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Jenna
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Imitation of Life
« on: Feb 12^th, 2005, 7:59pm »

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In Douglas Sirk's emotionally and visually extravagant final film IMITATION OF LIFE, a life's work of subverted melodrama and razor-sharp social commentary are brought to a resounding and baroque climax. In a role that closely resembles and perhaps parodies her own life, Lana Turner plays Lora Meredith, an aspiring actress and single mother who meets Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), a black and similarly single and struggling mother. When they move in together, Annie assumes the role of domestic servant and the two women struggle together to raise their two daughters. Annie's daughter, Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner), favors her father whose skin tone resembles her own extremely light skin, and she slowly comes to resent her mother's black identity. Transcending the feminist labeling that IMITATION OF LIFE risked, the film freely mixes Meredith's rags to riches (with a hefty moral price tag) tale with Annie's scarring struggles to teach her daughter to accept her identity. As Meredith climbs higher and higher in her glamorous rise to stage and screen stardom, she ignores her vulnerable daughter Susie (Sandra Dee) and creates a devastating contrast for the racial and social tragedy that transpires in her own household. With a deft mixture of icy detachment and morose sentimentality rendered through a transcendent art direction, Sirk leads the film onto an inimitable crescendo of highly adorned emotion and tragedy.

This is an older movie, but definatly a very good one. This is my favorite movie of all time. It was much better, in my opinion, than the origonal in 1934 origonal. There are several tear jerkers in this one, and raises a very good point about racism. Even though most people belive that racism is gone, they are wrong. Racism is still alive, and will unfortuanly never die. I have seen this movie so many time since I was little, and plan on showing it to my classes after I'm done teaching them what the school distric requires. If you haven't ssen this movie, I urge you to.....It won't disappoint you.

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