wmoores says > What did Kitty do to be locked away? The judge said something to the effect that she had bad 'morals,' but the movie doesn't even hint at any bad moral behavior or I slept through it.
What I love about the movies of that era is they often are so subtle one may not fully understand what is going on. Today we are so used to having everything so blatant and thrown in our faces it's hard for some people to notice subtlety.
The other issue is the behaviors that would have been scandalous during that time are very commonplace today. Unmarried couples make no attempt to hide the fact they're having sex or cohabiting. Some women have even taken to proclaiming they have had one or numerous abortions. They wear it like it's a badge of honor rather than being ashamed at the fact they killed their own child(ren).
The times have changed and watching these old movies help to put things in the proper perspective. We seem to thing today that anything someone does is neither right nor wrong; it's simply an expression of themselves. Clearly, that is not true. If we can understand and appreciate the fact the mother and judge behaved badly toward Kitty and David, why is it so hard to understand that other behaviors are or can equally be destructive?
We act completely shocked to learn that communities have rules and those rules, though they may seem arbitrary, were put in place for a reason. Anything that threatens the existence, strength, function, or integrity of that community must be discouraged at all cost. That's the reason things like murder, theft, arson, etc. are criminal acts against the state and not only against the individual victims.
When we hear of violence against any group whether it's within our immediate community or the larger world community, it should trouble us deeply. The sad thing is it doesn't seem to bother some people unless they are intimately involved. The question we should be asking ourselves is why that is. How can we continue to function as a society when so many of us seem willing these days to look the other way and claim 'to each his own'?
Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]
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