A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean was nominated for The Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1977, and was adapted for the big screen – the film was directed by Robert Redford and it stars Bradd Pitt in a leading role – you find notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other relevant lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean was nominated for The Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1977, and was adapted for the big screen – the film was directed by Robert Redford and it stars Bradd Pitt in a leading role – you find notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other relevant lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

9 out of 10

 

I have written a note on A River Runs Through It https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-river-runs-through-it-based-on-story.html if in fact I do not have two reviews on this, and the present one would make it three…it does not matter, both the book and the motion picture are excellent and worth reading and watching

 

Paul Maclean is the rebellious young man, in the movie, Brad Pitt is charming as this endearing personage, who gets into trouble, but most often for the right reason: at this dance, he beats a fellow who was racist, insulted the Native American woman who was with him, and then he ‘got what he deserved’

Norman Maclean is Paul’s brother, and a more private man, the two get together very well, even if they are different – Norman falls in love with Jessie Burns, while his sibling seems to be more volatile, enjoying his freedom and appearing to be less inclined to settle down, marry, he is a reporter with some achievements

 

Paul has interviewed president Coolidge https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-how-of-happiness-by-sonja.html there is a Coolidge Effect in psychology and here is the anecdote – some one hundred years ago, the president went to visit this farm, with the first lady, who was a clever woman, unlike the present moron

The first lady sees this rooster who is on top of the hens very often and asks how often does he do that and the answer is some impressive number – I forgot, but it could be one hundred times per day – and the spouse wants this person to share the information with her husband, and the president has his own question

 

When he hears about the big number, he wants to know ‘is it always the same hen?’ and the answer is ‘no, it is always a different one’, and Coolidge tells them to inform his wife about this…ergo, we have this Coolidge Effect, I have encountered this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/choose-life-you-want-by-tal-ben-shahar.html

As the Honeymoon Effect, the notion that one can be married with Hale Berry – the example was given ten years ago maybe, when she was the number one most attractive woman, as designated by People, or some other such magazine – and still, after two years, one is tempted to try and change, not that this always happen

 

To avoid that, you could try and read The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work by John Gottman, the ultimate expert on relationships, a psychologist who has an accuracy rate witch is about ninety percent https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-seven-principles-of-making-marriage.html he knows which couples work, and which will not

 

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