How a family dealt with the hardships of the dust bowl & loss of work

Rating: Null/10 (12 October 2010)

This was definitely my least favorite movie we've watched so far this semester. I undersdtand that the point the movie is trying to get across is how hard life was during this time period between the dust bowl and all these people getting forced off of their land because they had no jobs to pay for their homes however it was very drawnout and seemed to take way to long to get its point across and in the end I felt so sorry and almost sick to my stomach because I felt so bad for the poor family. However it may have been what the director had in mind for the movie. also it was very repetitive with all of the hardships the family faced it became almost too predictable, so on the whole I thought the movie was poorly written. On that note the lighting aspects were great such as all of the shots of the sunsets and the rocky cliffs as the family traveled. I also feel as if the movie did a great job making you feel as if you were in all the different camps the family was in.