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The_Comatorium

http://thoughtsfromthebooth.com/2013/05/31/film-review-mr-smith-goes-to-washington-1939/

My review

10 years 11 months ago

Absolutely stunning. Shamefully enough, I went to see it without really knowing what to expect. Captivated by its inclusion in various noteworthy lists and by its laudatory reviews (and because it's Capra and Stewart, after all), I decided to check it and was blown away. It's amazing how a simple story, simple characters and, in its core, an overall simple movie can convey such powerful emotions and transmit such a great and timeless message. Highly recommended.

10 years 10 months ago

LMTR14

utter SHIT

10 years 6 months ago

mabu mabu

The

was completely unnecessary; it damaged the whole movie in my opinion.

10 years 3 months ago

briafly27

I LOVE this film. It's your classic James Stewart character. You feel his pain, love him immediately, and you're pulling for him all the way through.

9 years 11 months ago

sve

Very patriotic. Great dialogues. Its the good old Constitution against the forces of evil...Women and African american are powerless. The fight and victory of the underdog. Not very realistic, and very ideological. Mr. Smith could be a bit more relevant in court and the ending is a bit ..nhe..predictably unrealistic - they just had to make him win somehow.

9 years 4 months ago

Siskoid

I kind of expected Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to be something of a precursor to some of the aspirational political fictions I love (The West Wing, for example), and in many ways it was. But Jimmy Stewart's idealistic junior Senator is really the lone good man in a huge corrupt machine that almost destroys him, and so it really isn't one of those utopian stories where civil servants really want our best interests. Alas, the film's right-minded patriotic sentiment hasn't lost its relevance. I wish it had. But it seems more needed than ever. And so Mr. Smith must keep going to Washington to remind us of of what's right. Only the character tends to be naive and cheesy, the movie isn't. It actually does a good job of vulgarizing what the Senate does and how it works (or doesn't), acts as effective satire at times, and provides a killer political climax (though also a bit of an abrupt ending). Hasn't lost its teeth!

7 years 1 month ago

demagogo

now this is some american imdb mafia bullshit

6 years 1 month ago

Kublai Khan

What a strange movie, and a strange reaction that Americans have to it.

It's not just propaganda, but the main character is someone who bought into previous propaganda and is upset that the real world is different from the legends of governments past.

Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, et al were all human beings who were greedy and petty and compromised on their ideals. The government of Capra's time or today's time is the same as it's ever been. People looking out for themselves.

Cinematically and thematically, this movie isn't very good.

3 years ago

diirtyharry67

https://archive.org/details/MrSmithGoesToWashington1939480x360

10 months 4 weeks ago