Those films with message

Abstract

In this article the film theorist Siegfreid Kracauer give us an unexpected interpretation of the socalled «progressive» movies so frequently produced during the American postwar era. Far from reflect the social spread of liberal ideas in the United States of America, Kracauer argues, that films like Crossfire or The Best years of Our Lives have a strange inconsistency. For him all of these movies strike a note that sounds progressive, in a vaguely liberal way, but in a closer analysis they reveal the profound weakness of the very cause for which they try to enlist sympathy.