Louis Malle: Classic or Dud, Search and Destroy

Do you think that Bruce Springsteen based the song "Atlantic City" on Louis Malle's film of the same name? There's a part where a hippie girl's drug dealer boyfriend is killed by thugs, and she comforts herself about his death by talking about reincarnation, convincing herself that he will come back in another form... it reminds me of Springsteen's line, "Everything that dies, someday comes back," as a way for the character in the song to reassure his girlfriend that if he dies doing his "favor" for someone, that it will be okay.

hm, wiki sez theyre unrelated but there are certainly similarities

i thought the film was really great. love the gradual development of lancasters character & how we're meted out info abt his past. & sarandon is a nice counterpart, sortof the opposite personality of his in a lotta ways

the way lydia's blouse matches the lining to her jacket & the way she shrugs it on killed me.

^ this was incredible omg

felt somewhat analogous to the dardennes 2 days 1 night imo w/ alain as a more hopeless detestable figure than cotillard