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This is a great movie! It's not dated in anyway and if you want a great popcorn movie, this is it!

"Why don't you have another beer?"-Scott Stevens

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Couldn't agree more, I absolutely love this movie, it's a great Sunday afternoon choice, Rock Hudson at his best.

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Far From Heaven is a play of sorts of All That Heaven Allows. Instead of the age issue and class issue of ATHA, there's the racial issue. And for the fact that Julianne Moore's character was married. But the opening of both movies parralel each other(the same station-color and make-and the above the town camera work). Plus the abandoment by the best friend.

"Why don't you have another beer?"-Scott Stevens



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Why should contemporary audiences try to engage seriously or emotionally with dated films (aside from historical reasons)?

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I actually Studied Sirk this year, and the argument about the acting being rigid etc is actually a part of the purpose of Sirks direction. Sirk had to direct scripts (watery weak scripts) that were given to him by the studio, and obviously he had to stick to the conventions, but he also left a mark upon his work through the style and the messages. What's interesting is that he actually emphasizes certain conventions, such as the backdrops which are so fake that they look like a ground painting in Mary Poppins, and the acting is rigid and yet it dosnt really matter because Sirks direction causes us as an audience to feel for certain characters and not for others.
I think that Sirk is brilliant! I love the theatre feel of his work, and while I hate overly melodramatic soaps, his melodramas are brilliant, perhaps because they really shaped the genre of melodrama. I laughed at some of the moments in the film, particularly the injokes of Hudsons sexual orientation.
I also have to disagree about the opinion it's dated. They don't really make melodramas anymore, at least not in main stream cinema, and the acting may be rigid but it is more performance stage acting than "hollywood" blind acting. They may wear dated clothes, and live in unrealistic towns with "old" traditions and opinions, but when you concider today the tradition is still the 2 parent, 2 child middle class families, and the seperation of middle and working class, this film with its messages and values is still very contempoarary. Towns, and even socities, cultures and people within families are very much like those seen in the film, and we have very few Rons, Cary, much like most of us would, puts off happiness for acceptance, and then learns that she should have taken happiness because acceptance dosnt really matter and it can always come later.
I think with Sirk you either love him or you hate him, I think you have to study him and his films to understand him/them fully, and that's where a love for him can develop. As it happens, I also just like old weepies! lol :D

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There are no "in jokes" about Hudson's orientation in the movie. I can assure you neither he nor his studio Universal which had investly heavily in him as a major star would have ever let that happen. The line Jane Wyman says asking if he would than she were a man is not meant to have homosexual implications. And for the record, in 1955, it was not widely known that Rock was gay except by his closest intimates, he was very closeted at the time.

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I got automatically choked up with the Doctor's Office Scene. LOL

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