"Teresa " is akin to other Zinnemann's movies: "the search "was about a relationship between a German kid and a private (Montgomery Clift) who taught him English so that they could communicate ; "the men" dealt with "the soldier has come home" subject :but he's sometimes disabled (Brando) and the doctor had to tell the wife (Teresa Wright ) that she would have to arm up with patience.
"Teresa" combines the clash between two languages -although the fact that two persons can speak English in Teresa's family is hardly gullible- and two ways of life and the soldier's life after the war ; when he returns home, Philippe (Ericson) finds it hard to adjust himself to the land and the over possessive mom he left behind ("you treat me like a two- year old"); and his difficulties to find a new job because he's got a wife to feed (thus the impossibility to go to college). As for the heroine(Angeli) ,not only she left her homeland and her own family but in New York ,she becomes a rival for the mother and soon she realises she's outstayed her welcome.
I have a tendency to prefer the sequences in Italy ,influenced by the Neo-realism of De Sica , Visconti and Rossellini ;the depiction of Teresa's family with the macho brother who displays hostility ; the food the private spoils and the starving children gathering among the soldier to get their share ; the wedding in a church in ruins.
"Teresa" combines the clash between two languages -although the fact that two persons can speak English in Teresa's family is hardly gullible- and two ways of life and the soldier's life after the war ; when he returns home, Philippe (Ericson) finds it hard to adjust himself to the land and the over possessive mom he left behind ("you treat me like a two- year old"); and his difficulties to find a new job because he's got a wife to feed (thus the impossibility to go to college). As for the heroine(Angeli) ,not only she left her homeland and her own family but in New York ,she becomes a rival for the mother and soon she realises she's outstayed her welcome.
I have a tendency to prefer the sequences in Italy ,influenced by the Neo-realism of De Sica , Visconti and Rossellini ;the depiction of Teresa's family with the macho brother who displays hostility ; the food the private spoils and the starving children gathering among the soldier to get their share ; the wedding in a church in ruins.