Blanche DuBois, a high school English teacher with an aristocratic background from Auriol, Mississippi, decides to move to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley Kowalski, in New Orleans after creditors take over the family property, Belle Reve. Blanche has also decided to take a break from teaching as she states the situation has frayed her nerves. Knowing nothing about Stanley or the Kowalskis' lives, Blanche is shocked to find that they live in a cramped and run down ground floor apartment - which she proceeds to beautify by putting shades over the open light bulbs to soften the lighting - and that Stanley is not the gentleman that she is used to in men. As such, Blanche and Stanley have an antagonistic relationship from the start. Blanche finds that Stanley's hyper-masculinity, which often displays itself in physical outbursts, is common, coarse and vulgar, being common which in turn is what attracted Stella to him. Beyond finding Blanche's delicate ...
off screen rape, mental illness, middle aged woman, sister sister relationship, domestic violence, new orleans louisiana, nervous breakdown, rape, pulitzer prize source, based on play, title spoken by character, secret past, working class, polish american, expectant mother, drunkenness, brother in law sister in law relationship, expectant father, aging, light bulb
Elia Kazan's claustrophobic close-ups do a fine job of recreating the intensity of the stage.
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