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American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Toward Emotional Maturity
- Year
- 1954
- Abstract
- A teenage girl reflects on her emotional growth, remembering episodes in which her love, fear, anger were not always under control, and decides not to go "park" with her boyfriend.
- Notes
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Produced: Knickerbocker Productions
Sponsor: N/A
Run Time: 10:14
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W - Keyword
- Social guidance;Psychology;Sex education;Psychology;Sex education
- Theme
- Toward Emotional Maturity
- Review
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Teenaged Sally gains "maturity" by learning how dangerous emotions can be. This film hints much more strongly at the real teen problems underlying the "social guidance" movement. In particular, there's a disturbing scene of teens dancing around a bonfire at a pep rally that looks more like a Ku Klux Klan meeting. After a whispered rumor gains momentum, the teens vandalize the home of a disliked teacher, but the whole scene feels uglier than that. The whole point of the film seems to be that emotions are dangerous and should be tightly controlled. The makers seem to think that emotions are the cause of juvenile delinquency. This film is a lot less pat than most of the "social guidance" films of the 50's and the underlying adult fears are a lot closer to the surface. NOTE: Watch for the stars of other films on this list in Sally's psych class––Barbara from Habit Patterns is definitely there, and I could swear I caught a glimpse of the skinny kid from Money Talks, too.
(Reviewer: Christine Hennig) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F