Film · MGM · 1942
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Random Harvest
54Watch it awake.
He makes a whole marriage and then forgets it, and she stays without making him look.
The review
Ronald Colman comes back from the war without a memory, builds a life with Greer Garson, and loses that life when the older memory returns. She finds a way to stay near him without being known. A house can watch it. I could, and I kept wanting to shake him, which is not fair to a man who cannot recall what he promised.
The lost marriage is the whole night. What you sit with is a wife doing a marriage the husband cannot see. It was a large melodramatic hit, so the ache is how they sold the ticket. Fine for a household that can stand love without a name. Skip it if you wanted to be soothed.
Journal
Keep Random Harvest in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Casablanca
68 instead of 54
Casablanca is still a romance film, and it scores 68 instead of 54. What you gain is republic: A occupied city, and a man who stops pretending it is only a nightclub.
The eight
- 4Industry
He makes a life after the war, but a job is never what the story is about.
- 9Household
The marriage is the life he builds and then cannot remember.
- 5Piety
She will not force a man who cannot remember to face her as his wife.
- 7Courage
She gives up being known as his wife and stays near him anyway.
- 3Republic
A veteran's memory is the wound, and no town is asked to answer for it.
- 4Temperance
The hit is built so you ache for a recognition the story withholds.
- 6Truth
The marriage was real, and living beside him unnamed is the bill.
- 5Stewardship
What remains is a wife he cannot place and a life he already spent.
Where to watch
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