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Sam and Frodo were taken to Boromir's younger brother Faramir (David Wenham), a captain in the Ithelien Rangers in the land of Gondor - "the last free kingdom of Men" that was threatened by Sauron.In this pre-Code romantic drama about an obsessive, manipulative romance of a cheating female with a male benefactor in "bondage" to her, there were issues of promiscuity, adultery, a birth out-of-wedlock, naked drawings, a mutually-destructive relationship, and retributive death from TB/syphilis during prostitution...What do they feed you, all you men who are in Pittsburgh?Sean: Steel...Steel and pig iron furnaces so hot a man forgets his fear of hell.When you're hard enough, tough enough, other things, other things Michaeleen.Father Lonergan, who is afoot on the winding road and meets them, narrates: "Now then, here comes myself....You used to believe that a single kiss could solve everything." As she was leaving, she abruptly turned and kissed Shrek, but then wiped off her mouth.The kiss was ineffective to rescue everyone - because it wasn't really "true love's kiss." Fiona had become disillusioned over the years waiting for a true love "that never came" in the miserable tower of the dragon's keep ("It's all just a big fairy tale").