Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

I like Tennessee Williams. Emotions, feelings, tears, frustration, love, hate - it's all jumbled together in one melting pot of a human being, and it always works.

I wonder how long it took him to create a character, because all his heroes and heroines are startlingly real. From the writing point of view, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is a perfect example of how the dramatic conflict grows out of the characters and their differences.

The movie is true to the book: additional sequences to visualize the story, the change of the setting (no one goes to movies to see people sitting in one place all the time and talking, after all), everything pretty standard. The change of the setting is also a pretty brilliant idea since it dramatizes the conversation between Brick and Big Daddy.

They go from Brick and Maggie's room to the room downstairs to the parking lot and end up in the basement. I'm not sure but it can be an awesome director's decision: it's like they're getting rid of mendacity, layer by layer, going deeper and deeper and finally facing the truth. It creates the sense of irrational movement, of the two men trying to get out of the cage of lies.

Maggie The Cat simply tries to stay on a hot tin roof, and I feel that's why Brick, Big Daddy along with the writer respect her. She doesn't scheme, she doesn't plan, she glues her paws to the roof, no matter how uncomfortable and deadly it might be, and she holds on for dear life. Because that's who she is and it's why we love her.