The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Rating: 7/10 (13 October 2014)

This film is tragic...the families in the story had so many hardships. It seemed impossible at time for the families survival. In all the, plot/ story content was great. Seeing what the main characters went through was some what hard to watch for me. I felt bad and guilty for watching it with popcorn in my hands. Besides the plot, the camera work was incredible.
There was one scene in particular where the camera stayed in a fixed location, it was great because there was these houses that lined right up next to each other. The houses close to us was out of focus/ blurred but the building farther away were in focused. I just thought it look like it could've been a nice photograph. Along with the fact that a lot of the scenes in this film was taken in the dark. The tonal range in these scenes almost ghostly. It felt as if nothing was left, and there wasn't. These people lost there home but as well as their humanity. Though at the end it was nice to see that they didn't give up hope.
The only thing that bothered me was the length of the film...it took too long to get to the point for me, but other than that it was pretty good.