Review of Imitation of Life (1959) by Kyle M — 03 Jan 2015

Before the nice consisted time skip, it wasn't being interesting despite having few warmth. But after the time skip that shows great growth, it can be found that it was performed with heart and emotions, and the purpose of the story was to nicely-express different issues. However, while the issues of complicated relationships and race was being expressed, there was a black spot that was the heart's threat to lower down the film's level when it wasn't appealing to watch. Although, at the time, it'd provided a fresh insight on the race issue.

The threat through that was Susan Kohner's character being the drama's black spot who became annoyingly stubborn with misunderstanding of her difficult but okay situation when she was going off for nothing like she's the one creating and stirring up the problem, not Juanita Moore's character of pure caring and loving (she's like James Baskett's Uncle Remus's role as a parent). The way how horrible the character become, Kohner may had her moments when trying to redeem respect - the characters' and the viewers' - after her semi-mediocre performance of portraying a horrible, grown-up girl (her Jo Ann Greer dubbed singing voice probably made her character look much worse when singing away from her black mother).

The 1959 version of "Imitation of Life" may have been brought down by Kohner's performance and character, but it'd done well on its purpose of expressing the presented issues alongside being performed with heart and emotions by Lana Turner, Moore and Sandra Dee. So to say on whether it's eligible for another viewing, I could say it's re-watchable even though it's mixed. (B-).

(Full review coming soon).