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Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman takes Charlie and the colonel and places them in a combination of two reliable genres. There's the coming-of-age formula, in which an older man teaches a younger one the ropes. It's crossed here with the prep school movie, which from A Separate Peace through If, Taps, Dead Poets Society and True Colors, has always involved a misfit who learns to stand up for what he believes in. The two genres make a good fit in Scent of a Woman, maybe because the one thing Charlie needs in school is a role model, and the one thing the colonel has always known how to do is provide one. (it) |
