Seen 5/11/15
2/4
While The Best Years of Our Lives was hugely successful in its time (1946), it stands today as nothing but a film with a good heart. The ideas and techniques are totally dry, such that to consider it Existentialist is, sadly, a joke. But I can say that I enjoyed the film, and really liked some of its characters. Especially striking were the two Stephenson women, who were acted with strength and genuineness. The men, on the other hand, were easily the weak point. The three leads were far cheesier than the women, and the actors gave worse performances. Fascinating is the fact that Harold Russell (Homer) won an Oscar and wide acclaim for his performance, which amounted to no more than a real veteran with no hands playing a veteran with no hands, and doing it with zero talent. He's not an actor! I'm sorry again..... I liked the film. But I actually found nothing to like in any characters but the two women and some supporting roles. However, those two characters were entirely enough to keep me invested.
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