Excruciating and beautiful.

Rating: 10/10 (17 October 2010)

Grapes of Wrath is a really difficult movie to watch. For nearly two hours, you watch a family lose their home, get bullied by the police, starve, and lose half their family members to death. And the despair and helplessness is all captured and presented beautifully. GOW is an extraordinarily directed movie, with a fantastic use of camera and lighting. The cloudy country shots are beautiful. As are the dark, enclosed shots(in a different way), with their contrasting sense of lost confinement. It's a simple thing to mention, but the way Muley lit up when Tom was searching through is home was really awesome. The movie is bitchin.