Fragile

Vivien Leigh's interpretation of Blanche is almost perfect. Almost all the time, we hear Blanche's soft voice, belied her age, and let one feel only her grace and loveliness; her movements are so delicate and always timeless. To monologue, spit out poetic sentences, it is even more fascinating. You will feel that she is really telling you everything, that she is expressing her feelings, and that her experience is sympathetic. When dealing with Mickey, her contradictory mood was so revealing that one had to believe that everything was real and beautiful. She shows her own charm everywhere, and especially likes the compliments of others. She hides herself in endless vanity, and sometimes wants to prove her charm. It became everything in her life, after her husband was "killed by her".
It's a pity that her fragile grace and lies were shattered by Stanley. At the moment when the proof is clear, Blanche is completely out of her mind, she no longer has the grace, she speaks in a harsh old voice that is almost another person, venting her anger, but in the end, Stanley has his way.
Although Stanley's revelation of the truth is difficult to condemn, everything he does is full of wild traces and full of selfishness. His starting point is not to find the truth, but for property, and even more to prove the hypocrisy of Blanche, which he hates. In the end, he raped Blanche almost as compensation for his inability to receive property, which was even boasted about. On the other hand, his original intention also included giving their family an "ideal" life, which is completely understandable.
My sympathy for Blanche, for her living in a dream, for her inability to wake up consciously; I also sympathize with Stanley, a man who let wildness and selfishness take over and ended up losing the family he wanted to fight for.
In the beginning, when Stanley looked at the contents of Blanche's box, I tended to let Stanley uncover the truth. But after so long, I treated Blanche more sympathetically, and although it was a lie, I have nothing but deep pity for her who regained her grace so quickly even after being raped by Stanley. Sadness comes. In the end, the scene where she took the "gentleman" and walked out of the door was still fresh in the memory.

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