The Best Years of Our Lives movie plot

2022-01-03 08:01
In 1945, the dark clouds of war finally passed. In Boone in the central United States, three fellow soldiers returned to their hometown on the same plane after being demobilized. These three people are Sergeant Al, former bank clerk , Captain Fred, former department store clerk , and Sailor Homer. After returning home, Al was greeted with enthusiasm by his wife Millie, grown-up daughter and son. But the growth of the children and the generation gap between thoughts made Al suddenly feel at a loss. When Fred returned home, he saw that his father was alcoholic and his mother had fallen, and his wife, who had been married before the expedition, had moved out of his home and was nowhere to find it. Homer, who lost his hands on the battlefield, had a prosthetic hand, but when faced with his relatives, especially his childhood sweetheart fiancee, he had a great psychological burden. He worried that his fiancée chose to stay behind because of pity.
On the same night, the three met in a bar and talked about their own experiences. At the same time, Fred and Al's daughter Peggyfirst sight. Al returned to work in the bank, but he disagrees with the bank's senior management because of loan guarantees to veterans. Fred returned to the cold drink shop as a salesperson, but this was inconsistent with his heart; at the same time, he found that he could not bear his wife's pleasure-seeking, vanity and snobbery. Homer is still indifferent and evasive towards his fiancee. After a painful decision, the three men finally started a new life. At Homer's wedding, the three families met again, and Fred and Peggy finally came together. The three demobilized veterans have all rediscovered themselves in their new lives, and a new period of The Best Years of Our Lives has opened.  .
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  • Elaina 2022-01-03 08:01:16

    The middle-class family melodrama filmed to this degree is even the pinnacle. From the movies, the veterans who returned to China after the war disliked the professional women who robbed them of their jobs, but the traditional housewives who had studied in the housekeeping class were more likely to gain the recognition of the middle class.

  • Harvey 2022-03-22 09:02:01

    Different life different perceptions

The Best Years of Our Lives quotes

  • Al Stephenson: We don't need to worry about that child. She can take care of herself.

    Milly Stephenson: That's what she thinks.

  • [Al is speaking to the banquet]

    Al Stephenson: I'm glad to see you've all pulled through so well. As Mr. Milton so perfectly expressed it: our country stands today... where it stands today... wherever that is. I'm sure you'll all agree with me if I said that now is the time for all of us to stop all this nonsense, face facts, get down to brass tacks, forget about the war and go fishing. But I'm not gonna say it. I'm just going to sum the whole thing up in one word.

    [Milly coughs loudly to caution him - worrying that he will tell off the boss]

    Al Stephenson: My wife doesn't think I'd better sum it up in that one word. I want to tell you all that the reason for my success as a Sergeant is due primarily to my previous training in the Cornbelt Loan and Trust Company. The knowledge I acquired in the good ol' bank I applied to my problems in the infantry. For instance, one day in Okinawa, a Major comes up to me and he says, "Stephenson, you see that hill?" "Yes sir, I see it." "All right," he said. "You and your platoon will attack said hill and take it." So I said to the Major, "but that operation involves considerable risk. We haven't sufficient collateral." "I'm aware of that," said the Major, "but the fact remains that there's the hill and you are the guys who are going to take it." So I said to him, "I'm sorry, Major... no collateral, no hill." So we didn't take the hill and we lost the war. I think that little story has considerable significance, but I've forgotten what it is. And now in conclusion, I'd like to tell you a humorous anecdote. I know several humorous anecdotes, but I can't think of any way to clean them up, so I'll only say this much. I love the Cornbelt Loan and Trust Company. There are some who say that the old bank is suffering from hardening of the arteries and of the heart. I refuse to listen to such radical talk. I say that our bank is alive, it's generous, it's human, and we're going to have such a line of customers seeking and GETTING small loans that people will think we're gambling with the depositors' money. And we will be. We will be gambling on the future of this country. I thank you.

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