@deanduncan63Saw John Ford’s #TheSunShinesBright, reputed to be his own favourite among all the many features he made …
… Tons of things that’ll seem inappropriate or unacceptable to moderns! This is like the Walter Scott-infused South …
… as described & condemned by Mark Twain (in Life on the Mississippi, 1883). Worse, even. How is it then that its perfect craft …
…. resolves into what feels like perfect mercy? Chekhov’s “We shall rest…” Bergman’s “And so the cries and whispers fade away …”
… Benton’s Places in the Heart! At that level, of that calibre. Beautiful, beautiful stuff.
#TheSunShinesBright. W’ regard to the South, & Southern communities, & race & family, sin & sorrow, reclamation & reconciliation …
… this film knocks Harper Lee silly. And I love Harper Lee.