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Great Film overall

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

. . . on U.S. military bases will laud and attest to the accuracy of how these "home-sweet-homes" are depicted during REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE. Prompted by a book from a whistleblower commonly code-named as "Citizen Carson," this movie adaptation faithfully depicts the fact that few if any of these lodgings for "the brass" boast window shades, blinds, or curtains. To boost base morale, officers' spouses take turns as exhibitionist-of-the-evening, parading in the buff through brightly-lit rooms near the unadorned windows. When they are not on such "T.A." duty, these ladies are at the beck and call of any officer superior to their husband's rank, Citizen Carson reveals. Though U.S. colleges have long been mislabeled as the hedonistic epicenter of American debauchery due to their wild faculty parties and swinger culture, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE discloses that military service is the place to go for the best in bedroom kinkiness. This was especially true prior to the "Don't ask, don't tell" days, when the closeted or latent types made EQUUS look like a carousel ride in the park by way of contrast. FORREST GUMP's famous box of chocolates was probably a metaphor referencing the surprises afforded by Southern Belle military wives as they're unwrapped, given their penchant for body modification by garden shears, Citizen Carson unveils in her REFLECTIONS.

A US Army base somewhere in the South, late-1940s/early-1950s. A quiet, relatively unimportant base, it is the model of serenity. On this base we have Major Weldon Penderton (played by Marlon Brando), a lecturer in military tactics and strategy. He's married to Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor). There's also Lt. Colonel Morris Langton (Brian Keith) and his wife Alison (Julie Harris). On the surface, everything appears normal and uneventful. However, dig a bit deeper and you'll see that there is no passion in the Pendertons' marriage - they barely tolerate each other. Mrs Penderton is having an affair with Lt. Col. Langton. Mrs Langton has mental issues. Then there's the strange, voyeuristic, repressed Private Williams (Robert Forster)...Directed by John Huston, starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. Three icons of movie making - surely a recipe for success? Well, not entirely.Slow moving, with brief sparks of intrigue. this movie never kicks into a higher gear. It was never entirely boring but never fully engaging either. The movie seemed set up for a profound ending but the ending was reasonably predictable and inevitable.While there are some decent themes, especially involving repression of feelings and desires, these are never explored too thoroughly. Interesting enough, but not overly engaging or satisfying.Solid performances by Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Brian Keith, Julie Harris and Robert Forster. On the negative side we have the character Anacleto, played by Zorro David. An incredibly badly and irritatingly drawn character, badly played with dialogue badly dubbed.

Dear Alfred Hitchcock,you should have directed this film instead of John Huston. It was right up your alley. It has a heroine (a plump Elizabeth Taylor) who is obsessed with her horse. Her husband (Brando) is an army major who is struggling with his repressed homosexual desires. There is a depressed woman (Julie Harris) next door who has long boring conversations with her feminine Filipino servant. Then there is this solider (Robert Forster) who likes to sniff Taylor's lingerie. The whole thing is set on an army base during peace time. It might be a bit unsubtle for your tastes. But this film needed your directorial prowess. You would have made a racy and thrilling film. Huston wastes too much time on scenes and lets Brando mumble to his hearts content.The sepia tinged frames were quite interesting though. The film does look great. There is a lazy dream like quality to it. Almost as if Huston is saying that these people are being wasted away and succumbing to their sexual desires during peacetime when they are not required to be at their best. The final scene of the film when Brando shoots Forster was pretty interesting. The camera pans from Brando to Taylor to Forster and goes on like that - left, center right for a few times. But that's the only interesting part of this dull and boring film full of strange relationships.I have the book by Carson Mccullers but I have not read it.Best Regards, Pimpin.(5/10)

A very deep and hard going arty film. In my opinion Brando only made a handful of entertaining films, this ain't one of them. I've been putting off watching this for years, having just viewed it I can see why. Brandos dialogue, what little there is, is muffled and extremely hard to understand. Would he really be a major teaching young officers tactics in a classroom when his dialogue is so illegible, sometimes Brando can be so hard going that you can lose interest in films he is in. The Filipino servant of Julie Harris is just unbelievably annoying especially his voice.the other thing that is jarring is the almost sepia picture- way too arty for its own good.About the best thing about this movie is the gorgeous and sexy Elizabath Taylor.