|
|
| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Bad Seed |
|---|
Seemingly living the perfect life, with a loving husband and "perfect" daughter,Christine, a housewife, learns of her daughter's complete amorality. Her little Rhoda has drowned a schoolmate in the lake for winning a medal she believed belonged to her, and Christine finds an old woman and the janitor were also killed by the sadistic child. No one believes the frustrated mother, because Rhoda puts on such a sweet and perfect facade, lying and cheating to get away with her crimes. Out of frustration, Christine attempts suicide and fails, but Rhoda's fate is yet to be decided.
--Sara Embrey, Resident Scholar
|
| Analysis of The Bad Seed |
|---|
Our unique search engine provides a wealth of detail about
books by breaking them down into many different literary
elements, all of which are searchable (click here). |
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kids:
- committing crimes
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Daughter
Age group
- trouble in grade school
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- a kid
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- (woman) skinny
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Setting
Water?
Yes
Water:
- drowning
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
Is this movie based on a
- play
|
| Most similar reviews by Gordonator ranking |
|---|
| The 400 Blows
starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Henri Virlojeux, Jean-Claude Brialy
|
| Madeline
starring Frances McDormand, Hatty Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, Ben Daniels
|
| Bright Road
starring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Philip Hepburn
|
| Compulsion
starring Bradford Dillman, Dean Stockwell, Orson Welles
|
| Lost Angel
starring Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Keenan Wynn
|
|
Resident Scholar Profiles
TOP SCHOLAR:
 Sara Embrey
SCHOLARS:
|
|
Note: the views expressed here are only those of the reviewer(s). | |
|
