My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Look Back In Anger (1959)

A story meant to mirror the angry disillusion felt by Britain's youth after WWII quickly becomes a love triangle with a hero undeserving of love.  I guess this is the point of John Osbourne's script (based on his famous play) but in the end I could care less.  Richard Burton gives a solid performance but it's not very fun to watch an unlikeable jerk mistreat people for ninety minutes.  Sure great art doesn't always need to go down easy but a little bit of honey would have been nice.  Tony Richardson would later continue this theme with a better film, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.  Grade: B  
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