Thursday, February 24, 2011

Clogged Bathroom Sink Black Gook

In a nutshell: "Children's Hour" / "The Cildren's Hour" [USA 1961]


William Wyler's brave and bold scandal noodle kick ass against conservative Hollywood movie starts slow, but not entirely unsympathetic. Perhaps the worst child in America an analysis. Between feigned innocence and calculated disingenuousness, that child is responsible, respectively girls in a girls boarding school for all sorts of individual tensions of his upbringing agent. Wyler heaves the topic of interpersonal micro to macro levels of society, if it advances thanks to the rumor of a single complex study narrow-minded prejudice against homosexuals a great mystery called bigoted people, again without a single time "lesbian" to say. The interpretation is up to the viewer anyway, the sexually spoken word is often a whisper for the grandmother. Audrey Hepburn (feeling safe) and Shirley MacLaine (late in the whiny Over Acting caught) are torn between shame and despair, and shape the Hitchcock theme of the innocent, hunted, hounded by the press, speculation and slander, abandoned by friends, lovers, a happy marriage, a desired future. Zero point zero point total. The tragedy takes its course, a happy happy ending torn literally in the air. Franz Planer filming the final chord of a pernicious dark opera in morbid camera mounts. Conclusion: The old saying "children fools tell truth" is actually pure cynicism.

6.5 / 10

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