Just Get On With It
I've been watching episodes of Mad Men, Season Two back to back, absorbing an era when people dressed incredibly well, lived and played hard, died by the time they were 62, kept their emotions to themselves, and did not go to 12-step programs or at least did not talk about them in public. If something horrible happened in their lives they would act as if it never occurred and would just get on with it. Has our society advanced? Some questions don't need to be answered.Labels: 1960s, advertising., Mad Men, Manhattan
posted by Ladrón de Basura (a.k.a. Junk Thief) @ 9:09 PM
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6 Comments:
Still -- it's a patriarchal world where everyone, especially the women, are caged by prescribed social roles. Some people did not like REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, but it demonstrated how pre-near-Liberation days drove people crazy. Not that I don't enjoy restraint, as in Henry James novels, the film IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, etc. -- the "classical"? "Apollonian"?
Jim - Well, it's probably a trade off of what was better now or then and which gender you are.
I've been wanting to watch this. And now that it's been given your stamp of approval, I will do so.
Salty - I was a bit suspicious with all the hoopla around the Emmys, but once I got hooked I got hooked in a big way. The acting, on the whole, is superb, as is the attention to subtle period detail. It's definitely aiming to capture reality, not a camped up version of the early 1960s.
mad men is set in the era when women are called girls and bisexual men are still afraid to come out.
Streetsmart - Indeed. It's an era where there are nasty things beneath the attractive surface which is the whole point of the series.
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