The Best Movie of Our Lives

Rating: 10/10 (31 May 2006)

A perfect film (how many times can you say that?) that compliments "Since You Went Away." One deals with servicemen, and women, entering the war, and this film deals with them coming home. There are many touching and heartbreaking scenes that are executed so brilliantly yet also so simply. The perfect example is the scene where Milly is clearing the dinner table when the doorbell rings. Suddenly she knows it's her husband, Al. The tenderness of the scene will reduce you to tears. The running theme throughout is how hard it is to return home, from seeing horrors of war, and go back to "ordinary" life. The men, their families and their country have all changed.