this movie take the smolder talent of joan crawford and let them burn the screen down and right before your eye . she utterly convince a a fairly demented possess lover and torn to piece by hideous dysfunction . the low of low and and not many high . mildred pierce lay the template down while possessed fill the template and make it it own . what i personally love be the hollywood gothic aspect and the redolence of that represent every frame be steep in it and every moment be cradle in it embrace . one of those movie that you watch and mouth agape and and whisper to yourself and christ and the aesthetic . be the world ever really like that . apparently so . oh and and for the record it be a good world .