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itsmepreethi says...

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3 years ago

Any enjoyment I received from this film is solely because I love Katharine Hepburn.

"I'm tired of winning prizes...this time I want to be the prize myself." -> Huzzah, woman is tired of receiving objects and would like to become an object instead.

[spoiler]Tess is the most successful woman in America, and yet of course her life is meaningless because she cannot provide a "home" for a man and a child and is thus unlovable. What utter trash.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Tess remained exactly the same before and after her marriage: it's just that Sam assumed that she'd pay more attention to him and be more domestic after she became his wife. It's not her fault that he married an idealized (from his point of view) version of her.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I'm not saying Tess is perfect, but at the end of the day, what Sam saw is exactly what Sam got re: Tess, but he didn't like that.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I'M SO SORRY YOU WERE MADE TO FEEL INCOMPLETE AND WERE FORCED TO ATTEMPT TO COOK YOUR WAY INTO A MAN'S HEART, TESS. YOU DESERVED BETTER.[/spoiler]

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Rolivaw says...

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5 years ago

Strong woman, traditional man. The strong woman portrayed as heartless [spoiler] only to see the right way by being a proper wife.[/spoiler]. What a joke; and it is not just because of "the times".

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Reply by RogueScholar

3 years ago

@rolivaw Yeah, definitely not one of the better scripts that Hepburn and Tracy had to work with, it played more like an exercise on how to use serial clichés to get out of doing any real writing. I'm always frustrated by how the character of the Greek orphan boy is tragically underused, too. Anyone who's seen Captains Courageous knows how well Spencer Tracy can portray a paternal role to a young child, and it would've been a far more redemptive character arc for Tess to have come back to be with both of them than just Sam alone. Perhaps that too is an artifact of the times, no doubt it would've been a hard sell to that orphanage had Sam wanted to be named the boy's sole legal guardian.<br /> <br /> In the end, the tragedy shown in the story almost perfectly mirrors the one experienced by the audiences who watch it: so much wasted potential, with no sense of what the true end of the story will be...

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