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Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was

Suddenly Last Summer (1959)

It's Tennessee Williams again. This time a one act play drawn out to full feature film length. Katherine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and a badly worn out Montgomery Clift.

This is another message from the closet. A smothering mother. A delicate and special son. John said that he had never heard so many euphemisms for describing a gay man. Well, he isn't gay. He is a closet case.

We do not see the man. Only the story of the people around him.

There are a lot of weird themes in this.

I didn't like it much.

I don't even want to write about it. Left a bad taste.

I will give it a 2 out of Netflix5.

Labels: best films