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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Brando's Stanley Kowalski is an untamed, searing bully breeder. Leigh's Blanche DuBois is multiplex in drag and as breakable as a once fine tea cup that life has chipped at unflinchingly. Somehow the great Tennessee Williams pits them in a dogfight for alphadom and what ensues is not naturalistically pretty but brutally honest as everyone reaches the pinnacle of high art. Kim Hunter plays the sometimes understanding sister and almost always faithful wife of the sexist brute that created her G spot and Karl Malden portrays Mitch as a lonely and desperate sad sack whose sickly and overbearing mother has sheltered him from the tricks Blanche employs to entrap him. These two are the yes men who are the observers and recipients of the fight the two brass are sanctioning to the death. Kazan masterpiece. 06-Feb-2017