Scarlett's Strength

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2004)

This is quite possibly the greatest movie of all time. I absolutely love it. I have seen the movie about 100 times and it always gets better. Scarlett O'Hara is the ideal heroine. She is strong-willed, intelligent and resourceful. I especially love the portrayal of her as caretaker of the weak. Had it not been for Scarlett, Melanie Hamilton and her child would have died in Atlanta. She worked to protect her family, and even to care for the woman who was married to the man she loved. She is vibrant and I aspire to imitate her courage and strength. The only flaw in the making of the film is that because of the nature of filming one cannot hear the thoughts of the characters in an epic like this one. It is those thoughts which give the real insight to who Scarlett O'Hara truly is on the inside. It is in those thoughts where she truly shows her gentle side and how she must be courageous for the sake of those around her. She, at times, seems to be uncaring, but it is only because she must be the source of everything for so many others. Tara would not have survived the Civil War, nor any person on the plantation, had Scarlett not been there.