Sunday, April 28, 2013

"All That Heaven Allows" (1955)

Rock Hudson. Challenges 50s ideas. Set in it's own present day. Good visual symbolic/symbolic inclusions . Tie ins to Thoreau's Walden. Netflix description also clued into the use of "expressionistic colors"--yep. Early parts of the movie used Chopin preludes--a nice ambiguous, melancholy mirror to what was going on. No Chopin in the middle and later parts of the movie. And the mill/house? I want live in that.  Some obvious but clear use of lighting--the darkly lit scene in the conversation between mother and son, for example.

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