TEA and SYMPPATHY came out in 1956, the year before I was Born: October 22, 1957! As I was walking a certain distance, Today in the early afternoon for exercise, off RIDDLE Road, from PROBASCO Street, where I live, I suddenly saw this parked car's license plate containing a "double" 56, before another vehicle in front of it had 7747! For some reason I felt a strange urge to memorize those Numbers in my mind, using exercising my mind muscles to remember, to write all down upon returning to my room. Thus, doing so, I put in my mind's eye my Self-ASKED Question (my 3 initials to my full Name: Albert Stephen Kundrat also uniquely spelled as "ASK" to "ASK" any Question, especially these 2 Special Questions: "WHY 19"56"? Why DOUBLE EMPHASIS on this year's number being 56? That didn't make sense to Me until I sat on my Bed in room 319, TO WATCH THIS: TEA AND STMPATHY (1956) REVIEW, under TOBIN FITZTHUM! So this is my Study Lesson and THEME for Today, April 24, 2024!
the list isn't really in order, but if I had to bet on what I will watch next I think a child is waiting, La fille sur le pont, holy motors, point blank, and claudine are fairly likely. it's always big ordeal figuring out what to watch. dw i will do dead man walking before too long
Is there any place where footage of the film is available. I’d love the make a video concerning it, but because Tea & Sympathy is more obscure, footage is hard to come by. All I’ve come across are promotional stills and theatrical posters. The best quality I’ve seen was a TCM some years ago. It’s a damn shame far too few people know about it. Anyway, great review!
It has been released on DVD at least. You should be able to buy the DVD online if nothing else. I know that the New York Public Library has a couple of copies. Might be worth checking a library near you. Don't think it's on the Criterion Channel sadly.
I view this film as a "world turned upside-down" or "inside-out" story. In a way, it's relatively straightforward. The opening song, "Plaisir d'amour," sets the plot: "The pleasure of love lasts only a moment, the grief (regrets) of love lasts a lifetime." What kind of love is it? and who are the lovers? The setting is a New England style prep school, the atmosphere that of a British boarding school rife with submerged and supercharged homosexuality. Tom is a vaguely effeminate and sensitive young boy whom everyone thinks is homosexual but isn't. Alternatively, Tom may just be teetering on the cusp between heterosexuality and homosexuality. He's of that age. On the other hand, he may actually be gay. He does say he falls in love with the wrong people - whatever that means. It's a little simplistic, but all the aggressively masculine characters are actually "repressed" homosexuals. They attack Tom because he represents their inner demon which they wish to excise. Deborah Kerr is the temptress who in response to their torments "tempts" Tom into heterosexuality. Her husband is emotionally distant, and she has needs. By so doing, she's both recognizing and liberating her husband's demon. Tom's friend, Al, actually loves Tom, but he doesn't know how to tell him. Al ripping off Tom's clothes/pyjamas is symbolic consummation. Obviously, the whole episode of the "initiation" is chock-full of symbolism. So, at the end of the film, can we conclude Tom is straight because he's married with kids? Well, that would also describe Vincente Minnelli, the director. Overall, a well-crafted and well-acted realisation of what's ultimately a tragic story.
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TEA and SYMPPATHY came out in 1956, the year before I was Born: October 22, 1957! As I was walking a certain distance, Today in the early afternoon for exercise, off RIDDLE Road, from PROBASCO Street, where I live, I suddenly saw this parked car's license plate containing a "double" 56, before another vehicle in front of it had 7747! For some reason I felt a strange urge to memorize those Numbers in my mind, using exercising my mind muscles to remember, to write all down upon returning to my room. Thus, doing so, I put in my mind's eye my Self-ASKED Question (my 3 initials to my full Name: Albert Stephen Kundrat also uniquely spelled as "ASK" to "ASK" any Question, especially these 2 Special Questions: "WHY 19"56"? Why DOUBLE EMPHASIS on this year's number being 56? That didn't make sense to Me until I sat on my Bed in room 319, TO WATCH THIS: TEA AND STMPATHY (1956) REVIEW, under TOBIN FITZTHUM! So this is my Study Lesson and THEME for Today, April 24, 2024!
One picky thing. Kerr is pronounced like Carr for both Deborah and John.
Kerr like Star! I have since mended my ways
What’s the next 10 movies you have on your list to watch?
the list isn't really in order, but if I had to bet on what I will watch next I think a child is waiting, La fille sur le pont, holy motors, point blank, and claudine are fairly likely. it's always big ordeal figuring out what to watch. dw i will do dead man walking before too long
@@TobinFitzthum ok thanks
Is there any place where footage of the film is available. I’d love the make a video concerning it, but because Tea & Sympathy is more obscure, footage is hard to come by. All I’ve come across are promotional stills and theatrical posters. The best quality I’ve seen was a TCM some years ago. It’s a damn shame far too few people know about it. Anyway, great review!
It has been released on DVD at least. You should be able to buy the DVD online if nothing else. I know that the New York Public Library has a couple of copies. Might be worth checking a library near you. Don't think it's on the Criterion Channel sadly.
I view this film as a "world turned upside-down" or "inside-out" story. In a way, it's relatively straightforward. The opening song, "Plaisir d'amour," sets the plot: "The pleasure of love lasts only a moment, the grief (regrets) of love lasts a lifetime." What kind of love is it? and who are the lovers? The setting is a New England style prep school, the atmosphere that of a British boarding school rife with submerged and supercharged homosexuality. Tom is a vaguely effeminate and sensitive young boy whom everyone thinks is homosexual but isn't. Alternatively, Tom may just be teetering on the cusp between heterosexuality and homosexuality. He's of that age. On the other hand, he may actually be gay. He does say he falls in love with the wrong people - whatever that means. It's a little simplistic, but all the aggressively masculine characters are actually "repressed" homosexuals. They attack Tom because he represents their inner demon which they wish to excise. Deborah Kerr is the temptress who in response to their torments "tempts" Tom into heterosexuality. Her husband is emotionally distant, and she has needs. By so doing, she's both recognizing and liberating her husband's demon. Tom's friend, Al, actually loves Tom, but he doesn't know how to tell him. Al ripping off Tom's clothes/pyjamas is symbolic consummation. Obviously, the whole episode of the "initiation" is chock-full of symbolism. So, at the end of the film, can we conclude Tom is straight because he's married with kids? Well, that would also describe Vincente Minnelli, the director. Overall, a well-crafted and well-acted realisation of what's ultimately a tragic story.
If all the males are repressed homosexuals, that is totally silly. All men aren't repressed homosexuals. The symbolism is chock full of nuts.