Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...central mystery and plot element of the film, Anna's disappearance, is never explained or resolved. The characters' lives remain aimless, disenchanted, fraught with a low-lying depression and highlighted by occasional bouts of manic energy. Claudia and Sandro drift towards their own terrible resolution without resolution, while the rest of the characters drift out of the film entirely...
There is no doubt that this adaptation of the Wyatt Earp tale is better than all the others, the only interesting question concerns the level of excellence that Ford achieves with this film. On the surface, the plot seems too trivial to deal with moral questions raised in the movie. With such clear-cut issues and black-and-white characters. "My Darling Clementine" finds nuance to be an unreachable plateau. "My Darling Clementine" is about good vs. evil and the triumph of the American way of life. Tombstone is a town where the law rules thanks to the strong hand...
...minutes, this film is a model of efficiency and a textbook for narrative film-making. There are no unnecessary scenes or storylines and the plot progresses quickly and confidently. Ford set out to portray simple characters in simple situations, and in "My Darling Clementine" he accomplishes this...
...wonder why she was the only one getting mental help. Of course, Davies makes the point by having the only mentally balanced characters in the film die. This may, however be a bit presumptuous in regards to the father, whose death is the only cause for a dubious plot, and who has expired before the film even begins...
...spoken. But to judge any serious music-theater work as if it aspired to be Hamlet or Death of a Salesman is wrong. Even in the heyday of Harrigan and Hart and Cohan, it was the music and the production numbers that drove the action. Who today remembers the plot of a single Gershwin show? True, it was Hammerstein who condensed Ferber and gave her characters sharp, affecting lyrics to sing. But it was Kern, in a majestic score that moves fluidly and freely among such disparate idioms as vaudeville (Life Upon the Wicked Stage), the Viennese waltz...