Filed under: scotchscotchscotch, So this one time God got drunk, womens and gender studies
….Scotch apparently, and lots of it.
I’m not quite sure that “The Best of Everything” (1959) entirely lives up to its title. Or perhaps it does in an unintentionally (?) cynical way. The pedestrian storyline, speckled with events such as marriages, miscarriages, affairs, and nervous breakdowns is just a glimpse into one woman’s very very small world. The best of her everything is supposedly the best of every city girl’s everything, and what is that even? Not much more than a 20$ a month salary increase, and a slap on the ass. Oh, and love too. Don’t forget love. However even that department is riddled with realistic failures. The educated ambitious women are portrayed as cold hearted and lonely in the permanent positions of weekend mistresses to married men, while their more wide-eyed naive counterparts get bamboozled by no good playboys who use the word “love” like a handkerchief.
But one thing is for sure, have a sip of scotch for everytime they drink in this movie and you’ll be completely hammered by the abortion scene (that we all totally saw coming).
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