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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 film adaptation of the novel of the same
name by Alan Sillitoe. Sillitoe adapted the screenplay himself and the film was directed
by Karel Reisz.
It tells the story of Arthur Seaton,played by Albert Finney, a young
Nottingham factory worker, who is having an affair with Brenda, played by Rachel
Robertas,the wife of an older co-worker. He also has a relationship with Doreen,played
by Shirley Anne Field, a woman closer to his own age.
It is a terrifying glimpse
into an age where work, booze, and death were all that Britain's young men had to
look forward to. "What I want is a good time, the rest is all propaganda," is Seaton's
saying, but in the end, he
realizes he's fighting a losing battle as an affair with
his best friend's wife (Roberts) ends badly. She is pregnant and her husband finds
out about her affair. Arthur earns a beating from the cuckolded husband's squaddie
brother for his peccadillo. He ends up back with Doreen and the final scene takes
place on the top of a hill where both of them are talking about their future planes.
It seem that Arthur is finally realizing that marriage is probably unavoidable. He
has fallen in love with Doreen and they end up talking about what type of house Doreen
would like to eventually live in.
Actually this film takes place about the same time
that the world seems to be going through a cultural revolution that led us into the
sixties. The Beatles,Rolling Stones, and many other groups will come into their own
during this decade.
This is a black and white film that will end up as a true classic
for its time. Finney was voted the most promising newcomer at the British Academy's
(BAFTA) awards. To me it kind of symbolized the struggles that most of us go through
during our rebellious younger years and the inevitable realization about how we are
going to spend the rest of our lives.
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