Fortunately, we still have fairy tales.

Queenie 2022-04-19 09:01:54

It seems that it is easy to get excited and often use "Ahhhh!!!" to express my excitement. When I was watching <>, I saw Mr. Smith, played by James Stewart, impassionedly denounced the politics of the week in Parliament. When there were all kinds of corruption and shady scenes, my heart couldn't help surging with Smith's advance and retreat. "Ahhhh!!!"
Like Frank Capra's usual reunion, the film finally fell into the Happy Ending ending as usual. To be honest, If it weren't for this abrupt ending, the film's artistic appeal would have been even better. Senator Paine's final remorse was abrupt enough. It gave the impression of a hasty ending. Compared to its other film In the work <>, the finale of the "Wall of Jericho" collapsed is very different.
In fact, what does American politics have to do with us? Not to mention what happened 80 years ago. But in the film I still have a lot of feelings for some of the short-to-the-point clips, Senator Paine controlling public opinion and wanton slandering Smith. The Boy Scouts were devastated by stubborn forces, the people's march was suppressed by the police with water cannons... how familiar it is.
If not Because of Paine's sudden remorse, all Smith's efforts were in vain. The political machine of the capitalists continued to operate. Smith's type of success can only exist in fairy tales.
Bit by bit.
Fortunately, we still have fairy tales.

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  • Shanna 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    Capra's usual sugar-coated, uplifting feel-good movie. Jimmy Stewart rocks as always.

  • Andy 2021-12-09 08:01:20

    Smith gave a twenty-four-hour speech in the Senate, reading the "Declaration of Independence" and the "Constitution", and single-handedly opposed Taylor's forces throughout the state. The American spirit is fully expressed in this film (similar to "Young Lincoln", "Twelve Angry Men", "Killing a Mockingbird", and the American TV series "Boston Law"), those that symbolize the American spirit Buildings and great people are sacred again.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington quotes

  • James Taylor: Hendricks, get the hoi polloi excited. Have them send protests, letters, wires, anything you like.

  • H.V. Kaltenborn, Himself: [Speaking into a CBS Radio microphone] This is H.V. Kaltenborn speaking. Half of official Washington is here to see democracy's finest show: the filibuster. The right to talk your head off. The American privilege of free speech in its most dramatic form. The least man in that chamber, once he gets and holds that floor, by the rules, can hold it and talk as long as he can stand on his feet. Providing always; first, that he does not sit down, second, that he does not leave the chamber or stop talking. The galleries are packed! In the diplomatic gallery, are the envoys of two dictator powers. They have come here to see what they can't see at home: democracy in action.