Saturday, March 29, 2008
Blog 9: A Streetcar Named Desire
Hi again everyone! I’ve read this play by Tennessee Williams before and I am very excited to watch this movie. The play that I’ve read is very interesting and I do not known whether the movie will be as good as the play. After watching A Streetcar Named Desire, I am satisfied with it because from my observation, the movie is much similar to the play. The story evolves around Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski and Harold ‘Mitch’ Mitchell. Blanche comes to New Orleans to seek refuge at the home of Stella, her sister and her brutish Polish husband, Stanley Kowalski. As the play progresses, readers get to know more about Blanche and the type of person she really is in contrast with the type of person she would like other people to think she is. Blanche is the protagonist of the movie but she degenerates into madness at the end of the movie. She cannot let go of her past and accept the present world because she lost the love of her life and she feels that she fails as a woman because her late husband is a bisexual degenerate. The present to her is very painful and she prefers to live in her own world without pain. The movie enhances my understanding of the play as I can see the setting of the play and how the characters in the play are portrayed in the film. In my opinion, this film is worth watching, especially to those who read/ learn A Streetcar Named Desire.
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this play very exciting as it shows the outcome of two sister who being raise in a same place and same family background and they grew up as a two different person.Stella has a family and move on with her life while Blanche on the other hand became a high class prostitute. It is a pity to Blanche because after all that happened to her, her sister Stella the only one who could have save her betray her at the end.
I agree with you that A Streetcar Named Desire is a worth watching movie for those who had read or learned about the play because watching a movie enhance our understanding instead of just reading the play.The character that i pity most in this play is Blanche DuBois because like what you say: she cannot let go of the past and is hard for her to accept the present. She lose her husband, ran to New Orleans to seek refuge at Stella's home but her ways were rejected by Stanley and Mitch and finally she became mad. It is such a pitiful lady that she thought of seeking refuge but in the end, her fate reversed and became mad.It is true that this movie is interesting.
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