" The Age of Innocence" ( Martin Scorcese )

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" In Martin Scorsese's film The Age of Innocence (1993), Edith Wharton's novel is the source for a story about a time very different form our own. The Age of innocence referred to in the title was over long before Wharton wrote her book, and by the term she means the latter part of the nineteenth century when the richest families in New York intermarried and controlled the social milieu in a variety of ways while enforcing a certain vision of social mores and behavior. The film is set in the 1870s, and the tightly-knit upper-class community in New York city enforces morality by gossip, so that anyone who becomes the object of gossip is scandalized and perhaps ostracized from the group. Personal desires and needs matter less than the cohesion of the group. The cinematic style of this film evokes the sumptuousness of this wealthy class and evokes a sense of the.."

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