Brief Encounter is the story of a forbidden romance, an affair between a married woman and a man who meet at a train station. Their relationship is expressed in detail from the female character's conscious dialog reflecting on the affair, the lovesick girlish way she behaves around the young man (and before meeting him), and in speaking lies to her husband and friends in an attempt to hide the affair. This is an excellent observational film, and it really gets into the psychology of the characters who have the affair. The romance is so forbidden and sweet that it feels like the romance should go on and they should be together, but morals prevail and the couple soon learns that they must part ways. And they do part, in the most memorable fashion, with wonderful pacing that makes one think that they will, indeed, rush back into each other's arms.
Brief Encounter is a wonderful English film which romanticized the train station. A good observation of characters and a detailed look at social history and marriage during the 1940s, Brief Encounter is to be enjoyed and admired as much as it is to be looked at from a historical and moral standpoint.
Brief Encounter is a wonderful English film which romanticized the train station. A good observation of characters and a detailed look at social history and marriage during the 1940s, Brief Encounter is to be enjoyed and admired as much as it is to be looked at from a historical and moral standpoint.