Word: realism
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...Enchanted Cottage" deserves a good notice. No reviewer who has urged realism and honesty upon a film industry plagued with artificialities can fail to wonder whether RKO has not pioneered the way toward artistic integrity--and the thought of artistic integrity on Hollywood is rather startling. "The Enchanted Cottage" is warm, unaffected, ingenuous realism--however much one may doubt that it is good entertainment...
Another point stressed by Karpovich was the "realism" that dominates the thinking of the country today. Instead of the fatalism now implied by the word, Karpovich would substitute the meaning of "recognition of an evil and a quest for a remedy...
Provided with a theme of exceptional realism and emotional intensity, the writers and directors have spent their efforts in futile attempts to add extraneous humor and pathos to the film...
...churches make a dent on San Francisco, it will be because they have studied the problems of peace with unaccustomed realism. Last week John Foster Dulles, spokesman for the Protestant crusaders, summed up their view: "This time it is of the utmost importance that we be realistic. We must see the Dumbarton Oaks proposals for what they are-a good start. . . . San Francisco must be looked to not as a stopping point but as a starting point...
...scenes. It is the more touching, too, for not being cheaply sentimental. It portrays unfortunate young people who are also, quite plainly, fiberless; it balances what is pathetic in the mother's situation with what is comic in her character. But The Glass Menagerie veers off from straight realism to become a kind of mood play, something projected as a "memory." It makes use of a narrator, filmy curtains. dim lights, atmospheric music. All this adds something, on occasion, as theater; but it takes away a good deal as art. A mood that should flow delicately...