Written on the Wind "It's a study of failure."  -- Douglas Sirk (3) "Written on the Wind was intially criticized as a quintessential example of Sirk's empty style."  --  (5) "Sirk excelled in suggesting psychological states -- particularly unbalanced ones -- through lighting and color, and Written on the Wind has many such moments."  -- (7) "Douglas Sirk puts the opera back into soap opera in this exquisitely baroque melodrama, the epitome of Technicolor gloss. It's so over the top that it might seem kitschy at first glance, but former theater director Sirk subtly shades his vision in the shadows of film noir and uses the portentous angles and gaudy color to create a vivid, vivacious world of glossy surfaces and social masks cracking under the pressure of responsibility and the pain of lost love."  -- Sean Axmaker, amazon.com summary My thoughts: go here
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