Movie #226........................."Since You Went Away"

Movie #226 "Since You Went Away" is a film I have heard about for years, but never got around to watch it. The scope of it is epic because it tries to cover all those emotions that go into the family that is left behind, and all they do to keep on going when they keep hearing bad news about neighbors and neighbors' kids dying in WWII. There are wonderfully sad scenes at the train station, at a canteen party, in a movie house watching a war newsreel, that say so much about what people had to go through who were left behind. It is, indeed, a powerful war film without showing one minute of the war itself. There are signs it was a movie that was made to give hope to those left behind, and for that reason it becomes an excellent history lesson to us all. It reminds us what people are going through now, and it constantly makes me ask: why do we have to do this? why in a world that we have become so technologically skilled, can't we have become more civilized in our thinking about sending our men (and now women) to a war. If we are so smart of a society, why can't we problems solves other ways to solve our world problems. And films like this, should be re-seen by all to remind us that we have to get to the job of making peace and not war! sorry, I'm on a soapbox, but this film just reminds me of all the sacrificing that was done and continually is done in the name of freedom.




Average rating: 3.821
I gave it 4 stars
Since You Went Away
(1944) NR
Anne Hilton (Claudette Colbert) is the wife of a businessman who becomes an officer during WWII. Fighting back her own fears and anxieties, Anne strives to maintain a normal, stable household for the sake of her growing daughters Jane (Jennifer Jones) and Bridget (Shirley Temple). Monty Woolley and Joseph Cotten co-star.