poor person must have something mean

Anahi 2022-03-23 09:01:54

The success of the film is that it does not glorify life.
It is said that the Streetcar Named Desire is a subversion of the old Hollywood wit and beauty model in history. But for half a century, in literary and artistic works, the middle class has been criticized and beaten down countless times by angry young people, so today it seems that this aspect is nothing new.
On the other hand, angry young people from the middle class who regard Che Guevara as their idol, while criticizing the middle class, will unconsciously use condescending fantasies to beautify the life of the bottom society. To bring down one class to beautify the opposite class. That's just not the case in movies, where you don't see the director affirming anyone, there's no real good guy, and there's no real bad guy. Under the shadow of the social giant, they are all poor people, but they are all so hateful. You can't tell if life created them or if they created life.
This is also the unpopular part of this film. Young people will feel dissatisfied after watching it. They are sad and angry, and they vow to pursue their ideals and pursue true love. But when they turn around, life will pat them on the shoulder, shrug their shoulders, and spread out their hands helplessly: I don't have these two things

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A Streetcar Named Desire quotes

  • Blanche: Marry me, Mitch.

    Mitch: No, I don't think I want to marry you anymore... No, you're not clean enough to bring into the house with my mother.

  • Stanley: How about a few more details on that subject... Let's cop a gander at the bill of sale... What do you mean? She didn't show you no papers, no deed of sale or nothin' like that?... Well then, what was it then? Given away to charity?... Oh I don't care if she hears me. Now let's see the papers... Now listen. Did you ever hear of the Napoleonic code, Stella?... Now just let me enlighten you on a point or two... Now we got here in the state of Louisiana what's known as the Napoleonic code. You see, now according to that, what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband also, and vice versa... It looks to me like you've been swindled baby. And when you get swindled under Napoleonic code, I get swindled too and I don't like to get swindled... Where's the money if the place was sold?