In the mid-1950s, some Hollywood figures or progressives who were "exiled" during the McCarthyist period made a series of films that exposed the darkness of American society and politics. "The Wharf" is the representative work of this period. It is relatively successful in shaping the image of Docker Terry. He was once deceived and used by evil forces, but finally awakened and resisted. The situation of a special era was just like this. In "On the Wharf," the storyline comes from real social issues. The whole film is also "semi-documentary" in a documentary style, that is, a feature film shot in a documentary style. Many scenes in the film were filmed on-site in New York's harbors and piers, with realistic environments, and the characters and dramatic conflicts are vivid. The story script of the film also has multiple characters and multiple clues. Through the advancement of the plot, the problem of performance is revealed in an orderly manner. As a director from the theater stage, Ilya & bull; Kazan, with the directing ability formed by the scheduling of stage factors, endows the film with a real and layered sense of story.
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