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User Comments for: The Grapes of Wrath

soonertbone says...
9 months ago
Good adaptation of one of my favorite books. To me, it's good but not great, primarily because it waters down the radicalism of the book's political arguments in order (I presume) to appease the censors. Whereas the book locates salvation in the power of collective action, the movie seems to suggest that the promised land is a federal camp and takes great pains to have Tom disavow any "red" talk. I also felt like there was something about the movie that felt very character-specific. That is, the Joads in the book felt allegorical--the family is all families. But here, it felt a bit more like we were watching a character study that was a bit less universal. Still, the power of the narrative comes through and the performances are wonderful across the board.
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