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Title: Ken's Op
Review: The 1961 film, Splendor in the Grass, stars Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty has a running time of 134 minutes. Elia Kazan directed this Warner Studios film portraying high school sweethearts frustrated with kissing and heavy petting while struggling with efforts to refrain from having sex. The story takes place just before the Great Depression in Kansas during a time when people were very sexually repressed. Natalie Wood plays the part of a "good" girl who temporarily goes insane and attempts suicide because her boyfriend (Beatty) follows his fathers advice and has sex with "a different type of girl". Life changes so much for both of them after school, and the film eloquently portrays that it isn't always fair. Although the film is in black and white, it soon becomes unnoticeable because the engaging performances of Wood and Beatty and a very interesting story, which is why I give it four stars.
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