Harvey (1950)

My Review On Harvey:

Harvey is an olden - day , black and white film produced in 1950. Basically, a man ( Edwood.P.Dow) has a very close friend named Harvey, who is supposedly a is a giant white rabbit, or a pooka as Edwood called him. Everyone thinks that Edwood, ever since his mother died, has gone a bit mad and made up an invisible, imaginary friend and called him Harvey. He took this very seriosly indeed. He introduced Harvey to everyone he met, carried around Harvey's own special hat that even had holes for his ears! Edwood genuenly treated him as a real, living thing. Eventually, Edwood's older sister had arranged for him to be locked up, not because she didn't love him, but just because she couldn't take the whole " Harvey buisness" any longer.

I found that this flim had a quite lot of major disadvantages and very few advantages in my personal opinion.

This film, if I am to be truly honest, was not a film that I enjoyed or one that I would ever choose to watch again. The reason is not because it was produced so long ago or the fact that it was completely in black and white, but because I found it quite hard to understand the whole concept of the film and think that it would be best suited to adults and not children. Furthermore, it really dosen't make it clear wheather Harvey is real or not, all it really did was show things moving as if an invisible person was there which could have just been the wind or their sheer imagination. In my personal opnion, I think it would have been best if it had actually shown the white rabbit at some particular point in the film.

However, I did find that Harvey did have one very distinct advantage. I found it had a mixture of comedy, romance, fantasy all in one film. Which I do have to applaud the producers of having such a variation of these things instead of just having one singular event and I know that it must not be an easy task trying to jumble it all up into one film.

To swiftly summarise, Harvey was, for me, not an enjoyable film and a film I would definately not choose to watch again. I may however, in saying that, decide to watch it again when I am quite a lot older in the hope I will have a better understanding of it all.

By Heidi Drinnan, Year Six