About a movie: The way we were

Hello everyone!

The last time that I write something was in 2009. Now, in 2012, is really great re-write about me in a language that I like very much. I love movies, because it's possible to see different lifestyles, cultures, and create other worlds, like aliens, hobbits in a "fictitious" past of the humankind, magic things like floating things, etc.

Today, in the first post to the class, I'm going to write about a 1973 romantic drama that I really like because it showed me an interesting story about love, and how sometimes it's not possible to think in an eternal love. This movie is The way we were, starring Barbra Streisand an Robert Redford.

Katie Morosky and Hubbell Gardner met in college in the 1930s, but their differences are immense: she is a stridently vocal Marxist Jew with strong opinions about everything (in these time, her opinions were anti-war), and he is a carefree WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, a closed groups of high-status mostly with British protestant ancestry), and he don't have a particular political bent. She is drawn to him because of his boyish good looks and his natural writing skill, which she finds captivating, although he doesn't work very hard at it. He is intrigued by her conviction and her determination to persuade others to take up social causes. The two meet again at the end of World War II. Katie is working at a radio station, and Hubbell, having served as a naval officer, is trying to return to civilian life. They fall in love and marry despite the differences in their background and temperament. Soon, however, Katie is incensed by the cynical jokes Hubbell's friends make and is unable to understand his acceptance of their insensitivity and shallow dismissal of political engagement. At the same time, his serenity is disturbed by her lack of social graces and her polarizing postures.

Although they are in love, cotidian problems are very common for differences about life: Katie tried to Hubbell seeks a job far way of Hollywood, becoming a serious witter because he's skills to do. With blacklist and McCarthyism encroaching on their lives, Katie's political activism resurfaces, jeopardising Hubbell's position and reputation.

Katie and Hubbell decide to part when she finally understands he's not the man she idealized when she fell in love with him and will always choose the easiest way out, whether it is cheating in his marriage or writing predictable stories for sitcoms. Hubbell, on the other hand, is exhausted, unable to live on the pedestal Katie erected for him and face her disappointment in his decision to compromise his potential.

In the film's final scene, Katie and Hubbell meet by chance, several years after their divorce. There, is finally clear about their story: both are better by each other when are together but love is not enough if they try to live it with perfection and how each thing it's right.