The Promise of Love

They are young and beautiful, they are in love, and they marry to live happily ever after, but he has to go to Vietnam. He gets killed there. So she is a war widow, and everyone feels sorry for her and try to help her on, but she just goes on grieving and try at one instant to drown her sorrows by swimming in a swimming pool for as long as possible to tire herself out, but then a young good-looking man working there spots her and rescues her, they go out together, they are young and beautiful, but her enjoying herself gives her a bad conscience, so it's not so easy to just start all over with another guy. That's the trivial story, it is all about 1967, the film ends with Bobby Kennedy deciding to run for president, and that is all. A short story film of a young war widow, I guess there were many, they all had a difficult time and everyone felt sorry for them, but somehow they got on anyway, maturing at best. It's a triviality, well made with good acting, everyone acting perfectly naturally, so it almost has some documentary social interest, but there are better films and better ways to spend your time.