the depression

Rating: 10/10 (26 May 2017)

i realized as i watched the last frames that no place like home meant so much at this time to so many young people. young people had to leave their families and pretty much starve to death to save their mothers, dads, and babies. far from being a surface fantasy film, i think this film is about the trials so many faced in the thirties. how many young people today would rather stay at home than venture out into the world of possibilities? not many! children in Iowa leave their families and just go elsewhere. its rather sad! in our town it is a struggle to keep them here. even my son lives in another town not far away, but not here, not with his family. family meant so much in the thirties because families were torn apart and the potential for love was so poignant because of that! my heart breaks that children were parted from their parents so early and cast into wilderness, bleak and forlorn. the hippies of my generation experienced a similar fate for very different reasons. i was fortunate and got to spend many years getting to know my parents well. for good and for bad. i am so glad i got that chance! for me it was one day i woke up and my family had gone. all of them. i was so alone. i still miss them today. my mother left her family in the thirties with my father and made a living in the south. later when my grandmother was having health problems they return north and lived with her for her remaining years. i was so proud of them! i tried to do the same thing but was unable and my mother didn't want anything to do with me. i dream often of my homes i have left. they are so real i could touch them. in fact sometimes in my dreams i know they are dreams and realize the validity of that mental touch in awe. my family home will always exist in my heart. truly there is no place like home. love you mom and dad.