Final cruel sentence You thought I was fine on land. . .
Watching this summer, I could not help but notice the plot similarities with 'Tramway 'Desire'. A woman who has survived a crisis, left by everyone and decided to start a new life faces a world full of clichés. She can't get rid of her past and is essentially breathing life into the heroine Blanche DuBois. Anna Christie's final speech is more like a sentence. She denounces all conventions, standing up for a world filled with love.
The image of Anna fascinates with its power. One among men who are simply not able to make serious decisions, and going on the lead of conventionality, she shows a real character. At the same time, we have a male world. And a woman here can not move on her own through life.
Do you think I loved them all?
Of course, the requirements for acting have changed, but Greta Garbo’s exuberant manner of acting seemed excessive to me. It seems that for the actress to splash out emotions on the screen was not easy, because the role filled with expression looked synthetic. The paradox is that Garbo, who was in the center of the narrative, even with poor play, did not spoil the tape.
The miracle of charisma is that the viewer, realizing a very modest and sometimes artificial acting baggage, is forced to agree with Garbo, believe her, her heroine and accept this tape positively.
How do you swear on a Catholic cross if you're not Catholic?
Compositional film is built ' vertical' - a sluggish beginning turns into a boring middle. Only the last 30 minutes are the eyeliner to the solo of the prima donna Garbo. Everything is geometrically calculated so that the viewer gradually plunged into the terrible fantasies of the Great Depression. Emphasis on the bright finale.
But if you look at the modern narrative, you can see social evolution (or even revolution). Anna Christie is a man from another era. This is the reality of Ostrovsky and Tennessee Williams. The reality in which for a woman to openly say everything is a feat. But today, watching this tape is not so much a tribute to the history of cinema, but a knowledge of how society has changed over the past hundred years.
7 out of 10