Wednesday, March 12, 2014

One, Two, Three

This little blog is about soda can collecting and its peripheries.  What does "peripheries" mean?  I dunno, really.  Perhaps Billy Wilder's movie One, Two, Three helps explain.  Released in 1961, it's a jolly comedy with a little romance. It's also about Coca-Cola.

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See, the protagonist is a Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin who is aiming to introduce Coca-Cola to the Soviet Union.  Things become derailed when he needs to babysit the 17 year-old daughter of his boss in Berlin, and she falls in love with a communist.  Coca-Cola becomes a thinly veiled metaphor throughout the film for all stuff American.  I watched it on Netflix and it was an evening well spent.  Perhaps you should buy a bottle of Coke and do so too.

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