Anatomy of a Murder
For 1959 this movie has a lot of things going up against it. The movie was originally banned in Chicago and James Stewart's father took out an ad calling the movie, "a dirty picture" warning people not to see the picture. A lot of the controversy surrounding the movie was because of the language with words like, "bitch," "contraceptive," "panties," "penetration," "rape," "slut," and "sperm" and was one of the first films to challenge the Hayes Code.
Once you can get beyond the 'inappropriate language' of the movie, settle down because you're in for a great movie. Finally, after having watched The Hours and The Wild Bunch a movie that I really liked. As in, this would be an acceptable birthday present. I wasn't trying to figure out the plot and where the movie was going and that's the way to watch this movie. It was great to watch the movie and wonder what was going on with this lady that she didn't seem to understand how important the impression she made on the jury was, or that if things weren't pieced together just right at the end her husband was going to be convicted for murder despite the fact his wife had been rapped. Or had she? Where were the panties she had told the jury she was wearing that night and if she wasn't a bit of a slut why did she keep appearing to come onto her lawyer?
Oh and then the end of the movie! I loved it. It was perfect. I typically am not a big fan of open ended movies, because well sometimes I like for things to be spelled out for me. But this? This was perfect. I loved that the couple fled town in the middle of the night and that their trailers sight looked like maybe her husband did have a bad temper when he was drinking and killed the man out of anger when he found out she was more than willing to have sex with him. After all, that's nothing the deceased would have been opposed to, he had a daughter out of wedlock.
Final thoughts: For those who were interested in this movie, I really hope you've watched it before reading this. I hate spoilers but it's one of those that you can't really talk about with keeping the end of the story a secret for very long.
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4 comments:
I just watched Anatomy of a Murder for the umpteenth time. Now I have finally figured out the ending. Jimmy and his partner are smiling while looking over the trailer trash left behind, knowing they were hood winked about two un-great full clients they just saved. They skipped out without paying the lawyers fee. I always thought they found something in the trash that proved the husband was guilty of murder, but not to avenge his wife getting raped. But ...then again......Oh well,, maybe I better watch it again.
This blogging is hardly "a spoiler". It's a viewpoint, at best. It does not explain the characters, plot or ending. Comment number 1 says more than the blog did.
How nice to read people's thoughts on a recently watched classic movie.
But how did Stewart get paid?
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