PLEASE NOTE: there is a major difference between the scale with which modern movies are being judged and the "classics scale" with which the...well...good ones are being judged.

*******SPOILERS BELOW*******

brief encounter (lean, 1945)

one of the simplest movies i have ever seen, and probably the most emotionally powerful--i have never seen so much packed into such a short amount of time (how perfect that is, even), with a structure and voice over that is incredibly cheesy in theory, but is executed in the non-cheesiest of ways. this movie could not be made this well today.

classics scale: 8.5/10 (with coffee withdrawal even worse than with some like it hot, to boot.)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037558/

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