tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2746502363551524682.post1172955888183045486..comments2024-03-27T18:40:05.920+02:00Comments on TSorensen 1001 movie blog: All that Heaven Allows (1956)TSorensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12208153011927807857noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2746502363551524682.post-12027439532585072682016-03-07T10:10:43.519+02:002016-03-07T10:10:43.519+02:00Well, to me the idea of a grown woman seeking an e...Well, to me the idea of a grown woman seeking an escape from middle class suburbia is both very old and very trivial. Maybe if I watched this in 56 I would think thsi was earth shaking, but I am not and therefore this is nothing else than the trillion other movies on the same vein that I quickly skip past on the television on an average Tuesday evening.<br />TSorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208153011927807857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2746502363551524682.post-28306359905991844292016-03-05T12:05:36.535+02:002016-03-05T12:05:36.535+02:00I appreciate the autumnal atmosphere the film deli...I appreciate the autumnal atmosphere the film delivers, which looks beautiful. I like the film because it challenges the suburban ideal of the era, but I get you didn't think it was subversive enough.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09395044055566348346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2746502363551524682.post-26887804700602927382016-02-29T22:06:54.565+02:002016-02-29T22:06:54.565+02:00I am already excited about the next movie.I am already excited about the next movie.TSorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208153011927807857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2746502363551524682.post-33654356530952133482016-02-29T22:05:26.155+02:002016-02-29T22:05:26.155+02:00Maybe it was not so much the issue as the format t...Maybe it was not so much the issue as the format that troubled me. It is so... glossy. It is telenovella style. That is such a turn off for me.<br />TSorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208153011927807857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2746502363551524682.post-68003461714161583032016-02-29T21:28:57.637+02:002016-02-29T21:28:57.637+02:00I tend to agree on Sirk movies, but this one did w...I tend to agree on Sirk movies, but this one did work well enough for me to like it. This WAS an actually issue for her kind of people in that time and place. Although the U.S. didn't have the kind of caste system of India, or even the rigid class structure of the U.K. there was still a lot of "us" and "them" thinking back then when it came to the privileged and the working class.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2746502363551524682.post-1489195958801397962016-02-29T18:04:31.278+02:002016-02-29T18:04:31.278+02:00Sorry it didn't work for you. Onward and upwa...Sorry it didn't work for you. Onward and upward!marie_dresslerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06334550550983418668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2746502363551524682.post-32542770211062648552016-02-29T09:37:40.683+02:002016-02-29T09:37:40.683+02:00Very good point about Cary getting to be a nurse r...Very good point about Cary getting to be a nurse rather than an equal partner. If you add the deer and the old mill you are back in 1956 fairy tale land. So much for subversiveness.<br />TSorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208153011927807857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2746502363551524682.post-56048391991039846772016-02-29T09:10:29.069+02:002016-02-29T09:10:29.069+02:00Yes, I largely agree with you. I felt at one point...Yes, I largely agree with you. I felt at one point that it was going to be subversive, by having Cary choose to do her own thing, but then that ending happened, and she is denied the opportunity to have an equal, adult relationship. She instead gets to be his nurse. <br /><br />It does look beautiful, and the use of the television screen was masterful, but the story makes me reluctant to ever watch this again.Julia Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09041411551162128922noreply@blogger.com