Gone With the Wind Reflection

 Before starting the movie Gone with the Wind, I wasn't sure what I was going to think. With it being an older movie I just expected it to be boring and just another movie. But now after watching the movie, I know I found it more interesting than I anticipated. Watching the different relationships showed how different things were back then. 

The movie uses the relationship between Scarlett and Rhett to show how the war had an impact on everyone's life. Scarlett had just gotten married and had lost her husband to the war right after she had gotten married. Scarlett had to sacrifice staying with her parents by going and helping those injured from the war. With Scarlett's husband, she didn't seem to think he would be coming back from the war as she married him just to make another man jealous. She didn't even seem to be sad after she found out her husband wasn't returning since she ended up dancing with Rhett when she was supposed to be mourning. 

The bad part of this movie is that it doesn't seem to show how bad slavery was. The women encouraged their men to go fight in the war, which supported the south. It just showed how much those who they worked for depended on them a lot. Scarlett seemed to ask for a lot of help with tasks she could easily do herself.  

 I personally don't think that this movie would be as popular if it was released today. I feel like those that watched it didn't think anything wrong of how the slaves were treated. They used it almost as "validation." Those that watched it all had just dealt with the war and everything that happened. They were able to relate in certain ways that if it was made back then and released now, it could be less watched and talked about. I think if it was current and popular if it was released in todays time, it would be popular in a negative light rather than as entertainment. 

sources:

https://civilwar.vt.edu/gone-with-the-wind-1939/

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1490&context=honors-theses