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Friday, May 22, 2009
What movie most says “Memorial Day” to you?
As Memorial Day weekend arrives, the film that best captures the spirit of the day for me is an easy choice. I don’t debate it for a second. I choose William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives.
This drama was very much of its time. For one reason or another, whether it was dealing with artificial limbs, discovering your wife no longer loved you, or simply readjusting to civilian life, coming home from Word War II was no easy task, no matter how much the soldiers had longed for it. If I could go back in the past and see how a movie played when it originally came out, it would be The Best Years of Our Lives. It still amazes me that it accomplished all this coming out in 1946, only a year after the war ended.
What makes the film all the more remarkable is that the themes in it are so universal, they still resonate today.
What movies will you watch this Memorial Day weekend? And which best sum up that holiday?
PS If you’re looking for my Terminator Salvation review, that’s here.
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