrades literally kill a resident of the neighbourhood by throwing him off a building. And, that is how policemen are supposed to act in the Bronx and any tough neighbourhood I suppose. Cops protect one another. But, after the nurse dies from the overdose that is when Officer Murphy does the right thing and turns in the officers. He has quit becoming a cop and decides to move on. A really weird scene occurs when Newman enters the hospital where the nurse works and discovers her dead. This is after the hospital was experiencing a hostage taking by some of the local bad guys. Anyhow, the police take out the bad guys and the police enter the building and free the hostages. This is when Newman discovers his dead nurse. He doesn't want to believe that she is dead. He picks up her dead body and holds her tightly trying to bring her back to life. He doesn't accept her death. And, that is when I knew friends that I could really relate to this film. He lost his loved one, the nurse. But, in the end, Officer Murphy does the right thing. And, the death of a loved one made him do that. Now, if life could be that simple eh friends?
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