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Daija 2022-08-10 14:39:35
The Force Moving Forward in Pain-"Green Hills and Green Valleys", John Ford, 1941
It is hard to imagine that "green" and "cui" tell the story of mines and mines. As soon as the movie opened, the narration told us that this is a memory many years later, and the green hills and green valleys no longer exist. In fact, this contrast between verdant and dark mines is everywhere:...
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Alia 2022-08-10 15:40:48
The beauty of green hills and green valleys
Just finished watching "Green Hills and Cuigu", a very sad but warm movie. The plot of the whole movie is actually the epitome of the miserable world. The same characters described by Dickens live in the shadow of poverty, hunger, unemployment, strikes, and mine disasters, but they are sad...
Barry Fitzgerald
Extended Reading
How Green Was My Valley quotes
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Mr. Gruffydd: But remember, with strength goes responsibility - to others and to yourselves. For you cannot conquer injustice with more injustice - only with justice and the help of God.
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Angharad: Look now, you are king in the chapel. But I will be queen in my own kitchen.
Mr. Gruffydd: You will be queen wherever you walk.
Angharad: What does that mean?
Mr. Gruffydd: ...I should not have said it.
Angharad: Why?
Mr. Gruffydd: I have no right to speak to you so.
[he leaves]
Angharad: [stopping him] Mr. Gruffydd, if the right is mine to give, you have it.
