Themes
The film explores several themes also discussed on the television show.
- Towards the end of the trip, Red shows Harold a picture he carries in his wallet. Harold believes it is a picture of himself, until he turns it over and finds it was taken in 1953. He then realizes that Red looked exactly like Harold when he was Harold's age. Red credits his subsequent recovery to his friends' constant teasing, and says that's why he treats Harold the way he does.
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“In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shi’ite fundamentalists.”
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“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”
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