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Grapes of Wrath
Turner 2021-12-09 08:01:21
This film reflects the status quo of peasants living at the bottom of the society after the 29 years of the Great Depression in the United States. It records the social dilemmas brought by the greedy and bloodthirsty American bourgeoisie through the narrative method of highway movies, and finally responds to the call of the communist revolution. In view of this, it can be seen that even in the United States, communism has taken root widely among the people for quite some time. As for why it was severely suppressed by McKinsey in the 1950s, there are also complex backgrounds of times, wars, and politics. The bourgeois regime in the United States was not always monolithic. On the other hand, the state of people’s livelihood in the film has many similarities with China back then, and the narrative and thinking lines are also familiar theories, but in the end it has not been sublimated to concrete doctrine or revolution. And why communism has encountered completely different situations in China and the United States is obviously a factor in addition to religious beliefs and thinking patterns. This point is worth thinking about.
Extended Reading
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[last lines]
Ma Joad: Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.
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[the family is leaving the farm, heading for California]
Al Joad: Ain't you gonna look back, Ma? Give the ol' place a last look?
Ma Joad: We're going' to California, ain't we? All right then let's go to California.
Al Joad: That don't sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.
Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. Never had to lose everything I had in life.