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This is a amazing low-budget, murky and white film starring a immense cast of actors: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, and then newcomer, Elizabeth Hartman. It was filmed in 1965, at the height of the civil rights movement, and was then critical for its budding inter-racial romance. While this aspect may seem rather tame today, at the time the movie was filmed, this was unexcited a somewhat controversial theme in many parts of America.
Elizabeth Hartman, in an exquisitely poignant performance for which she was nominated for an Academy Award, plays the fraction of Selina D’Arcy, an eighteen year outmoded blind girl who lives an isolated and impoverished, almost Dickensian, existence. She lives with her abusive mother, Rose-Ann (Shelley Winters), who moonlights as a prostitute, and her drunken, though somewhat well-meaning, grandfather, whom she calls Ole Pa (Wallace Ford) . Uneducated, having never gone to school, Selina spends her time stringing beads to accumulate some money for the family, cleaning up after her mother and grandfather, and being at the receiving extinguish of constant physical abuse and verbal invectives heaped upon her by her mother. Hers is, indeed, a draconian existence.
One day, she prevails upon her grandfather to topple her off in the park, where she proceeds to sit under a tree, stringing her beads. There, she meets a friendly, well-educated business man, Gordon Ralphe (Sidney Poitier), who takes an interest in her and her fast appreciation for any kindness done to her. She responds to Gordon’s kindness as if she were a flower turning its face to the sun for continued warmth. He, in turn, is touched by her alive to interest in even the most mundane of matters. They continue to meet under that tree as often as possible, and a relationship develops.
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Under Gordon’s tutelage, Selina begins to blossom. Some of her disclosures to him about her life believe him with apprehension and a determination to do something constructive about it. While he goes about trying to improve her quality of life, their relationship deepens, despite the warnings of Gordon’s brother. After all, Selina is white, uneducated, and comes from a trashy, dysfunctional family, while Gordon is shaded, well-educated, and from a kindly family.
Selina, distinct that what she feels is admire, is less restrained than Gordon about her feelings, though their budding romance culminates in nothing more than a chaste kiss. When Rose-Ann finds out whom Selina has been meeting, however, matters arrive to a head, and Gordon comes to the rescue. A novel day knight in luminous armor, however, Gordon does the selfless thing in the demolish.
This is a incredible movie in which the two main protagonists, Gordon and Selina, believe each other by the command of their respective character and not by the color of their skin. Though controversial at the time, this film may seem a puny dated by today’s standards. Yet, some of its themes are as unique today as when it was filmed. The idea of selflessness and putting the needs of another before one’s have remains timeless. This is a conception, however, rarely seen in today’s films.
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Although this was Ms. Hartman’s debut film, she deservedly received an Academy Award nomination for her sensitive portrayal of Selina. Unfortunately, her career never really took off after this film the device one would have expected after a performance of this caliber. She appeared only in a few distinguished films, such as, “The Group”, “You’re a Titanic Boy Now”, and “Beguiled”, before descending into virtual obscurity. I was saddened to hear that she committed suicide in the tedious nineteen eighties at the age of forty-five, a tragic figure in the kill, leaving leisurely this lovely performance for posterity.
The key to the success of this film is its simplicity, including that it’s in dusky and white. There is nothing to distract you from being enfolded in its beauty, and so your emotional involvement in characters, setting and place is complete. It is a perfect period fraction belonging to 1965, but its appeal is timeless. It’s personal appealto me was as strong as if I were dreaming, and had the role of the blind girl! I dangled in emotional suspense until the very last scene, which shouldn’t be revealed to those who haven’t seen it! As an allegory of the civil rights movement, it spins the anecdote of sinful injustice that could’ve continued were it not for one individual intervening for proper (as in a tiny number of plucky people’s protests bringing an slay to the darkness of Jim Crow injustice) . This is also a amazing modern-day Cinderella epic, complete with a prince (Poitier) who breaks the spell of the corrupt mother (Winters) . However the film is viewed the quality shines! The most notable point in this film is the juxtaposition of characters, in which Poitier’s character represents the boom of reason and responsibility, a ground-breaking role for a dim man in 1965.
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