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Article: Guilty innocence. (Film).(The Quiet American)(Movie Review)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- December 18, 2002
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INNOCENCE ALWAYS calls mutely for protection when we would do so much better to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost its bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm." So Graham Greene writes in The Quiet American, a novel that plumbs the moral dangers of innocence. That quality is embodied in the character of Pyle, an idealist in early-1950s Indochina who turns out to be a CIA operative working to help a ruthless general gain power. The Boston aristocrat Pyle sees the world in black and white, and the charismatic General The, with his Yankee alliances, as a good guy. When The's men bomb a milk bar, Pyle walks among the bodies of the dead ...
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