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A rare film about veterans
Garnet 2022-03-24 09:02:11
The film won seven awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor at the 19th Academy Awards. The film starts with three veterans, deeply digging into the various problems encountered by American soldiers returning home from the army after the end of World War II. The incomprehension of the family, the incompatibility of the society, and the betrayal of the wife reflected the real current situation of American society at that time. This is a sad and hopeful film. It was what the audience at the time needed, and it gave us comfort~
Extended Reading
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Stefanie 2022-04-23 07:02:32
"Veterans should not be isolated from the main body of the country, because their problems are also the problems of the country." This generation of Hollywood people who have actually been on the battlefield understands the trauma of the characters they have created in the war, and they are in What difficulties are they facing on the way back to ordinary life; the details they give are trivial but true, not generalities; they are also uncertain about their future life, and to a certain extent project their own experiences into it . For Wheeler, who is almost deaf due to the war, directing this film is also his reorganization of the past and the prospect of future life. Regrettably, just as Europeans in 1918 believed that World War I ended all wars, happy Americans in 1946 thought they were in for the best of times, and never expected that their children and grandchildren would repeat the same mistakes in the near future.
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Lila 2022-01-03 08:01:16
Life after the war; tenderness is like water. Life may be hard, but life is still beautiful, and all the hardships come with joy. An idealized side of life.
The Best Years of Our Lives quotes
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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.
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[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]