A FOREIGN AFFAIR

Sometimes I'll watch a movie and wonder if it's all that it's cracked-up to be. Why do critics say it's so good? Why is the director so famous? I think the true test is a movie's test of time - if it's good over 50 years later, then it's captured cinematic magic.

Jean Arthur plays Phoebe Frost a Congresswoman from Iowa. She meets John Lund who plays Captain John Pringle. She's in Berlin right after WWII to investigate the morality of GIs stationed in the American sector. If you know anything about Billy Wilder who directed this movie, you'll know that there's always some kind of twist in the plot that always questions our understanding of morality.

Anyway, it's a film most definitely worth watching. Here's a great scene with Jean Arthur explaining the wonders of love:

Frost: Oh John! I'm so happy I'm in heaven! Not that I was unhappy before. I was just drifting. That's it. Drifting on a gray sea all alone. It's not bad but suddenly you get scared. You need another voice. So you hoist up your heart and you wait. And nobody passes by, just gray waves. Your heart gets frayed in the sun. Lashed by the night winds and rain. So you haul it down, what's left of it. And you resign yourself. Then suddenly out of nowhere comes a boat so unexpected. All white sails are on the horizon. To you my beautiful boat!