The film opens with a solo show by the male protagonist in the middle of the night, showing that this is a rich second generation who creates obstacles for himself and cannot extricate himself from the dark night of emotions. He who is depressed, decadent, and sorrowful by alcohol has no longer cared about his identity and image. Throwing the suit behind him, at this moment, he can only find himself by running and surmounting obstacles. As a result, his leg was broken and he became a wounded person who couldn't move freely. The director fully revealed the characters through the scheduling of scenery and space. Changes in personality and emotions.
This kind of connotation, accurate and rigorous scene scheduling runs through the entire play, and the wonderful performances of Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman have enhanced the viewing of the film.
Regrettably, although the film completely presented a complex large family relationship and the different attitudes of family members toward huge wealth, the director did not show the audience a clear, objective and fair value orientation.
In terms of character handling, except for the protagonist Maggie's full and three-dimensional character, the other characters' personalities are shaped slightly flat. Maggie is not only a strong man who has changed her destiny through hard work from the bottom of society, but also a selfish wife who is dissatisfied and actively participates in the struggle for property. She knows how to use her beauty to please the opposite sex, including her father-in-law when fighting for property. And for such a woman with a complicated personality, the director not only gave her deep sympathy and support, the whole film also developed and ended with her ultimate goal as the trend. The head of the family’s father is an arbitrary father who has a preference for his younger son. The younger son’s status determines where his property belongs. He is completely ignorant of his father’s wisdom and fairness as an elder. The youngest son of the protagonist is not really desperate. He who pursues friendship and enjoys love has broken his life balance because of the suicide of his teammates, and is too weak to face his wife to explain his relationship with his teammates. Under his father's strong intervention, he finally faced his wife and learned from her the truth about the suicide of his teammates and his wife's innocence, so he slept with his wife that night. And can the psychological cloud brought by his suicide teammates be swept away so quickly? In the film, the brother-in-law's family is completely indifferent, indifferent, and stupid and selfish, and even the children can't see any cuteness at all. This kind of treatment that both sides of the confrontation have been out of balance, both in appearance and intellect, has reduced the tension of the dramatic conflict.
The morality of the theme of the film is very vague. The Brick family’s return to good comparison with the brother-in-law’s failure to fight for property is the end of the film’s theme?
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