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It's been a while since I've seen it but I didn't get that impression. His job was to make sure she quit, not to make sure she became a good navy seal. I think he was torn between training her and breaking her. I think he tried to instigate the rape scene as the final straw that broke the camel's back but it backfired because his men refused to do it. I think he was also trying to break the connection she was trying to develop with her fellow students which also backfired.

As a side note, I've haven't heard much about men being raped in war situations (although it is certainly possible) but there are always women being raped; almost incessantly.

Are you sure? I got the impression he was treating her fairly up until then - not trying to make her quit but not making it easy on her either. And the torture of the male teammate wouldn't have to do with that ...

I'll have to watch it again but I was pretty sure there was a conversation with a superior in which he was ordered to get rid of her by any means necessary.

I liked the one read by Mathew in Four Weddings and a Funeral at his lover's funeral:

"He was my north, my south, my east and west,
My working week and Sunday rest
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song
I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong."


However, I believe that a true love never dies, it just goes to a quieter place. And, although Mathew was gay, I believe this poem could be for any relationship type.

"Beowulf" is honestly one of my favourite poems of all time. Granted in Old English it's clunky to read, but Seamus Heaney's translation is remarkable. I'm considering that is more a movie based on a poem, at that.

Else, 'Funeral Blues' by Auden mentioned by Phyllis above is definitely one of my most favourite rendered poems on film. No matter how many times I watch that movie, Matthews' delivery of it reduces me to a quivering tearlump.

Me too -- this was the first movie-poem that came to mind, in fact.

Also, at least a few of Shakespeare's sonnets were read in Sense and Sensibility -- not sure which sonnets exactly, though. Not ones that I recognized (though I'm not really an expert on the Sonnets).

Good one!

'Let not the marriage of true minds, admit impediment'.

Love that.

I was hoping that more of Tolkien's poetry would have made it into the LOTR movies, extended DVDs of course, where they had the room for it. But i can't really complain, the movies were so wonderful.

Doesn't Aragorn mumble a bit of verse in the FOTR?

Oh, and Theoden has his big poetry scene as well in TT before the Battle of Helm's Deep.

I completely agree with you regarding Tolkien. I wrinkled that Gollum's sing-songy poems were completely eradicated from the film - a real shame IMO.

Hopefully they'll utilize those more in 'The Hobbit'. One can dream, anyway.