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Maintain farm life at all costs
Alexandrine 2022-09-14 11:40:07
The plot of the film itself does not have too many complicated plots and reversals, but it is such a simple plot that can keep people watching, and it does not feel lengthy. I think this is where Stephen King is brilliant. Very ordinary stories are told by different writers and different directors, and the audience can feel completely different. 1922 is not only such a murder plot, but also the very important point is the time and environment in which the story took place. Industrialization in the United States is booming. However, due to the early stages of industrialization, cities still have not attracted enough attention to farmers on farms. Traditional farmers are still willing to stay on the farm for a lifetime, relying on the dealers to live and rely on the sky for food. The prosperous life is scornful. Farmers think that only stupid people will be willing to go to the city. The farmer’s thinking directly leads to maintaining farm life at all costs, even sacrificing the lives of others. However, the farmer is not completely inhuman. After committing heinous crimes, he can no longer live as peacefully as he used to, and various hallucinations will appear in front of him. The children who lacked control eventually went astray. The farmers finally realized that there was a better way to go in 1922, but they had no choice.
Extended Reading
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Henry James: Papa... it'll be quick.
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[first lines]
Wilfred James: [writing] To whom it may concern. My name is Wilfred Leland James, and this is my confession. The issue that led to my crime and damnation was 100 acres of good land in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, willed to my wife, Arlette Christina Winters James, following the death of her father. It was much my intention to add her 100 to our 80-acre freehold farm, as it was to someday pass it all on to my boy, Henry Freeman James, and to his thereafter.