Best Movie Ever!!
Just makes you feel all warm and tingly inside.
Melodrama coming from you is about as natural as an oral bowel movement Clerks
Didn't really work that way on me. It's definitly great though. 8.5/10, but I would have given it a 9.5 or perhaps even a 10 if didn't have that ending. I felt it was in really poor taste.
Somebody here has been drinking and I'm sad to say it ain't me - Allan Francis Doyleshare
I'm just curious, gloede, what about the ending of A Tree Grows do you feel is in poor taste? To be honest, I just don't see anything in poor taste...but perhaps I missed something?
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The silly way everything worked out in just a few minutes. The nice policeman proposing to the mother was just plain idiotic!
Somebody here has been drinking and I'm sad to say it ain't me - Allan Francis Doyleshare
Well, I wouldn't exactly call that "poor taste," rather it was a Hollywood ending. But, what a downer the film would have been if, let's say, the family ended up out in the streets after the father died. Or the mother had to end up being a prostitute just to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. Or Francie had to quit school and work in a sweatshop.
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Actually,
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that's exactly the way the novel ended. It's not a plot contrivance at all, and it was rather obviously foreshadowed all through the film. Nor was the final scene of Francie and Neeley on the rooftop contrived or trite - it's in the novel too. The film did a fantastic job of preserving the novel's major scenes and themes. It's only shortcoming, if any is
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that it stopped just after Francie's and Neeley's graduations, whereas the novel takes Francie up to her 17th year, packing up for college. The novel's final pages have Francie making a nostalgic tour of her old haunts, saying goodbye to the neighborhood in her own way. The novel emphasizes the importance of this farewell - after the war the city plans to demolish the neighborhood and replace it with modern housing. Francie knows that this last Saturday is her last day in her old apartment, her last in Brooklyn, and probably her last in New York. The film's ending would have been tearfully poignant as well as hopeful, had it followed the novel. Of course, Peggy Ann Garner, though she probably could have played a much more mature character with no problem, was still too young physically and chronologically for that to have worked out. So, taking into consideration the impossibility of filming Garner as a seventeen year old, the movie is justified in ending just where it does.