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Title: As a ten year old, I thought, "Squeeeee, I can't believe how perfect this story is!!!"
Review: Even after just one viewing, I remembered most of this movie. Casting Montgomery Clift certainly helped to burn this movie into my brain but the story was a perfect introduction into the world of ulterior motives, followed shortly by my initiation to the works of Agatha Christie. When I was 10, the strongest message I got was that people who don't want to work will marry other people for their money. I didn't even notice the damage done by the father or the disloyalty of the aunt. Thirty years later, the thing I noticed most was that neither of the lovers can NOT live without being with the other. There's no real love lost nor destroyed only ego. This is such a great movie and I don't feel ill-served for having seen it at the possibly too young age of 10. I don't need to rewatch this movie for it to be buzzing behind my brain all these years. It's a classic but even more rare, it's perfect storytelling.
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