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S. team violates the Olympic ideal. Liddell appeals to the other side of the Thatcherist agenda. He is doubly an outsider, as a Scot and as a deeply religious man who places God above country. Hisfirstconflict is with his sister, who feels that training for the Olympics will interfere with his religious vocation and distract him from his goal of becoming a missionary in China. Later, he has to defend himself before the national Olympic committee when he decides not to compete in a race scheduled on Sunday.
Some critics were less convinced that the film presented a coherent vision. "31 Johnston refers to the gesture of Viscount Lindsey, who withdraws from his race so that Liddell can take his place, as the act of an aristocrat who recognizes the need for change, thereby demonstrating that "nationhood . . "32 There is little doubt that the resilience of the national character is one of the meanings of the film and, to the extent that this is so, it functions as a fantasy addressed to those who feared that things had changed to the point that national traditions had lost their meaning.
Corner concludes his analysis of Coalface and Housing Problems by suggest- The Magic Box: What Is British Cinema? "1^ Despite these tensions and contradictions, Grierson succeeded in convincing many influential critics that his project offered the best hope for British cinema. The novelist Graham Greene, writing as film critic for the Spectator, declared in 1935 that "the only important films being made in England today come from Mr. "14 The importance of "realism" as a defining feature of British cinema was established, and critical discourses about the national cinema continued to insist on the centrality of the realist tradition until alternative viewpoints began to emerge in the 1970s.