Movie #20 - On the waterfront

In March, we went with a couple friend of ours to spend a weekend in the country. We went to a region near Arganil. One of the nights we watched On the waterfront. It's a movie that I wanted to see for a long time and that is considered to be a masterpiece by Elia Kazan. The movie portrays an ex-prize fighter turned lonshoreman who struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses and some say that it was an act of atonement on the part of Elia Kazan for naming names to HUAC during the McCarthy witch-hunts of the 1950's. Regardless of what the purpose might have been, the movie is mandatory for all movie lovers and I can name one reason alone: Marlon Brando. It is an incredible performance but so different from a character like Don Corleone in the Godfather. In this movie, Brando is a potent but innocent and kind young man. I love the conversation with his brother in the taxi when he says to his brother that he is the one to blame for him not being a champion. I love the way he says: "I could have been a contender!".