![]() Dorothy McGuire, not a particularly interesting actress, is Laura the young servant girl, suffering from crippling shyness and social awkwardness -and a total lack of familiarity with the practice of grooming and use of cosmetic products. And what's so horrifying about his barely scarred face and limp arm is really not enough to alienate him irrevocably from the society of fellow human beings. Robert Young, a forgettable film actor, plays rich guy Oliver, a wounded war veteran who returns to the family country cottage to hide his perceived hideous physical deformity from the world. ![]() ![]() But I can't remember the last time I watched something so totally disgusting, and I watch Troma movies. The direction and cinematography are both outstanding, I liked the score, the acting wasn't bad. And if you have the misfortune to fall in love with someone who isn't 100% able-bodied, good news! Your imagination will magically heal their disability, allowing them to talk to others without shame! There's also a guy whose blindness has made him a saint, because if you're disabled you're only allowed to be bitter or a source of inspiration for the able-bodied. The movie teaches us that it's okay to love someone even if their hair isn't fashionable, but don't worry because the power of love will transform them into a supermodel (or in the case of this movie, someone who looks exactly the same but with thinner eyebrows). There's this amazing scene where the guy's saying how this woman can't possibly understand what it's like to be so disfigured, but before he can finish he just looks at her shuts up, because of course she knows what it's like to be disabled! I mean, she's not wearing lipstick! This movie tries so hard to hammer in the idea that ugly (or disabled) people can only love other ugly (or disabled) people, and that attractive people will flee in terror from mild scars or uncombed hair. Only instead of being ugly, the woman doesn't wear makeup, and instead of being crippled, the man has some kind of vague paralysis in one arm and a scar. So this is a movie about a woman so hideous that she's ostracized and shunned, and a man so disabled that his family plans to hire a live-in nurse and force him to live at home. ![]() The question is Why did they have to see each other as beautiful, before they could find happiness? and is the movie very unromantic and false?, watch it and decide for yourself When they find out it is only in their minds, it disappoints them, but since they see each other that way it dosen't matter. A sudden transformation takes place, they now see each other as beautiful, and are as happy as two love birds and they really believe that they have physically changed. The maid falls in love with this man and they marry, but the husband cannot get past her homeliness, and she is devastated. He secludes himself in the cottage and when his future wife sees him, she calls off the wedding. World war I breaks out, and he joins the air force, putting their marriage on the back burner, he is shot down and returns home scared and disfigured in both body and mind. A Young couple rent the cottage for their upcoming wedding, the man is handsome and dashing, the woman beautiful, and sophisticated. The story is basically about a homely young woman who is a maid in a honeymoon cottage on the coast of England somewhere. It is rarely shown on TV anymore, but I was lucky enough to catch it on TCM recently, and in revisiting it, I found a disturbing element in the plot, that I didn't notice the first time I watched it. I saw this movie many years ago and thought it was one of the most romantic movies of all time. I believe in love and I love love, but this was about two people who settle for each other out of desperation and unforeseen wartime injuries. They overdo it with the "homely" girl who can only find love with a deformed-faced man and side stories include a blind man playing the piano while narrating and a little boy plays with a dog and in-laws of the bride shrek at the "homely" bride and their deformed-faced son but they last and "love" each other in the end. Long story short, an alright looking girl (who would be beautiful in 5 minutes with some makeup and a comb through her hair - you will see her beauty transformation later in the movie when things get "enchanting") marries a depressed man with a half-handsome, half-stroke looking face. I fell asleep a few times but I pushed through because the cinematography and music are gorgeous (I gave it 5 stars for those reasons along with the cottage keeper/owner's performance. Last week, I saw this for the first time and the pace was painfully slow.
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