Thursday, May 15, 2025

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Eugene: I know what your son is to you, and it frightens me. Let me explain a little. I don't think he'll change. At twenty-one or twenty-two, so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible. Which forty sees as nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this. Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty.

The great Joseph Cotten was born 120 years ago today.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Brilliant man, brilliant film (despite the butchery).