All That Heaven Allows

German 2022-01-18 08:01:22

An auteur maudit of his time, German émigré Douglas Sirk's renown has been considerably reappraised with much admiration for his trademark disposition of light and color, the swelling watchability sublimated from its saccharine source material, aka. the often derogated melodrama, and affecting...

Katlyn 2022-01-18 08:01:22

Douglas Sirk once said: "This is the dialectic—there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art." When All That Heaven Allows was released by Universal Pictures in 1955, it was just another critically...

Landen 2022-01-18 08:01:22

Accurately grasped the frequency of "loneliness", it is the disappointment and desire of the other person who wants to speak but hangs up the phone, or the feeling is still a long time after the words are finished; finally the yellow color of the sofa is really beautiful, and the non-retro style can be imitated; the process of watching In the middle, Qu Yi thinks of Lu Xun's words, not afraid to speculate on Chinese people with the worst malice. The multi-layered hell constituted by the malice of others is the most exciting feature of the script, and of course the fineness and completeness of the script.

Nicholas 2022-04-24 07:01:22

The personality of the old movies is very clear: the male protagonist is confident, attractive, and free, and the deep contradiction is the lower social status and being yourself. The heroine is a heartthrob, and the deep contradiction is the widow's middle-class status and the pursuit of freedom of love. My daughter, a Floyd fan, is too academic. Son, handsome and charming, but only caring about face; Oedipus complex: the son resents his mother for being too attractive; the argument recorded in film history: the part of human nature that likes to live for others to see, and the popularity of TV satisfies people's desire for voyeurism, some Same thing. The bad part of the film: Qiong Yao's plot smashes people's emotions hard to the ground. ex: Son throws: Mom! I sold your house. Then attention turned directly to the mother who was hit by the words. Why did the son say this, it was ignored directly; the plot was neat, like it was written according to the scriptwriter's book, but fortunately the psychological motivation was dug into the flesh. ex: Why hide the secret? Because of the subconscious mind, I don’t think it’s appropriate. Shot: Winter snow on the floor-to-ceiling windows, and the light created by the stained glass entering the room is beautiful. If there is a Bible to quote, I think it is: rickmorty. hh