The Best Years of Our Lives

Loraine 2022-03-23 09:02:09

In 1945, the dark clouds of war finally passed. In the city of Boone in the central United States, three fellow soldiers returned to their hometown on the same plane after being demobilized. The three were Sergeant Al, a former bank clerk, Captain Fred, a former department store clerk, and Homer, a sailor. Among them, Al is over middle-aged and Homer is the youngest. Before they parted, they made an appointment to see each other later, and then went home.
Upon returning home, the lucky Al was greeted with great enthusiasm by his wife Millie, grown-up daughter and son. Since then, Al and his beautiful wife and lovely children have lived a peaceful and happy life.
However, when Fred returned home, he saw that his father had been intoxicated, his mother had fallen, and that his wife, who had been married before the expedition, was often haunting nightclubs and fooling around with other men.
Homer, who lost his hands on the battlefield, even though he was fitted with a prosthetic hand, still brought a great burden to his parents, lover and those around him.
On the day of the appointment, the three met in a bar and talked about their own experiences: Homer said that the pity of his lover and relatives made him unbearable, and Fred was indignant about his wife's parting...
That day In the evening, Fred accepted Al's invitation to visit his house and fell in love with Al's daughter at first sight. Later, Fred found a job as a salesman. By chance, at the airport, he saw the "air fortress" that brought them back, but now it has become a large pile of scrap metal. These scrap metals come into the building materials business. At Homer's wedding, the two reunited, and Fred told Al's daughter that he would marry her when he succeeded in his career.
After the demobilization of the three veterans, they finally end their lives with happiness...

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  • Lela 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    To be precise, the film's lashing of war is vain. We may have seen Homer's hooker, saw Fred's repeated oppression at work, and someone told Washington's deceitful tricks to make abandoned warplanes. The visual impact, the veterans are like these scraps, and they are of little use, except for Ayr, the conclusion is difficult to establish, but the great love prevails.

  • Diego 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    3 hours and 20 minutes doesn't feel long at all~ But the front is still a bit dragged

The Best Years of Our Lives quotes

  • Mr. Mollett: Say, uh, do you mind if I ask you a personal question?

    Homer Parrish: I know what it is. How did I get these hooks and how do they work? That's what everybody says when they start off, "Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?" Well, I'll tell ya. I got sick and tired of that old pair of hands I had. You know, an awful lot of trouble washing them and manicuring my nails. So I traded them in for a pair of these latest models. They work by radar. Look.

    [He takes a scoop of his ice cream sundae with a spoon]

    Homer Parrish: Pretty cute, hey?

  • Wilma Cameron: Tell me the truth, Homer. Do you want me to forget about you?

    Homer Parrish: I want you to be free, Wilma, to live your own life. I don't want you tied down forever just because you've got a kind heart.

    Wilma Cameron: Oh, Homer! Why can't you ever understand the way things really are, the way I really feel? I keep trying to tell you.

    Homer Parrish: But, but you don't know, Wilma. You don't know what it'd be like to have to live with me. To have to face this

    [his hooks]

    Homer Parrish: every day, every night.

    Wilma Cameron: But I can only find out by trying. And if it turns out I haven't courage enough, we'll soon know it.