On the Waterfront 4K 1954 Ultra HD 2160p

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The plot centers on the fate of a simple docker - Terry Mallow, tormented by doubts and decides to take the path of restoring justice, after it turns out that he works for a real gangster - the corrupt boss of port dockers Johnny Friendly.

Review 4K Movie

Terry Malow, a docker, works at the port, doing a dusty job, moonlighting for his criminal boss Johnny, who talks to him, telling him about his terrible childhood, how he had to work from an early age, and thus makes him keep silent about his dirty deeds, in which Terry and his brother Charlie get involved. But at one fine moment Terry's conscience appeared and the reason for it was the beautiful Miss Eddie Dawley....

In general, this movie perfectly plays the opposition of man and the system. It concerns not only the hero Marlon Brando, but also the rest of the dockers, who are tired of the hard life, who do not want to be silent, and protest, thus paying with their lives. This is the exact opposite of Milos Forman's 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. Whereas there, albeit under different circumstances, the system won, in this case it was the individual who won. Both of these movies are valuable in their own way, but Elia Kazan's movie also shows how not to act in such circumstances. From this point of view, the movie is divided into two parts. On one side, if I may say so, is the 'bad' Terry, on the other side is the 'good' Terry. And right away you can see how clearly it shows the changes that are happening to society, not immediately, but still happening. They are completely opposite. And although justice is served, it is clearly not for those dockers who have suffered, and understandably will continue to suffer, as well as for Terry himself.

There are two absolutely amazing male roles in this movie, in my opinion. They are, of course, Marlon Brando and Karl Molden. The first one, in my opinion, deservedly won the Oscar for Best Actor. Well, and the second was nominated for the same award for male supporting actor. Both of them clearly show a separate social system. It doesn't matter that in this case it's the docks, it could have been any place, the important thing is that they both really excellently managed to show the world from the inside and the world from the outside of that system. The two protests against the system eventually lead to a general discontent, and I think the actors managed to show that perfectly. I also can't help noting the excellent female lead, who also won an Oscar, and a couple of male supporting roles, especially Lee J. Cobb, who played the main gangster.

In general, I liked the movie very much, I think it deservedly won the Oscar for the best movie of the year, it is definitely worth watching, at least to see how a new genre of cinema was born, because it is the first representative of its kind.