Monday, April 03, 2006
Clang Clang Clang Went The Trolley...
"Meet Me In St Louis" was a gap in my American pop culture eductation that I studiously filled yesterday. Laden with classic songs and a light touch, as opposed to drama, catharsis, or character development, the film nonetheless evokes a 1903 St Louis family with two marriagable daugthers in loving Norman Rockwell Technicolor©®.
Judy Garland is a delight, playing a love-struck 17 year old not far from Dorothy Gale, with a girlish enthusiasm and a strong adult voice. Boy eye candy abounds. As a gay man, I definitely feel connection to Garland. Her shy romantic scenes, in which she and the boy are too flustered to kiss, is charged with what we see as sexuality and hormones but which that era glossed over as 'true love'... I still have 25 minutes left before I return this film tonight, with 5 others viewed over the weekend. Tomorrow: Brazil. But more on that later....
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