The Human Comedy (1943) :
Brief Review -
Another Clarence Brown trademark beauty! Childhood, teenagehood, manhood, and old age-4 steps of human life amidst war presented in a heartwarming manner. Brown has to be the king of human drama and coming-of-age dramas for some people, and you can count me among those "some." I was expecting The Human Comedy to be a comedy drama because of its title, but it came out as a moving human drama. This was a shock, but a pleasant one. Brown has given me another human drama to remember. Another human that I can relate to in 4 different age groups of my own life. Therefore, it's a film that can be watched by 3 different generations together in one family, and even in that last generation, you can see two categories, like teenage and childhood. The Human Comedy has a teenage boy taking on the responsibility of the family after his elder brother has left for war. Hia younger brother is living his childhood, and then we have a spirit of their father taking to us about life and how he is still alive even after his demise. The schooltime lesson is there. That small but life-changing conversation between the student and his teacher, who encourages him to be civilised and never forget him, touched me. The 5-year-old boy going to steal at a garden and that old man teasing them from the window/house brought tears of joy to my eyes. I could feel my childhood (past) and old-age days (future) in that one moment. The little one asking his mother about death and war and the way she answered him took me back to my childhood days when I used to ask a lot of questions to my mother, and she used to teach me many good things with her answers. Those young soldiers going to a movie with beautiful girls in the rain and then happily saying good-bye, without looking back and enjoying their own time, was a perfect way to celebrate youth. That's not all. There's more in the film. Just watch and feel it. I can't go on because I am in tears at the moment.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest.
Another Clarence Brown trademark beauty! Childhood, teenagehood, manhood, and old age-4 steps of human life amidst war presented in a heartwarming manner. Brown has to be the king of human drama and coming-of-age dramas for some people, and you can count me among those "some." I was expecting The Human Comedy to be a comedy drama because of its title, but it came out as a moving human drama. This was a shock, but a pleasant one. Brown has given me another human drama to remember. Another human that I can relate to in 4 different age groups of my own life. Therefore, it's a film that can be watched by 3 different generations together in one family, and even in that last generation, you can see two categories, like teenage and childhood. The Human Comedy has a teenage boy taking on the responsibility of the family after his elder brother has left for war. Hia younger brother is living his childhood, and then we have a spirit of their father taking to us about life and how he is still alive even after his demise. The schooltime lesson is there. That small but life-changing conversation between the student and his teacher, who encourages him to be civilised and never forget him, touched me. The 5-year-old boy going to steal at a garden and that old man teasing them from the window/house brought tears of joy to my eyes. I could feel my childhood (past) and old-age days (future) in that one moment. The little one asking his mother about death and war and the way she answered him took me back to my childhood days when I used to ask a lot of questions to my mother, and she used to teach me many good things with her answers. Those young soldiers going to a movie with beautiful girls in the rain and then happily saying good-bye, without looking back and enjoying their own time, was a perfect way to celebrate youth. That's not all. There's more in the film. Just watch and feel it. I can't go on because I am in tears at the moment.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest.