Imitation of Life Comments

  • Destin 2023-01-10 04:56:26

    The multiple conflicting plots collide, and the director's skill is too worthy of recognition. The "original sin" of being black is indeed a silent indictment of race. In the end, the mother used her death to free her daughter from her identity and emotionally bound...

  • Dolores 2023-01-05 23:44:15

    People in the spring breeze are puzzled, and people in the autumn rain are always...

  • Andreanne 2022-12-31 14:00:40

    Sek's three best films, Deep Lock, Bitter Rain, and Spring Breeze, I think they can form a trilogy. The colors gradually become simple, the social observation gradually deepens, and the quality is also higher and denser. Beach crowds are a microcosm of the diversity of recreation and recreation in postwar America, the accelerating pace of life, the rift between generations, and the conflict of races. ....

  • Julianne 2022-12-28 13:32:35

    It involves racial conflicts, educational concepts, parent-child relationships, and love concepts. Together, it is the whole life. The emotional handling is unexpectedly delicate and moving, although the final scene is not very well set, too formal, and a bit fake. In comparison, the first scene seems simple, but it is very natural. Recalling the entire movie, the gradually falling and piled gems in the entrance animation and the theme song "imitation of life" (lyrics) are all designed...

  • Jade 2022-12-25 14:12:16

    Douglas Sack loves this type of subject...

  • Arne 2022-12-19 12:14:59

    Time is the real protagonist in Sec's masterpiece, and everyone ends up acting as doubles for that protagonist. Like real life, these people live in the paradox of "Life and Death" and the "dichotomy" of ultimate loneliness and inevitable communication with others. This necessary communion with man is, in a religious context, Jesus' love for man. What is the example that Jesus left behind? Love turns out to be a self-education. Mu Xin emphasized the word "original". It turned out that everyone...

  • Ali 2022-12-13 22:02:38

    The mother drama, the juxtaposition of races, Laura and Sarah's "cannot be juxtaposed" effect, reflects the deep-rooted racial problem that one at least succeeds and the other is doomed to fail. The reconciliation of one pair is so swift and complete, the other can only Exchanging death for sex to resolve Sarah's rejection of her self-identity dooms all her struggles to be doomed to failure in a double sense, leaving me with a sad white mother and daughter whose lives are as false as their...

  • Myrtis 2022-12-03 16:28:05

    Much better than version...

  • Ryleigh 2022-11-28 23:00:37

    Handsome and beautiful, but not the same old Hollywood love story! Controversial...

  • Hubert 2022-11-26 01:38:17

    Although the connection between the two mothers and daughters is a bit far-fetched, the self-identification of the mixed-race girl in the film, as well as the positive image of black women's generosity and warmth, is definitely more moving and forward-looking than any of Sack's love...

Extended Reading

Imitation of Life quotes

  • Lora Meredith: Now, just a moment, young lady! It's only because of my ambition that you've had the best of everything. And that's a solid achievement that any mother can be proud of!

    Susie, age 16: [tearfully] And how about a mother's love?

    Lora Meredith: LOVE? But you've always had that!

    Susie, age 16: Yes, by telephone, by postcard, by magazine interviews... you've given me everything... but yourself!

  • Annie: Miss Lora, we just come from a place where... where my color deviled my baby. Now, anything here has gotta be better.