Upon reflection let me make a few more comments.
The 50's are caricatured as a decade monochromatic sameness and dullness. In the movie we see hoards of men going to work in the same looking suits and the same looking hats. This is a bit overdone. There was much more going on in the 50's that conformity. After all, the modern civil rights movement started with Montgomery and Little Rock. We had the beginning of rock and roll. And many other things.
The tragedy of the story is finally April Wheeler. She is the one trapped, with aspirations that cannot be fulfilled, trapped in a decade before women had the choices they have today. Everyone suffers at the end because of her desperation. I have no sympathy for Frank. What a klutz.
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