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Gone with the wind
Cast
Leslie Howard: Ashley Wilkes
The film goes for almost about 4 hours and it is amazing for its ability to get under the skin of characters and their transitions. It has portrayed with the depth the change in emotions and behaviour of the characters according to the events that go in and around their lives and yet keeping the essence of the characters intact. Scarlett O'Hara the lead protagonist is seen to be self-centred and her behaviour and her actions are driven by ego. But at the core of it, all her decisions are for the well being of 'Tara', her house in Atlanta. In the whole course of the film, she is always after certain desires. Firstly Ashley Wilkes, whom she loves, then getting out of widowhood after her first husband dies, then keeping up the promise of Ashley to protect his wife Melanie. The intermission, when her home is destroyed by the yankies during the war, shows the transition in Scarlett where her true hidden desires have been made aware i.e. taking care of Tara and it's people, as the true character of human is known when he/she is devoid of basic survival needs. After all the struggle to live a good life, she finally becomes rich when she marries Rhett. Her life is misguided with all the money and sophistication, and the relationship that has been developed with her character starts to loose. Once again with the death of Melanie and Scarlett's Daughter Eugenie "Bonnie", she confronts with her true self and knows of her hidden desires.The characters development in the film has been excellent as they go through the various emotional behavioural changes that a human goes through like a sense of pride and ego, a feeling to run away from responsibilities, facing the death of close ones, the complexities of love and hate and so on
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