On the Waterfront

     After watching on the waterfront, several thoughts and ideas came to mind.  The first thing that came to mind is how much movies and directors have evolved.  I think that one of the reasons why it was hard to watch was because it was boring, and that might be because I am so used to watching such high technology and high budget movies that it was difficult to watch.  For example, the character "Terry", did not even change clothes once.  Since I also thought that the movie boring, it immediately became somewhat difficult to follow because there were basically no sound effects, and the cut scenes going from scene to scene i thought were terrible, simply because the movie is from the 1950's.  Some of the questions that I have on this film, was; what did the fact that he was a boxer have to do with anything in the movie? I understand that the reason that he was there was because of the fixing of his last boxing match, but it still seems irrelevant.  As you might have guessed from reading my thoughts, I did not care for this movie much at all.  I think that it could have been much more interesting if the movie had a more twisting plot, maybe that his brother was the mob boss and he was to turn on him instead of somebody else.  One of the other reasons that I think that it was difficult to watch was simply because it was in black and white.  It may sound pathetic but it was hard to see which character was which, they all sort of look the same.  I however had a bias going into watching the film. I had talked with several people before watching this and they said it was a very difficult movie to watch and said it was a tough movie to follow.