Almost all the plots and characters in Stephen King's novels have strong social attributes.
Stephen King said that his novels are written for ordinary people, not those special groups or privileged classes. He cares very much about those who seem ordinary, what they think and worry about every day
This movie is no exception. But for ordinary people, especially those at the bottom, who want to squeeze into the middle class. The feeling will be particularly deep!
The United States in the 1920s was a period of change, and many ideologies were very similar to those of China today. The influx of rural people into the cities, the lifestyle of loans, the contradictions between urban and rural areas, the objectification of women, etc. In fact, the biggest core conflict in the entire movie is not family conflicts, but that once the land is realized, it loses stability. But if there is no cash, there will not be enough money to satisfy the current life. As the bottom of the middle class, it is impossible to solve this financial contradiction in any case. The only way to go to the bank is to borrow money and owe more debts. At that time the bank will be able to reclaim the land grandiosely.
The biggest irony of this film is that whether the family kills their wife or not, the ending is the same. Can not escape the quagmire and nightmare of this capital society. His neighbors are the best proof. The blue Cadillac that the male protagonist envied back then, the new paint on the warehouse, the water pipes, etc., can be inferred from his downturn in the future, these things were bought by loans. After a period of consumption, this seemingly middle-class and enviable owner sold the land. Even the male protagonist who was extremely stubborn and even murdered his wife ended up borrowing a loan.
It is never possible to get rich through so-called labor by guarding one acre of land. It is even more unable to meet the expenses and life of the next generation, unless the child will never fall in love. A man without assets and power cannot protect his own woman and children. Women, like mice, are parasitic in society. Where there is danger, they will flee, and where there is wealth and food, they will go. So the two abandoned and lonely men on the farm, the children who were killed by rats, and even the women who were killed (there is a hint in the film that in the so-called fringe zone, women who often run away from home disappear), They are all inevitable victims of the current society. Even though they are so stubborn, they will not hesitate to flee, or even kill, they will eventually die, just like the last line at the end of the film: No one can escape!
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