If there is anything Golddiggers wants to remind their audience it is that there are no happy endings in the depression. Hollywood musicals help create this nice form of escapism for their viewers going through hard times, but at the end of the day everything's not okay and people do not get rich just because they fall in love. Golddiggers shows the harsh realities of the Great Depression in it’s final number “Remember My Forgotten Man”. The Great Depression was something that was happening; people were starving, losing their homes and their jobs. There was no quick fix, one quick action that would solve everyone’s problems like in the movies. This film, with its final number, is a critique on fantastical escapism that are the films of this time.
“Remember My Forgotten Man” is an analysis on the Great Depression and on its effects it brought to everyone. It brings it all the audience back to reality, like pulling back the curtain or a splash of cold water to the viewer’s face. Soldiers are the symbols of American honor and pride. This number shows the irony of how the country’s heroes were the ones that were treated the worst. They were betrayed and failed by the country with its promises. It is almost a representation of us failing as a country. The song the film chose to use …show more content…
Throughout the film Barbara Stanwyck’s character, Lily, has gone through horrible things and experienced the worst of society starting off with her father selling her off to prostitution at the age of fourteen. You never question the hardships people had to go through in these difficult times, and how it changed people into the hard empathic people. There is a lack of love that is show throughout the film, and it is filled with greed and selfishness for survival which feels like a after to the ending of Golddiggers’ ending’s
“Remember My Forgotten Man” is an analysis on the Great Depression and on its effects it brought to everyone. It brings it all the audience back to reality, like pulling back the curtain or a splash of cold water to the viewer’s face. Soldiers are the symbols of American honor and pride. This number shows the irony of how the country’s heroes were the ones that were treated the worst. They were betrayed and failed by the country with its promises. It is almost a representation of us failing as a country. The song the film chose to use …show more content…
Throughout the film Barbara Stanwyck’s character, Lily, has gone through horrible things and experienced the worst of society starting off with her father selling her off to prostitution at the age of fourteen. You never question the hardships people had to go through in these difficult times, and how it changed people into the hard empathic people. There is a lack of love that is show throughout the film, and it is filled with greed and selfishness for survival which feels like a after to the ending of Golddiggers’ ending’s