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  • groaningbitch
    February 12, 2008
    groaningbitch
    fritz lang's "clash by night" is a psychological drama about the paradoxical mentality of female perplexity about life and its harboring cease. babara stanwyck would be the individualistic rebel lady who drifts everywhere to seek her dreams even eventually she winds up with "big ...( read more)dreams, small results"

    stanwyck plays mae doyle, a woman who wanders from home for 10 years, a prodigal daughter retreats back to her homeland with one bitter remark "home is the place to go when you run out of places", a woman who wants her man to "fight off the blizzards the floods" just to make her feel "confident"....a egoist who abides nothing but motivated by her anguishes to live and explore the world with novelty. a woman who claims that she would never be satisfied enough to give any man happiness since her character is webbed with too much ambivalent affirmations to be genuinely tamed by any man, and mae shrewdly sneers at the world with her sass and sharply sardonic wits until she meets her fellow rebel earl (robert ryan) who is a cynical grudgy man embittered with spousal tumults, uttering quibs like "wouldn't you wanna cut a beautiful dame up?" "i like the woman who stays on ceiling when i throw all of them above"...a volcanic man with enough individuality to rival mae....and this resistant ambiguity also arouses mae's animosity.....thus she chooses to marry her another suitor jerry with the clumsy looks of ape but has a generous heart of gold despite his simple-mindedness cannot provide the thrilling kicks of life mae's always craving for.

    it might appear somehow melodramatic but the script offers plenty of wisecracking wisdom between the lines to depict each character with enough distinctive contour of humanity. and the episode of marilyn monroe who plays the girlfriend of mae's brother is also quite pleasantly juxtaposed with her talks of feminism and refusal of being trapped as cannary in marriage....

    inevitably mae's being lured away by charismatic earl who whispers love with more refined skills than stupified jerry....ultimately mae succumbs to her sense of feminine duty instead of her intense drive of egoism....accurately speaking, she lifts up the veil of her selfism to ripe into mature womanhood since the world is not always "her disappointment, her unhappiness"...

    only brilliantly talented stanwyck could incarnate into such fickle role with multiple outbursts of complexity conviningly....only stanwyck has enough charisma to redeem this character with comprehensible pathos...a well-performed stagy flick upon the theme of woman and her choices over the crossroad of life.
  • brooklynspo
    April 26, 2007
    brooklynspo
    The potential ultimate noir coupling of Stanwyck and Ryan results in this solid but not quite socko near-noir.

    DVD features great Bogdanovich talk thru - for which, to judge by his level of enthusiasm and preparation, Peter was compensated a sandwich, a soda and chips.
  • mjgildea
    October 31, 2006
    mjgildea
    It's not that great, but I love it.
  • HOOEROS
    May 17, 2009
    HOOEROS
    Barbara Stanwyck was a great leading actress..still Marilyn was adorable.
  • alexroy69
    March 12, 2009
    alexroy69
    En partant, l'inclusion de ce film dans le genre du film noir est extrêmement discutable. Certainement, on retrouve un travail soigné au niveau des nuances du noir et du blanc, et dans une certaine mesure il y a une femme fatale (bien qu'étant foncièrement différente de l'archéty...( read more)pe habituel), mais ça s'arrête pas mal là.

    Ce qui ne veut cependant pas dire qu'il s'agisse d'un mauvais film. Si on le prend pour ce qu'il est, c'est à dire un mélodrame, c'est même un film assez efficace, et puis ça demeure du Fritz Lang, donc rien à redire au niveau de la réalisation qui est foisonnante de symbolisme (parfois un peu gros, parfois plus subtil, mais on est habitué).

    La vraie force du film réside cependant dans le jeu des acteurs, qui forment un trio vraiment solide. Barbara Stanwyck, qui a plus d'un film noir à son actif, livre une performance de femme acerbe et cynique assez mémorable, tandis que Robert Ryan est parfaitement dégoûtant dans le rôle du faux ami qui veut se sauver avec votre blonde. Et Paul Douglas, quant à lui, se façonne un caractère qui n'est pas sans rappeler Lennie dans le célèbre bouquin de Steinbeck. Tout le long, on attend le moment ou sa force brutale va se déchaîner malgré lui.

    En partant, je suis pas mal vendu à Lang, mais également à ce type de film "stagy" (c'est quand même adapté d'une pièce) qui rappellent un peu Tennesse Williams. Le thème général de l'oeuvre m'a accroché, mais c'est une appréciation tout à fait personnelle, et je suis conscient que c'est un film qui peut rebuter certaines personnes. Mais pour moi, ça a été une agréable surprise.
  • 339z
    January 24, 2009
    339z
    well umnn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch its got a good cast of actors/actressess throguhout this movie..i think that marilyn monroe plays a good part thorughout this movie...its a good 1950's movie 2 watch...i think that the directo...( read more)r of this mystery/suspense/drama/classic movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie its a good movie 2 watch..its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie n its really enjoyable throughout this movie
  • Ghw12158
    September 4, 2008
    Ghw12158
    a little slow but it really builds
  • beachpeach
    July 15, 2008
    beachpeach
    A story about a woman who was always hard to pin down, who decides to settle down with a kind man who loves her and have a child. But, can she stay put? or will she ruin her new life for good with the brooding movie theatre owner?
    Monroe also has a monor role here as a doe-eyed ...( read more)tomboy who doesn't like getting pushed around.
  • paladin98133
    April 25, 2008
    paladin98133
    Very good, edgy melodrama.
  • blue4u3
    June 3, 2007
    blue4u3
    serious topic - infidelity
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