A brilliant insight that has been perpetuated since WWII. Kurt Vonnegut once wrote that America is a prosperous nation because the poor will never admit they are poor, and therefore the elite classes have had less social responsibility since the Napoleonic era. A brilliant playwright, he addresses issue of the family, and struggling economy which today are still avoided. Arthur Miller has touched the reality of American life in the depression. Anyone who has read or seen the play will feel the desperation of Biff, and Happy, young men who witness their father's depression, and cannot alter the outcome. He will die as a salesman, bragging about sales which mean nothing, building up his sons into something they never were. Willy Loman has lived in ineffective and meaningless life. The cinematography is stark and unforgiving. Introducing the cast of Death of a Salesman.Max Kubiak as Biff Loman Max Kubiak (Biff Loman) is happy to be sharing the stage with these fine actors. It is an initial shock to see him as an aged man. John Malkovich and Gary Sinise are very real, as well as Dustin Hoffman. This film counts as one of those that are uncomfortable, well-acted, and disturbingly real.
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