American Pastoral Comments

  • Rickey 2023-09-26 15:57:18

    I feel sorry for this father. What kind of people a child grows into sometimes negatively thinks it's luck, regardless of parental education, upbringing environment, only child or companion, poor or rich, single parent or double parent, you never know what kind of person your child will be. . I have always had a bad impression of religion and other organizations that want to brainwash and control...

  • Geraldine 2023-09-12 07:31:04

    The degree of completion is very high. Except for the ending, the original novel is restored, and the sense of age and atmosphere are in place. The symbolism of the novel is very strong. A broken family of three is used to symbolize the contradiction between the World War II generation and the anti-war generation. Several leading actors perform well. The end of the novel is chaos, the end of the movie seems to have hope of return, ideal is always better than...

  • Janelle 2023-09-11 20:28:20

    I don't know how the original work is, but at first glance, this film is a literary work turned into a movie, and the narrator's point of view is not the taste of ordinary movies. Even though the film was flat, with few highlights, I was intrigued by the story of the family falling apart, a rare outspoken critique of the dark side of hippies. Ewan McGregor is an interesting guy who avoids the male gaze on his debut feature film and leaves the best scenes in the film to his female colleagues,...

  • Watson 2023-09-06 19:43:32

    Human nature is so complicated that it is better than nothing. Jennifer Connelly is still so beautiful. Dakota Fanning is ugly as she grows up. Is it another proof that she was good-looking when she was a child and grew up...

  • Brenna 2023-08-29 17:49:44

    The narrative jumps to the limit, and the characters are vivid and three-dimensional, but Dakota's performance is obviously not enough. The character is the core, so much so that Ivan and Connery's efforts are...

  • Carson 2023-08-27 20:57:59

    372 This is probably one of the few scumbags in the world... Ewan is really delicate, and even the films he shoots have his own tenderness. When I played my father, even the folds at the corners of my eyes were a play. I could see me banging my thighs "such a good dad don't want you to give it to me ಥ_ಥ" Eve McGregor popped out of the credits list at the end of the credits, covering his heart and gnawing on dog food_(:з ”∠)_ Ewan, please make more...

  • America 2023-08-16 01:56:13

    2017.2.28 The ill-fated plan became Uncle 10K's directorial debut, perhaps because of the fatherhood of Uncle's four daughters? The original or more grand and profound, the film has a shallow taste of the objective "cause", only focusing on the description of family and father's love, calm and restrained. An ordinary and persistent father who was destroyed by the times. Compared with the warmth of the big fish, this father is full of helplessness and heaviness. (must add one star for uncle)

  • Jaime 2023-08-15 02:16:13

    When I watched it, I kept thinking that although my dad was not as extreme as Fanning, most of the time I did not move forward according to his and my mother's expectations at all, but I was still embraced by my parents with love. The selflessness of this love made me feel that I couldn't. It may be my selfishness to take on such a responsibility. I don't remember the content of the book. I can't remember the content of the book. I look back and look at it again. Ivan's face is obviously marked...

  • Nedra 2023-08-06 05:38:16

    Far less shocking than reading a novel. I don't understand why the screenwriter and director should abandon the deep social meaning of the original book and turn it into a family ethics film about the Electra complex? For Ivan's sake, I can barely give three...

  • Magnus 2023-08-04 09:18:43

    The daughter is too unreasonable and irritated, she is simply a keyboard player, but her father puts on a "you owe me" face. . . ....

Extended Reading

American Pastoral quotes

  • Merry Levov: Daddy, how much suffering do you want?

    Swede Levov: Who are you? Where is my daughter? My daughter did not kill four people. Say it isn't you. Say it isn't you!

  • [last lines]

    Nathan Zuckerman: [narrating funeral] You come at people with an open mind, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You get them wrong while you're with them, or you tell someone about them and get them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive. We are wrong. About the Swede, how life was going to open its arms and shower blessings upon him, I was never more wrong about anyone in my life.