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All That Heaven Allows Over The Searchers

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1) Describe your experience watching All that Heaven Allows. Why did you choose to watch a melodrama (rather than The Searchers)? What about the film stood out to you? What did you find interesting, important, surprising and/or confusing? I chose All That Heaven Allows over The Searchers based on genre preference. I am not a fan of Westerns. I love old movies especially Melodramas one of my favorite film genres. What female doesn’t enjoy a love story especially one laden with controversy and social stigmas and not to mention, Rock Hudson the very handsome leading man. I found it interesting and loved the setup of the plot. The newly widowed older woman begins dating. She has her eye on the young handsome gardener working in her yard. Douglas Sirk does a great job at setting up the plot with all the social stigmas associated with Carrie and Ron …show more content…

One is the use of frame-within-frame stylistic shots. Sirk uses this affect multiple times throughout the film. When Cary is looking out the window at Ron’s country home with the beauty of the snow falling. She is later shown at Christmas after she had broken up with Ron in a similar view of her looking out the window pane with the snow falling. Conversely, this time she is lonely and in despair as her children did not show up for the holidays. This shows a different point of view of the character’s state of mind. At the end of the film, the same window pane shot is used again. Ron is lying on the couch recovering from his fall. Cary looks out the window and the snow is falling and a deer comes to feed near the window. She looks and sees the beauty and serenity of his home as Ron awakens. Another scene was the one where Cary gets a television set for Christmas. It was implied in the film that watching TV keeps lonely women company. There is a shot of Cary seeing her reflection in the TV screen implying her emotional state that she now is a lonely old

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