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Post by topbilled on Mar 18, 2024 15:04:10 GMT
A great paragraph from Fading Fast's review:
Welles' directing so effectively juxtaposes the charming and "safe" Connecticut town, where families don't lock their doors at night, with the menace of Nazi Germany that it had to make audiences in 1946 go home feeling just a bit less secure wherever they lived.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 18, 2024 15:59:29 GMT
Thank you Topbilled and Fading Fast for two very interesting reviews. There was so much to this movie, it makes me wish they had gone an extra half hour to answer some of the questions.
Why did Mary call her father by his first name? Why did it take her so long to face the fact that her husband was an evil man? Yes she was in love with him, but she hadn't known him long and I would have thought she would believe her father over her husband, particularly as the evidence mounted up. Why did they spend a day searching the woods before looking in the clock tower? What was Mary carrying up that ladder in the end? Who would go up a ladder like that with one hand? Why did she ask her husband to pull her up when he could have just taken the box so she would have two hands? I know, I know, that ending was wildly dramatic and I loved it, but I just kept yelling "No!" at Mary for the last ten minutes. Who would go up a ladder like that?!
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