Review – Gone with the Wind

If you go into this classic of the silver screen with the (false) notion that author Margaret Mitchell intended her famous novel to be ironic from cover to cover, you may find it a lot easier to enjoy what otherwise plays out like an homage to the good old days of the antebellum South. You know, the society based on the evil of slavery and the faux nobility of slave owners. That’s probably not a fair interpretation of the creator’s intent, but it does make it a little easier to swallow. Otherwise you’re stuck waiting for those little glimmers of genuine insight and nobility, generally contributed by the Black characters or other persons considered beneath contempt by the southern nobility (especially Hattie McDaniel as Mammy). Those moments aside (and they become increasingly rare as the movie progresses), the production is interesting for its technical quality and importance to film history, but otherwise extremely overrated. Mildly amusing