10 Decades, 10 Movies of 2015

[tps_header]1950s: Carol[/tps_header]

Not as palpably indicative of nineteen-fifties’ aesthetic culture as maybe Brooklyn, which would probably make it a more ideal candidate visually. However, Carol powerfully evokes the nineteen-fifties’ American middle-class culture exactly as it was: a cultural tyrant of repressed gender roles, oppressive culture conformity and the veritable bondage known as the “nuclear family.”