Review of All My Sons

The story is wonderful. It is clean of the usual flurry of characters going in and out of the screen. There is much dialog and less time wasted on introspection and private thoughts you have no idea if they are meant to be heard by the audience of by somebody else. The actor play is quite good and the characters are drawn well with a sure hand, mostly to the credit of the play author.

On the technical side I loved how the screen was also clear of most useless objects. For example the opening scene that follows into the garage. You see there are not one but two cars. The cars are big. They seem new because they are clean. And the garage is large enough for the two characters to move around with the two cars parked inside. So they are well to do. Also, later on, you realize there are two cars because only *men* drive cars. That is made clear by the remarks young women receive. So this is quite a patriarchal environment. I get to see nothing else in the garage. Not the mess of a storage shed. No other accessories.

What breaks the well executed film is the end which might as well be shot afterward without director or script just to give the story an optimist look.

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