As Good As It Gets

Admirable film.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A top line description says this is a romantic comedy. And so it is: a soldier on leave in New York City meets a girl. They fall in love and get married before he ships out to the war.But the movie, intelligently directed and wonderfully acted, never loses sight of how lonely the two main characters are, how aware they are the randomness of how they came together and the risk they are taking being in love.Two scenes stand out. They get separated in a crowded subway and realize with real despair that they have no idea how to find each other. The emotion in the scene and when they find each other is real, not rom com cute. Toward the end of the movie, they are married. It's the morning after wedding, their only night together. They silently pour coffee, married, yet still strangers, facing an enormously uncertain future as he ships off in the morning. The war hangs over the scene the way it hangs over the entire movie.Their wedding ceremony itself, In a closed government office with the words drowned out by trains, followed by a meal in a cheap dinner, manages to be funny while staying consistent with the undercurrent of loneliness. It is an wonderfully mature romance, closer in tone to Lost in Translation than a typical rom com.One more note: New York City should have been billed as a co-star. It captures the feel of the city as few movies ever manage.

This was a low budget film which had relevance in 1945.It is not the magical love story it presumes to be but a travelogueof NYC.The actors do not appear to be two young people falling in love as it is supposed to appear to be.It is true they are young people but they don't come off as naive or immature.There is no depth of story or plot to attract interest.The movie didn't make that much money but it wasn't a flop either.These two actors could have done better in a another movie with an intriguing plot.

"The Clock," like "Waterloo Bridge," is one of those films that doesn't conform to any set rules, but breaks them instead.Robert Walker is a soldier on leave and has 48 hours to do whatever he wants and arrives at Grand Central Station friendless and nowhere to go in particular. He asks a gentleman how to "get out of this place" trying to make a friend, but the man leaves him to his own devices. Judy Garland is an ordinary girl who stumbles over Robert's feet, and from there on in, they're like glue. (By the way, Judy does not sing at all in this film.) At first, she keeps saying she has to be somewhere. But finds herself wondering why and will it hurt to be nice to this soldier and keep him company. As they spend time together, she gets to like him. But for him, it didn't take that long. They wander around New York with nothing to do in particular but just being together. But what happens when his leave is over, and is it right to marry a girl at all, given the circumstances? Will she wait for him? And, who knows what condition he'll be in, if he comes back at all!"The Clock" may be overshadowed by Vincente Minnelli's "Gigi," "An American in Paris," and others, but I would go so far to say, that not only is this his most personal film, but maybe even his crowning achievement in simple storytelling and conveying the reality of the common people. You don't see Garland and Walker, but a girl and a guy. You feel like you're seeing portions of a real day in the life of these people. A true testament to the talent of the stars and the movie's director and a loving look at the dreams of us all.

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