Death of a Salesman

(1985)

RATING:	100%
FORMAT:	DVD

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The definitive Death of a Salesman told, appropriately, in the first person.

A father lives through his sons and passes this ethical emptiness onto them. He represents the many delusions behind the American Dream: False bonhomie, mirthless cheerfulness, materialism, self deceit, emotional atrophy, etc. Here, you are what you can sell – nothing else matters – so it is hardly surprising this rational business attitude eventually infects personal relationships.

Dustin HOFFMAN dominates as Willy Loman – as his ranting bully character should. An employee who thought he was an employer; an immature man who cannot help his children grow up and away from the false protection of his insignificant shadow. He hates to see his sons as they really are because this would remind him that they mirror his own failings.

Well cast throughout.

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