Swing Shift (1984)
2/10
Hollywood Values
7 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Husband leaves California home to defend his country in World War 2. While he is risking his life overseas, his wife back home has carnal relations many times with a pretty boy musician she meets. Husband comes home to find his wife has betrayed him. He is naturally devastated.

Movie portrays the philandering wife sympathetically and passes no judgment on her betrayals. Movie makes no effort to explore the emotional devastation that the husband has experienced. It is much more concerned with the poor unfaithful wife and her adulterous lover.

Movie fails to consider the fact that millions of women remained faithful to their soldier husbands in times of war. Movie fails to consider the possibility that men and women may become close friends and provide each other emotional support without engaging in sexual relations. Movie is literally about nothing but sex between a bunch of people who are not married, and one who is married - to someone else.

I cannot recall a movie which better exemplifies the immoral value system of Hollywood.
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