The Feeling of Hostility (1948) [N/A]
Featuring:
John Drainie
Written by:
Robert Anderson
Bruce Ruddick
Directed by:
Robert Anderson
Release Date:
January 1, 1948
Original Title:
The Feeling of Hostility
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
ONF | NFB
Production Countries:
Canada
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 31
Dramatizes the factors producing resentment and hostility in personal relationships. In the story of Clare we see how the death of her father and the later remarriage of her mother discouraged her from seeking affectional relationships with others. Although successful at college and in her business career, she feels the lack of fellowship and understanding. The factors behind this emotional inadequacy are reviewed by a psychiatrist.
This one is a good argument for the British model that Grierson's NFB brought to Canada. It can compare with the early Zinneman features, which were being made by Hollywood at the time, with it's attention to disturbed behavior that does not make the characters dis-functional or totally unsympathetic.Losing her father at an early age makes the little girl over dependent on her mother and feeling she has to compete for her attention with the new family. She channels this into academic success, which gives her some status in life but leaves her isolated.Feature standard production with more realistically observed characters. It proved a false start, not the direction the Canadian fiction feature would follow when it arrived twenty years later, after the French New wave.
