Typically known for his screwball comedies, Make Way For Tomorrow sees the Leo McCarey turn a pensive eye towards the those whom are often overlooked in society - the elderly class. The cold, ineffectual mechanics of the world are displayed through a heartfelt story of an elder couple who increasingly becomes a burden for their children, as they've grown incapable of staying afloat financially due to the rapidly changing world that has left them behind. Managing to be pitiless while highly empathetic, Make Way Tomorrow is incisive at examining the emotional complexities of a world in which individualistic financial achievement, technological progress, and innovation have replaced the social (family) at the type of hierarchy. The degradation of this older couple, the burden they present to their son's and daughters is one that moves slowly and efficiently throughout the narrative; McCarey's film is largely uninterested in placing blame on individuals of this story for the tragic plight which unfolds, and in doing so the film becomes more effecting, pointing to a larger societal problem, one in which the elderly are implicitly treated as exposable due to their inability to contribute to the market economy. Cherish your loved ones, respect the knowledge and sacrifices of your elders, family is everything.
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