Film · Universal · 1934
Pass it on
Imitation of Life
61Watch it awake.
The daughter passes, and she will not claim her mother.
The review
The pancakes are the part I was tired enough to hide behind. A white widow and a Black widow go into business, and the money is real. Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers. A large hit. A house can watch it. Then the easy part stops.
The Black daughter grows up refusing her mother so she can pass. She will not claim the woman who made the life possible. I said that before anyone called the partnership sweet. Honest work can sit next to that refusal. Don't let the recipe carry the night.
Journal
Keep Imitation of Life in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
High Noon
74 instead of 61
High Noon is still a drama film, and it scores 74 instead of 61. What you gain is courage: He walks the street alone.
The eight
- 8Industry
Two widows run a pancake business, and the money is real.
- 9Household
The daughter grows up and will not claim her own mother.
- 3Piety
Nothing in her stops the refusal of that mother.
- 5Courage
The widows start a business; the daughter will not stand by her mother.
- 7Republic
She passes, and uses that against the mother who raised her.
- 4Temperance
The want to pass is spent against the mother who made the life.
- 9Truth
She passes, and the lie is refusing to claim her mother.
- 4Stewardship
The business is left standing, and the mother is refused.
Where to watch
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