Extended Reading
  • Janie 2022-01-03 08:01:16

    The best times are not in the past, but in the future

    A movie full of hope.

    the best years of our lives.

  • Malvina 2022-01-03 08:01:16

    Director said

    After the war, the United States, although not like the war-torn and defeated countries in Europe and Asia, still faces a social issue that is closely watched by the whole country, how to treat and arrange demobilized veterans. In fact, this thorny social problem had already begun to show up a few...

  • Eve 2022-01-03 08:01:16

    A significant post-WWII paean that honestly and sensitively depicts with a satirical undertone the trauma and obstructions encountered by scarred veterans of different social classes.

  • Alice 2022-04-21 09:02:28

    If reality can really heal the wounds caused by war... just as the smoke of World War II has just dissipated, so this film is made into a social spiritual healing tool

The Best Years of Our Lives quotes

  • Rob Stephenson: We've been having lectures in atomic energy at school, and Mr. McLaughlin, he's our physics teacher, he says that we've reached a point where the whole human race has either got to find a way to live together, or else uhm...

    Al Stephenson: [with grim finality] Or else.

  • [last lines]

    Fred Derry: You know what it'll be, don't you, Peggy? It may take us years to get anywhere. We'll have no money, no decent place to live. We'll have to work, get kicked around...

    [Peggy, not caring one way or the other about these things, kisses him]