Meet Me In St. Louis Movie Review

Movie Review, Meet me in St. Louis (1945) Although we have yet to learn about this specific time period, I could not resist the urge of writing a review about a timeless film that is centered on the one-hundredth years anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. Meet Me in St. Louis take place in the year of 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri. The main historical significance was the World’s Fair that celebrated the Centennial of the Louisiana Purchase, a territory sold by France to the US in 1803 comprising of the western part of the Mississippi valley. The movie is overall extremely accurate. The actors in the movie acted very similar to the time period, from their dress to their manners. The movie mainly depicts the story of a family living in St. Louis who’s father attempts to move them to New York because of a job promotion and of his love for the city. The historical event of the World’s fair comes at the end of the movie when the family all dresses up in white and attend the fair. The only small mistake I saw was in the movie they showed many mountains and St. Louis is on a prairie with little mountains. Other than that it was very accurate. The movie says a lot about the time period itself. First, we can see that superstitions played a role. In one scene on Halloween night, some of the girls dress up and throw flour in someone’s face and say they hate them in order to “kill them”. Also, the way they thought about love and marriage was much different. In the movie, the girls fall in love very quickly and are proposed to at a young age, which is often much different then modern day. Also, we can see from the movie that money plays a role in lives. The father tried to uproot his family in an attempt to make more money to support the family and provide for them. Finally, events were much more formal during the early 1900s. The girls constantly wore pretty dresses and the men were usually wearing ties. At the high school dance they had assigned dancing partners and