Impressive, but Longggggg

Rating: 5/10 (13 October 2010)

"The Grapes of Wrath" is a very powerful movie indeed. This film shows the truth of the Great Depression and what people really went through. The living conditions at all of the camps were for the most part unbearable. Rarely would there be running water or edible food. The effects of this movie were pretty realistic. Such as when Tom gets hit in the face, the makeup looks as though he was actually hit in the face.
This movie was just too long for my taste. I feel as though a good portion of it could have been taken out, and we still would have received the message of the film. To me it did not make sense why Tom would be a former prisoner, and then in trouble with the cops. I feel as though all of that could have been left out because it took away from the actual point of the film, which was the Joad family going to California for work.