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at The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
read the "Manchurian Candidate "Afterwards, I just wanted to take a look at the movie, but I was deeply attracted by the beginning of the movie. So, I watched this 172-minute, nearly three-hour movie in one go.
The plot of this film is very attractive. It mainly tells the story of three veterans returning home from the old, middle and young. The war was over, and the three veterans, the old, the middle, and the young, met on the plane and met. The old, middle, and young people represent the three different stages of men. The old people have two children after 20 years of marriage. The middle-aged people go to the front after they get married. The young people join the army after graduating from high school and have only one woman. friend. The elderly returned home and received a warm welcome; the middle-aged returned home but found that only their elderly parents were missing, and the wife was nowhere to be seen; the young people were unhappy when they returned home because they lost their hands, although their girlfriends didn't mind. On the night of his return, the middle-aged man ran into the old man with his wife and daughter. They celebrated together happily, and the two men were so happy that they were drunk. The two women had to send the drunks to their homes to sleep. After one night, the middle-aged man and the elderly’s daughter had mutual affection, but unfortunately the middle-aged man was already married and they could not continue to develop their relationship. The middle-aged man found his wife, but his wife loves vanity and spends a lot of money, so the middle-aged man had to continue to return to the pre-war workplace to do the most ordinary work. At the same time, the elderly returned to work in the pre-war bank, while the young continued to immerse themselves in their pain. One day, the daughter of the elderly found the middle-aged man, and the two showed their love. The daughter of the coming person who was very hesitant found out after a party that the marriage of the middle-aged person was not happy. She strengthened the belief in communicating with the middle-aged person and decided to separate them, so they started dating. But the elderly did not agree. After the elderly talked with the middle-aged, the middle-aged broke up with the elderly's daughter. Even so, after the breakup, the middle-aged man divorced his wife, and also had to leave his hometown because of the loss of his job. Fortunately, he found a job he was good at at the airport in his hometown. With the encouragement of the middle-aged people, the young people confessed their hearts with their girlfriends, so they are about to get married. At the young people's wedding, the three veterans met again, and the relationship between the middle-aged man and the old man's daughter rekindled, and the film ended in their passionate kiss.
This movie is full of highlights, strong contradictions and conflicts, and very attractive. At the beginning of the film, you can worry about the future of the three characters through their different life backgrounds and life experiences. What will be the situation of the elderly at home? Is the marriage of middle-aged people happy? Can young people continue to be with their girlfriends? The suspense set in the film has gripped my heart tightly and made me want to stop. As the plot unfolds, the audience will continue to pay attention to the plot, and there are new points to unfold: how do middle-aged people live with their wives? Will he and the elderly daughter be married together? Will the boss’s approval of the old people’s stubborn work style? Will the young man’s girlfriend leave because of the young man’s silence? Each of these highlights deeply attracted me. To paraphrase a saying, I and the characters in the play "breath and share fate." As a movie from the last 1940s, it is really commendable that the plot can be set so real, vivid and attractive!
What is more rare in this film is a film that reflects social reality. It is not the noir film that prevailed in the 1940s, nor is it a Hitchcock-style suspense reasoning film, but a realistic film that can resonate with the audience and make the audience think. In the 1940s movies that I have not seen many, this film is considered to be an outlier. The movie reflects many real problems in society. For example, battle heroes will not receive preferential treatment because of their special experience. If they don’t have the skills, they can only do some work at the lowest level; the soldiers who shed blood for the country will not be because of them. To receive mercy for the contribution to the country, everything must be done in accordance with the rules, such as loans; the divorce of veterans is also a very realistic situation. Men in uniforms are very popular, and men who take off uniforms are very ordinary and admire. It is inevitable for a vain woman to choose to leave; the young man who lost his hands because of the war is even more pathetic. His life has just begun, and no hands will cause great difficulties in his future life. In short, this movie shows the real life of veterans in the United States after World War II. In addition to making us feel sad for what happened to them, it also makes us feel the cruelty of real society.
Of course, this is a Hollywood movie, and we still have to give the audience hope and create an American dream for the people before the movie. Therefore, the movie has a happy and hopeful ending: the middle-aged man was lucky enough to find a job in his hometown when he was most desperate, and he was divorced from his vain wife, and he was finally married with the daughter and lover of the elderly, the youth Ren also got married with his childhood sweetheart neighbor and girlfriend, and even the name of the movie is called "Golden Age". What a sunny ending, what a beautiful ending! But it seems too fake, the real world is not so beautiful, this is just a fairy tale on earth, a dream in Hollywood.
In addition to the realistic reflection of the society and the attractive plot, the style of the movie is also very fresh. It uses a relaxed and pleasant way to tell the story of the movie's slightly heavy plot vividly. The first half of the movie has some comedy elements, especially when the elderly and middle-aged people drink and go to sleep at home. It is really funny and there are a lot of laughs, so I won't say much about it. From the beginning of the film to the time they wake up in the morning after sobering up, the film took more than an hour, but it was because the director used this kind of comedic expression, which made me watch the process. It didn't feel dull at all, and 60 minutes passed in a flash. Although the second half of the film makes the tone of the film a bit heavy due to the plot, it does not use very dark expressions to advance the plot, and it still carries a positive mood. In addition, the rhythm of the film is very coordinated, and there is no particular procrastination, which is one of the reasons why the film makes me fully engaged.
The director of this film is William Wyler. After watching this movie, I realized that he is really a great director. After checking the information, I found that I had watched three of his movies, namely "Benxu", "Roman Holiday" and this film. I hadn't noticed before. These three movies have different styles, but each has its own characteristics. This is where I admire William Wyler the most. The movies that William Wyler shoots may not have their own style, but every movie he shoots is very beautiful, whether it is a romantic movie, an epic movie, or a realistic movie that reflects social reality. Looking at his list of works, I know that I will see many of his works in the future, and I believe he will continue to bring me new feelings.
Among the actors in this film, the male actors don't have much to watch, so I won't say much. But this film is a family-oriented film, there are many actresses, so this film let me know a lot of beautiful women. The most beautiful is Teresa Wright, the heroine, who looks very beautiful. Next is another heroine Cathy O'Donnell. She appeared in the "Benxu" she just watched. She didn't have any impression of her in that movie, but she was very pure in this film, and the woman was beautiful when she was young. In the end, Myrna Loy, the actor of the mother, is also a beauty. I saw photos of her when she was young on the Internet and found that she was not inferior to Teresa Wright in the film at that time. The film also has a supporting role, Virginia Mayo, which is also very beautiful, but she has too few roles in this film. According to online information, she performed well after the 1940s. It is estimated that there will be a chance to see her performance at that time in the future.
In short, a fascinating plot and a thought-provoking masterpiece, and there are many beautiful women, it is very worth seeing.
Teresa Wright
Teresa Wright
Cathy O'Donnell
Cathy O'Donnell
Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy
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Top188. The Golden Age. The. Best. Years. Of. Our. Lives. 1946. D9. MiniSD-TLF
2011-08-08
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