Drama
On The Beach (1958) – Humanity loses.
The 1950s saw The Cold War take off spectacularly. The two sides kept staring at each other and made worldwide alliances based on ideology. For all its talk of “Democracy”, the US supported unpopular dictatorships with terrible Human Rights records (Guatemala, Paraguay, Argentina, Zaire, etc.). The Socialist Bloc wasn’t far off, often crushing democratic dissent…
Read MoreBrief Encounter – 1945 – Love hurts (and how)
World War 2 had just ended. Chance sexual encounters between men and women during the war were rampant, fuelled by the “tomorrow may not come at all” feeling. Some ended happily in marriage. Others sadly with as the men went missing or died during the war. But what does one do now that war…
Read MoreThey Shoot Horses Don’t They (1969) – Harrowing watch
“We have become a race of peeping Toms. Instead, we should go out and look inside at ourselves”. This is an excellent quote from one of the greatest thrillers, Rear Window(1954), essentially about human voyeurism that is integral to our basic instinct. Modern “reality” and “game shows” have only taken these aspects, far ahead.…
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