All That Heaven Allows Blog

As I watched the film All That Heaven Allows, I was constantly thinking about the world melodrama/melodramatic and how it can be applied to this movie. To be honest the movie was a melodrama but it wasn't a film that gets you sucked in to the characters emotions which usually occurs in melodramas. To me the movie was very interesting because many popular books/films have a similar theme where two completely different people fall for each other. Cary the widow in the film falls for her gardener Ron who live completely opposite lives. Cary enjoys meeting with her country club friends, lives in a mansion and attends all these events, while Ron simply lives in a cabin, and enjoys the simple things in life. Eventually Ron proposes to Cary and she excepts, but her children cannot stand the fact that a man like Ron would replace their father. Falling under the pressure Cary decides that she must break off the engagement. In the end of the film Cary realizes that she shouldn't have changed her mind in the first place and she should have stuck with Ron. One of the things I enjoyed about the movie is how the director cleverly uses certain scenes to display the differences in the lifestyles between Cary and Ron. In Cary's mansion she has windows that are small which describes her lifestyle. Cary is in her little hole and doesn't enjoy life to the fullest. Ron has huge windows that describes how he enjoys the simple things in life, and lives life to the fullest.