The Best Years Of Our Lives Movie Citation

The Best Years of Our Lives1946
In class one of the movies we watched and discussed was, The Best Years of Our Lives
The movie is about these three men that come back from the World War II. It tells the story of these men coming home and their ups and downs it takes to get back to normal life. Al (Fredric March) is the older, upper middle class, higher ranked man in the Army, he was a banker before he left for war, he also has a wife and two kids at home. Homer is the younger middle class from the Navy, back home he lives with his family and next door to his girlfriend Wilma whom he wants to marry, but is no unsure if she will want too due to him losing his arms in an incident on the ship. Fred is Aviator Pilot for the Air Force, He is part
Al’s first night home he wants to go out and party with his wife Millie (Myrna Loy) and daughter Peggy, instead of staying at home enjoying each other’s company. They tend to do a lot of bar hopping until Al is highly intoxicated and the end up at Butch’s Bar which is Homer’s uncle, their they see Fred and Homer and do a bit more drinking. Al and Fred drink too much and Peggy offers to take Fred to his wife’s apartment, but when they get there he cannot get the door open so he goes home with Al and his family. Later in the movie you see Al drinking just about every evening this very well might be post war
When he got back home, to his parents’ house where he previously lived his wife wasn’t there. His parents told him that she had moved out and was living in an apartment, and that she was working at a night club. Fred then left to set out and find his wife, when he could not find her he ended up at Butch’s, where he found Homer, Al and Al’s wife and daughter. That night when Fred has to go home Al’s family he has a bad war dream that’s wakes Peggy and she goes to see if he is okay. Peggy tries to ask Fred about it but he doesn’t want to talk. This is another sign of post war depression, not wanting to talk about the bad things that happened to get them out and relieve the pain and worry. Fred and Peggy begin to become attracted to each other. Later in the movie they have lunch and Fred kisses Peggy and in the time this movie was made a man did not fool around with other women when they were married. Fred’s wife invites Peggy to go on a double date with her and Fred, Fred is unhappy that Millie wants to spend money to go out. It was hard for veterans to find jobs after the war so Fred and Millie did not have much income and she was buying things and wanting to go out, when they did not have much. The double date led Peggy to see that Millie was not interested in Fred she was all about money and no love. Fred gets fed up with Millie and they get a divorce. At