{"id":1105,"date":"2021-12-04T15:29:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T15:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2025-06-03T09:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:04:46","slug":"the-way-we-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2021\/12\/04\/the-way-we-were\/","title":{"rendered":"The way we were"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks again to COVID the other day I watched \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070903\/plotsummary\">The Way We Were<\/a>\u201d starring Barbara Streisand &amp; Robert Redford*. Expecting a 1970\u2019s love story I was surprised to be watching a political commentary on the 30\u2019s, 40\u2019s and 50\u2019s very well crafted into a hard to watch \u2018love story\u2019 from a 1970\u2019s mindset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It could have been made today as an observation on our \u201ccancel culture\u201d. Leftist idealogues calling anyone who differed with them \u201cfascists\u201d. The promulgation of communism amongst the young as the solution to the world\u2019s problems (despite the evidence). Protests. People, even film producers, losing their jobs over their political beliefs. Government inquiries. It\u2019s all there. All set against a backdrop of a real war against real fascism and a cold war against communism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2021\/12\/katies-piece-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1107 size-full\" srcset=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2021\/12\/katies-piece-1.jpg 474w, http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2021\/12\/katies-piece-1-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019ve never seen the film there\u2019s a good description&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070903\/plotsummary\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Set in the period from the mid-1930s to the 1950s, a love story involving two markedly different people. Katie is an idealistic, uptight, Stalin-loving political activist. Hubbell is an easy-going, athletic, all American-type, and a talented writer. We see their different personalities affect their relationship and how they (<em>almost<\/em>) manage despite the differences\u2026&nbsp;<em>italics mine<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also found the film depressing in it\u2019s possibly unconcious portrayal of a promiscous world in which real love and loyalty do not exist and marriage is non-existent. A child is born to a single mum whose \u201cpartner\u201d leaves her. In that regard, thank you Hollywood. Great job, not! But as a political\/social commentary well worth a watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*P.S. Is it me or did Redford go to the same drama school as Pinoccio?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a fuller commentary on the USA go <a href=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/the-u-s-a-and-the-way-we-were\/\">here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks again to COVID the other day I watched \u201cThe Way We Were\u201d starring Barbara Streisand &amp; Robert Redford*. Expecting a 1970\u2019s love story I was surprised to be watching a political commentary on the 30\u2019s, 40\u2019s and 50\u2019s very well crafted into a hard to watch \u2018love story\u2019 from a 1970\u2019s mindset. It could &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2021\/12\/04\/the-way-we-were\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The way we were&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}