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David lean kevin brownlow5/22/2023 In The Sound Barrier (1952) they literally do, the air planes barely visible high up among the clouds a film sprung from Lean's love of those very air planes. Sometimes people just seem to disappear into the space in which they find themselves. Mrs Moore in A Passage to India might be the one who is most sensitive to this. There is an pantheistic touch to Lean's films, right from the start with In Which We Serve (1942) the trees, the moon, the canals, the desert, the jungle, the cliffs, even a train station, it all has some kind of force, some spirit in them which makes them come alive, to speak to the humans who are privileged enough to have the gift of communication. In Lean's films space is destiny, the environment in which you found yourself has an incredible power over you, it changes you and it decides your outcome. On the one hand they have little control over their feelings, the bewildering passions that consumed them, and on the other hand they have no control over space.
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