Dysfunction because distraction
24 November 2007
"Woman of the Year" (1942) directed by George Stevens is a young comedy that stays young, after all these years by its polyglots scenes even at first sight or superficial appearance, for all beginners in this genre of dramatic artifact. Where we don't know exactly even nowadays by what way acting : maybe also as living at office or at home as to cope with the same like on stage since then.

Specially when the main characters, either or at the same time, as here like such columnists, whose function for one of them was recollecting gossips from political arena or for the other allowing that baseball and so on interfered with such woman, that never pull out her enlarged white hat on the stadium. Another scene was presented as if it was a clue of the lack of privacy from the couple of pitchers from the high society - perhaps during the German occupation in Europe, just before the end of 1941 when the adoption of a Greek child was motive for a storming dispute - like in a kind of guest flat and party dance for the newly-wed, attended by the cronies and where during that evening late in the bedroom guests are as sleeping with the clothes at the place of the bride and groom as if for it they were already in their own home. There is many activity from her own calendar of daily events in which she participates as like the shadow of the first lady, it seems by the scene in the theater where he is like a clever and patient though guy among happy feminists, a tolerated human being by her fellows in that time of causes and tea with toast bread.

I agree that one of the most interesting scenes was that on the kitchen, when both are there for the breakfast and any domestic gadget or device as objects are on malfunction, not well preparing toast bread or the like as usually before, namely because distraction of the candidate as being woman of the year, observed by his skeptical mate for the great regret of her. This is his home and not like it was in her flat before, from where she comes in reconciliation after a first separation since their wedding.
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