"The Last Picture Show" is one of the most important films in the 1970s in the United States. The film tells the desolate scene of Nashville, Texas in the 1950s, depicting a dying landscape that belongs to the barren land of the west. The black-and-white photography of the film deeply conveys the meaning of that era, and the film can be regarded as a relatively outstanding representative work of director Peter Bogdanovich
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The script of the film is excellent. The characters of different age groups and the characters of each character are used in the film to show the different backgrounds of the times. The director used black-and-white film to shoot, clearly portraying the nostalgia of the times, and also portraying some emotions vividly
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