Studying A Streetcar Named Desire (2)

My journal note on November 26th 2014 was inadequate, frankly, at capturing how the screen adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire struck me:

I watched the 1951 film over the weekend, and oh my what intense drama and superb film making.

It was so gripping, I felt my cheeks flush.  My chest shook and tightened at Stanley Kowalski's explosive nature, and my heart sank in the aftermath of yet another trauma for Blanche Du Bois.  She, of course, is a tragic American heroine, and he a complex profile of the working class.