If One was to "Look-Up" American Southern "Slice of Life" (1930-1960) By Way of Tennessee Williams and His "Look-Alikes"...This Bitter Agonizing "Tear-Drenched" Experience would No Doubt "Pop-Up" as Template #1.
Half-Dirty, Over-Populated Environs where People "Dream of a Better Life" and an Exit to the Bleak Reality of Little Hope...
This Acre where Poverty, Barely Educated Folks Fighting the Stress, the Desire, to Make it All End.
Turning to the "Bottle", Turning to Religion, Turning on Each Other, Family and Friends and Turning on Themselves with Self-Pitiable Loneliness, Absence of Love, and No Insight about...
What to Do, Where to Go, and Who With, to Make it All Stop.
That's the Story Told Once Again Here, by Acclaimed Scribbler Paddy Chayefsky (Screen-Play Nominated for Oscar). One Guess is that in 1958 this Kind of Stuff...
through Plays, Books and Film had Not-Yet Saturated an Insatiable American Pastime, The Never-Tiring Look-See into the Daily Lives of the Less Fortunate Among Us Struggling to Survive in Barely Survivable Man-Made (forget God) Conditions.
The Booze, the Half-Failed Marriages and the Cheating, the Pills, Unwanted Pregnancies of Girls in Their Early Flowering, the Crowded Apartments and Streets, the Desperation,,,
Are We Having Fun Yet?
This Stuff was so Popular in its Day that Someone was Having Fun, it seems. Or were They just Curious, or Sadistic. This Particular Tale has Kim Stanley (at age 40) Given Heaps of Praise, and Acting Accolades. Truth be Told...She is Way to Old for the Part, Doesn't Have the Glam to be a "Discovered" Movie-Star, and Over-Acts Wildly at Times (some see this as important to lurid story),
The Rest of the Cast Sit Due and are Nothing but "Pinballs" that Stanley Bounces Off Of and Careens Somewhere Else. No Characters Last Long Enough to Care About (1st and 2nd Husbands and Her Baby),
That is Except Her Mother Who Also Comes and Goes but with Enormous Importance to What Personality Manifests in this Ever-Suffering, Neurotic who seems Incapable of Making Sense of Anything and Making Tragedy Out of Success.
A Dated Story and the Type of White-Americans Lost in the "Promised Land" that had the Middle-Class Fawning Over the Melodramatics of Those "Others".
Those Abandon by the System and God to Swim or Drown on Their Own...Not "Only in America" but God's Cruel World.
This Stuff was Beaten to Death and in the Oven So Long that Today it Seems Over-Baked....
Worth a Watch.
Half-Dirty, Over-Populated Environs where People "Dream of a Better Life" and an Exit to the Bleak Reality of Little Hope...
This Acre where Poverty, Barely Educated Folks Fighting the Stress, the Desire, to Make it All End.
Turning to the "Bottle", Turning to Religion, Turning on Each Other, Family and Friends and Turning on Themselves with Self-Pitiable Loneliness, Absence of Love, and No Insight about...
What to Do, Where to Go, and Who With, to Make it All Stop.
That's the Story Told Once Again Here, by Acclaimed Scribbler Paddy Chayefsky (Screen-Play Nominated for Oscar). One Guess is that in 1958 this Kind of Stuff...
through Plays, Books and Film had Not-Yet Saturated an Insatiable American Pastime, The Never-Tiring Look-See into the Daily Lives of the Less Fortunate Among Us Struggling to Survive in Barely Survivable Man-Made (forget God) Conditions.
The Booze, the Half-Failed Marriages and the Cheating, the Pills, Unwanted Pregnancies of Girls in Their Early Flowering, the Crowded Apartments and Streets, the Desperation,,,
Are We Having Fun Yet?
This Stuff was so Popular in its Day that Someone was Having Fun, it seems. Or were They just Curious, or Sadistic. This Particular Tale has Kim Stanley (at age 40) Given Heaps of Praise, and Acting Accolades. Truth be Told...She is Way to Old for the Part, Doesn't Have the Glam to be a "Discovered" Movie-Star, and Over-Acts Wildly at Times (some see this as important to lurid story),
The Rest of the Cast Sit Due and are Nothing but "Pinballs" that Stanley Bounces Off Of and Careens Somewhere Else. No Characters Last Long Enough to Care About (1st and 2nd Husbands and Her Baby),
That is Except Her Mother Who Also Comes and Goes but with Enormous Importance to What Personality Manifests in this Ever-Suffering, Neurotic who seems Incapable of Making Sense of Anything and Making Tragedy Out of Success.
A Dated Story and the Type of White-Americans Lost in the "Promised Land" that had the Middle-Class Fawning Over the Melodramatics of Those "Others".
Those Abandon by the System and God to Swim or Drown on Their Own...Not "Only in America" but God's Cruel World.
This Stuff was Beaten to Death and in the Oven So Long that Today it Seems Over-Baked....
Worth a Watch.