Human spirit

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 2014)

Good movies are the ones that goes beyond a specific historic moment and impacts our present "moment/life". You can feel and understand The Grapes of Wrath's message now in 2014. I had to look back into dates to realize that "La Terra Trema" and "Rocco e i suoi fratelli" both from Luchino Visconti or "Les quatre cents coups" from François Truffaut or even "Los Olvidados" from Luis Buñuel were made after John Ford's movie, I felt that in those days only European cinema had these deep drama human elements, but this movie was a good surprise for me. Human spirit struggling; people moving from one place to other leaving everything they have for a new better life, dealing with moral dilemmas, taking care of older parents, hunger, misery, all these elements are always present in one way or another in those days but what I loved about this movie is the "hope", the way this American movie believes in the human spirit and doesn't lead everything to a dramatic tragedy. Classic movie to watch!