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Examine the representation of the main characters in 'Brief Encounter' what do you learn about social class and moral attitudes of this film?
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Examine the representation of the main characters in 'Brief Encounter' what do you learn about social class and moral attitudes of this film? Brief Encounter was produced in 1945, Carlton visual entertainment, and directed by David Lean, who also directed 'great expectations'. The film is a simple but realistically-honest, unsentimental, self-told social melodrama of the quiet desperation involved in an illicit, extra-marital love affair between two married, middle-class individuals over several weekly meetings. The screenplay was adapted and based on playwright Noel Coward's 1935 short one-act play 'Still Life'. This film gives an optimistic representation of the middle classes / upper classes. It gives a traditional idealised image of England in the 1940's. Laura, the main character is married, she is a housewife who stays at home looking after the children and the house. The husband is the head of the household and earns the families income. His character...
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