Thursday, August 15, 2013

Sleek 'Dark Victory'

LAST NIGHT WAS HEAVENLY.  I watched the clever, psycho-flavored 1939 film called 'Dark Victory on Turner Classic.  What a marvelous movie experience.  In this 'Dark Victory' Bette Davis plays the part of a wild, edgy woman with numerous mental oddities and then later in the film story her brain goes into a crazed angst and she faces death.  The imaginative performances of Bette Davis, George Brent and Geraldine Fitzgerald are mesmerizing in this quirky movie.  I find films of the 30s and 40s are indeed so sparkly and full of strange filmdom colors and tones of soulful thought.  It is such a heavenly pleasure to thoroughly enjoy a movie. With 'Dark Victory' the enjoyment level is so high. Also the acting work of a young Humphrey Bogart (playing a horseman) is emotionally satisfying and so vigorous intellectually in this one. Indeed the one called 'Dark Victory' in the total sense is such a gigantic, huge win of an experience.

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Nice Writing

THE GOOD terse writing of Ernest Hemingway is a real joy.  He does not use too many adjectives.  His 'Torrents' is a fine tome.