Triple,
I'll write posts like this on IMDB from time to time regaring my generation.
As briefly, but detailed as I can put it, today's generation(ALL AGES) are meaterialistic! Materialism results in a loss of critical thinking, which is sacrificed for the idea(and hope) for instant gratification. People nowadays, don't know how to think, they just know how to act, and this is just leading to more apathy. When today's audience looks at Deanie's visible expressions, they will not comprehend how she's feeling unless she blatantly says it. Because of this, today's audience(like my friend) will be bored to death when they watch the film because they are expecting instant answers without searching for it or thinking about it, it's ultimately a trait they lack.
People, nowadays, search so hard to act and be something so great on the outside because this is what the public is judging them on. Society will seldom judge you on the inside before the outside. Unfortanately, and not really their fault, these people become insensitive, selfish, insecure, and shallow. None of these traits will help them understand the film.
The film, for the most part, is comprehended by the unspoken words. Deanie reacting the way she did in the bathtub, Bud reacting the way he did in front of the doctor, Deanie and Bud's sense of unhappiness as they tell each other their final goodbyes in the last scene, Deanie's inability to hide her emotions when the teacher tells her to define Thoreou's poem which is eerily similar to her own life, etc.. These, imo, were the best parts of the film.
It's a great film, timeless in every sense. Too bad it's shreaded apart by such people.
I wake up from dreams and go "Wow, put this down on paper."
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JacksCatGirl
12 years ago
I'm 25 and I like most old films, mostly the old films that stuck it to the horrid Hay's Code and found clever ways around their prudish rules of black and white morals(I love films like Mildred Pierce, Sunset Boulevard, Leave Her to Heaven, Night of the Hunter, The Women, Marie Antoinette, Gypsy, Shadow of a Doubt, The Apartment, Imitation of Life, etc)
This film just doesn't seemed like an old film nor feel like it, it's so hard for me to believe it's made in 1961(how did it get past the Hay's Code?), it's so modern in it's bluntness and sexuality and most of all it's characters, it was so much like the rich independent films that plays at Cannes, not sugar coded at all and very raw with such dark realism, so unlike the other films from the early 60s I saw with Sandra Dee, Doris Day, Jerry Lewis, Rock Hudson.
Jacks
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PrometheusTree64
10 years ago
By the early-'60s, due to competition from an influx of "looser" European films, American films were relaxing just a bit, although the code was still in place.
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