Overall it's an intelligent film whose main theme is repression and ultimate frustration of desire with it's tragic consequences. The film, which is basically a serious drama, turns out to be something of a cynical human comedy, due to "ridiculousness" of all of it's characters and the way the story is told by film's director - John Huston. Army Major in an isolated military fort somewhere in the south, who gradually discovers his homosexuallity and Liz Taylor, simply great here in the role of his cheating wife. What we have here is a good drama whose story is based on a book by Carson McCullers, featuring superb performances from Marlon Brando who plays a U.S. Though the story involves murder, voyeurism, sadism, self-mutilation, and repressed gay desire, it. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished. Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941), Carson McCullers’s second novel, is set at an American Southern army base during the 1930s and portrays the lives of six interconnected people who are alienated from themselves and the world in different ways. While generally the later is accepted as his masterpiece "Reflections in a Golden Eye" is misunderstood as Huston's "misfire", as a "flop", an opinion with which I tend to disagree. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. After two days at the institution, she dies of a heart attack."Reflections in a Golden Eye" was recognized by John Huston himself as his most important film of his late period along with "The Man who would be a King". McCullers second novel, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, is set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS tells the story of Captain Penderton. The next day, Major Langdon has her declared “insane” and takes her to a psychiatric institution he is not entirely forthcoming about the details of his decision to commit her, but he does disclose that Alison asked for a divorce, thus making it clear to him that she had lost touch with reality. Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941), Carson McCullers’s second novel, is set at an American Southern army base during the 1930s and portrays the lives of six interconnected people who are alienated from themselves and the world in different ways. Alison tells Captain Penderton to look in the bedroom, which he decides not to do, and then returns home. She then sees the Private going into the Penderton house again she doesn’t clearly see him and assumes it is her husband, the Major, wandering over for a tryst with Leonora-but she goes over to the house herself and discovers the truth when she sees the Private in Leonora’s bedroom. She has a heart attack that night and is bedbound for two weeks. Anacleto comes to sit with her, and they discuss his painting of a peacock with a golden eye. From the neighboring house, Alison sees Private Williams lurking outside the Pendertons’ and suspects she is hallucinating from mental illness. Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, this novel tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon.
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