Land is the deepest attachment of farmers!

Raven 2021-12-09 08:01:21

The famous bloody enclosure movement and the bloody suppression of the working people caused severe polarization between the rich and the poor
and the main contradiction in capitalist society.
In the Bible, grapes represent God's people.
"Blow away the land, blow away the grain, blow us away!" The land that had lived for 50-70 years was taken away by a piece of official document, and the farmers could not find the person in charge. If you kill the executor, you will be hanged, and a new executor will come in a few days. How helpless! Old people who do not want to stay away from their homeland, grandfathers and grandmothers who are intolerant of displacement can only be buried in a foreign land, how desolate! Land is the deepest attachment of farmers! They have toiled all their lives without much savings. Only the thin soil on which they depend for survival has been ruthlessly deprived! The pain of being far away from the homeland is no less than the wound of naked skin! I think of the classic lines in "Gone with the Wind": "Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, fighting for, and sacrificing for it, because it is the only thing that lasts forever!". However, taking away the land is only the beginning of the suffering, and hard work cannot be exchanged for enough salary for living!
"If there is a rule of law, we can still accept it. But here is a lawless place. They force us like reptiles and destroy our dignity!" The poor are tenacious! Where there is oppression, there will be resistance. The rods of the exploiters are fierce and ruthless, but they can't stop the resistance from coming forward!
Regarding the individual soul mentioned in the film is only a part of the collective soul, the individual part is irrelevant. The rich will disappear, and we will never be extinct, we will not be defeated, because we are the people! These thoughts remind me of communism.
Mother is the soul of the whole family. She has a strong will and an optimistic spirit to support the whole family through difficulties.
Mother said: The life of a man is composed of one jump (I understand it as a big event), and the life of a woman is indeed like a trickle, endless.
Is "demolition" not an enclosure movement in disguised form in modern society? ! A group of people with sticks driving out the refugees also reminds people of how difficult and demanding policies in big cities are different from sticks? ! The behavior of these people is clearly saying: "Pamper, go back to your broken place!" The
soundtrack and photography are great. There are too many famous sayings in the lines!

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The Grapes of Wrath quotes

  • [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.

  • [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.