Erik is absolutely a survivor, I agree, but he's never going to "get over" the Holocaust precisely because he is a survivor; his whole self was shaped by persecution and survival, and when he says "peace was never an option" that goes a whole lot deeper than Charles understands.
Yes, exactly.
XMFC is a little too insta-angst for me, what with the love at first sight, the whirlwind romance, the bitter breakup a few weeks (?) later.
I stand by whoever said that they should have made two movies out of XMFC. Fwiw, historically, there was an interval of six months between the U.S. putting missiles in Turkey in April '62 and the Thirteen Days in October, and I've seen some fic that uses that to good advantage, but the movie itself blows right past it.
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Yes, exactly.
XMFC is a little too insta-angst for me, what with the love at first sight, the whirlwind romance, the bitter breakup a few weeks (?) later.
I stand by whoever said that they should have made two movies out of XMFC. Fwiw, historically, there was an interval of six months between the U.S. putting missiles in Turkey in April '62 and the Thirteen Days in October, and I've seen some fic that uses that to good advantage, but the movie itself blows right past it.
It is so fucking sad, seriously.