“My favorite movie? “The Best Years of Our Lives”, which won the Oscar in 1946.”
Mine too. Amazing picture.
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When I first watched it, we were getting combat troops returning from the Middle East, and it occurred to me that the themes in “The Best Years of Our Lives” were timeless.
Our men coming home were probably seeing things much the same way...everyone going about their business, oblivious to the bloodletting and death, concerned with daily life. And going from an existence where everything you did could mean something or have live and death ramifications, to an existence where there is just a lot of BS and a paycheck, if you are lucky. And people not really understanding what you went through.
I can see how that would be alienating.