reflections in a golden eye by carson mccullers

Overall it's an intelligent film whose main theme is repression and ultimate frustration of desire with it's tragic consequences. The film, which is basically a serious drama, turns out to be something of a cynical human comedy, due to 'ridiculousness' of all of it's characters and the way the story is told by film's director - John Huston. Army Major in an isolated military fort somewhere in the south, who gradually discovers his homosexuality and Liz Taylor, simply great here in the role of his cheating wife. Reflections in a Golden Eye is a 1967 American drama film directed by John Huston and based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Carson McCullers. What we have here is a good drama whose story is based on a book by Carson McCullers, featuring superb performances from Marlon Brando who plays a U.S. While generally the later is accepted as his masterpiece 'Reflections in a Golden Eye' is misunderstood as Huston's 'misfire', as a 'flop', an opinion with which I tend to disagree. Perhaps if I trace and preserve for other generations the effect this success had on me it will affect future artists to accept it better.Reflections in a Golden Eye' was recognized by John Huston himself as his most important film of his late period along with 'The Man who would be a King'. That, combined with all my illnesses, nearly destroyed me. I became an established literary figure overnight, and I was much too young to understand what happened to me, or the responsibility it entailed. 'I think it is important for future generations of students to know why I did certain things, but it is also important for myself.

When the author was interviewed by Rex Reed on her final birthday, McCullers revealed her reason for writing an autobiography: Looking back over her life from a precocious childhood in Georgia to her painful decline from a series of crippling strokes, McCullers offers poignant and unabashed remembrances of her early writing success, her family attachments, a troubled marriage to a failed writer, friendships with literary and film luminaries (Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Wright, Isak Dinesen, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe), and her intense relationships with the important women in her life. Dews has faithfully brought her story back to life, complete with never-before-published letters between McCullers and her husband Reeves, and an outline of her most famous novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. McCullers-one of the most gifted writers of her generation-died of a stroke at the age of 50 before finishing this, her last manuscript. Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers (2002)

Reflections in a golden eye by carson mccullers