A Streetcar Named Desire movie review

One sentence review

A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the archetypal Hollywood films to which many films will be compared, fairly or unfairly.

——"Film Critic"

The film itself was a tribute to realism in 1951, although it seems claustrophobic and pretentious today.

——"Chicago Sun-Times"

Brief review of the film

The content is highly allegorical. People eat each other due to their "desire, forming a world where the jungle can eat the strong." . The film touches on the physiological and psychological impact of sex on people for the first time, and goes against the Hollywood cliché of "happy ending" by arranging a tragic ending. The photography is full of contrasts, and the performances of the male and female protagonists are infectious.

Vivien Leigh won the 1951 Oscar for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actor, and Best Art Direction. It is one of the films worthy of attention in the history of American film.

The final shot of the film is unforgettable: a sad Stella, a guilty Stanley and a ashamed Mickey stand blankly on the street, watching the crazy Blanche being dragged away by a car from the lunatic asylum.

This is an image model of audio-visual art in the early 1950s. A black-and-white movie with a stream of broken shadows. This is the effect of the shooting method serving the special physical and mental feelings of the hostess. Blanche is photophobic by nature, Blanche is evasive, and Blanche appears and appears strangely. She is a mysterious woman. A Streetcar Named Desire is an eye-catching carrier of this classic black and white film. It is this Streetcar Named Desire that takes the heroine Blanche from the rural farm of Olivier to a crowded and mysterious place - the United States. The paradise of New Orleans, the capital of the South. Blanche took the Bliss, transferred to the Tomb, and then onto a Streetcar Named Desire, arriving at this so-called paradise.

The streetcars in "A Streetcar Named Desire" directed by the famous director Elia Kazan do not have digital license plate names. The streetcar stopping platform also seems to have no starting point and not many ending points. Blanche rode a streetcar named Desire, carrying many hopes and ideals in life, and came to the dark city. A scene of feasting and feasting appeared in front of the heroine, and then Desire made a loud noise, and the sound was heard in a room with a sign named "Fordicis". "The door of the bar. The heroine Blanche, played by Vivien Leigh, was full of confusion, and she got out of the car with a wandering expression. After her feet touched the shore, her eyes were stunned, and a question appeared between her eyebrows: Hey, where is this paradise? It is clearly a slum. . The paradise-like slums have become Blanche's destined choice.

In the film, A Streetcar Named Desire pulls Blanche to heaven to find her sister Stella. Blanche once thought that she had really arrived in a blessed place. She fantasizes that here she has her own separate room, her own makeup mirror, where she can take a hot bath every day, enjoy elegant music, recite poems and novels, and where everyone is a brother and sister, and she can even find friends. The destination of your own love. Blanche came to see her sister on A Streetcar Named Desire because of her dream of paradise. But unexpectedly, the paradise of heaven is so dark and so poor. So sad. This sorrow severely shattered all Blanche's beautiful dreams. She had no choice but to start her own private life. And Blanche's alternative life is about exploring and testing the subtle state. -H

Blanche lived in poverty and shame in the cramped home of her sister and brother-in-law. She longs for nobility, but she is also humble. She is infatuated with wealth, but is lost in poverty. The life concepts of Blanche and the hero Stanley, played by Marlon Brando, are very opposite and particularly conflicting. Blanche was afraid of Brando's eyes. The film "A Streetcar Named Desire" is also a black and white story film that reveals the mysterious heroine Blanche's thick veil. In this process of solving the mystery, Marlon Brando played the role of a quick swordsman and axe. Stanley is not only sharp with his sword, but also sharp with his heart. This is the 26-year-old Marlon Brando's debut on the screen. Marlon Brando starred as Stanley in the stage play "A Streetcar Named Desire" of the same name as early as 1947. Characters such as the gangster proletariat are always Marlon Brando's specialty.

Marlon Brando was nominated for the 1951 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire." However, Brando misunderstood many Olympic judges because of his too rough and intense "method performance". Marlon Brando missed the Oscar this time. Fortunately for Vivien Leigh, she won two Oscars for her role as Blanche. It is true that Vivien Leigh's position in "A Streetcar Named Desire" is much heavier than Brando's. It should be noted that Blanche's existence has always been a noble image that does not want to join the dirty society. In order not to be a vase, for the sake of self-respect, and for the sake of sacred love, Blanche hid her numerous past experiences, avoided many personal old evils, changed her appearance, and came to the so-called paradise, longing for a new life and desiring a new life. body. The eroticism of desire reborn. But everything in front of him was so cold and cruel. Don't give up.

The A Streetcar Named Desire that Vivien Leigh rode on was speeding along the line. It's just that she got off at the wrong stop.

In this paradise station, Blanche still heard her favorite polka dance "Vassowerna", enjoyed her favorite song "Goodnight Madam", and hummed to the bathing waves in the bathroom like a childlike child. "Paper Moon"... This is the inner desire of a woman whose life is short but always longs for a noble life. In fact, her needs are not overwhelming. She just wants a sincere man who loves her and protects her, and that's enough. Desire is love. Later, Blanche personally told the man she had loved: She had loved her, but it had all disappeared. Because Blanche has no love at this time, only incomprehensible desire. Desire is "Vassouerna", desire is "Goodnight Madame", desire is "Paper Moon"... Blanche knows full well that desire is fire.

Blanche’s desire to remain invisible in her past life is finally revealed to the public by the beast Stanley. It turns out that this mysterious Blanche has already been notorious in her hometown of Olivier. Blanche was accused by her ruthless brother-in-law: She used to be a middle school teacher. She once used teaching to benefit herself and seduced a boy in school and was expelled from the school. Blanche has long been known as a slut. At this point in the film, Blanche's efforts for a new life have finally failed. In Blanche's eyes, paradise becomes the gate to hell. In the last scene of the movie "A Streetcar Named Desire", a confused Blanche was forced into a black car by a doctor in white and taken to a mental hospital while struggling. Then Blanche slowly calmed down. Facing the psychiatrist, she stretched out her hands slowly and gradually smiled. Blanche murmured lazily and hopefully: Strangers are always kind, I believe in you...

At this time, on the streets of Paradise, the streetcar named Desire was still dinging and dinging, and the street was normal. Driving. Driving. Blanche quietly stopped at his terminal. That was a strange terminal point in her life. That was a strange terminal in her soul. Strangers are always kind, I believe you... On the unfamiliar A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche's fire of desire burned herself. In a strange mental hospital, because of the strangeness, Blanche felt that there was no shadow of the past, no psychological burden, and no direct confrontation. There were no strange looks. Her state of mind can still be compared to the sky. A Streetcar Named Desire, a strange terminal. Mental hospital, a strange terminal. The ending of the movie "A Streetcar Named Desire" still tells us that A Streetcar Named Desire is still driving up and down the street in Paradise. Still docking normally in the blessed land of heaven. There are still mysterious women hurriedly moving up and down. A Streetcar Named Desire, a strange terminal. Death, a strange terminal.

A Streetcar Named Desire, a strange terminal.