I'm a city boy. There's just no denying it. I've never eaten anything I've grown. Come to think about it, I've never grown anything that lived more than a week or so. No green in these thumbs, buddy. They don't belong anywhere near a farm. The only times they've been on one, it's because I was visiting on a field trip with some school or another. So yeah, if the world is ever plunged back into the dark ages I'll be one of the first to perish because I can't make a shovel and a seed turn into sustenance.
You know what I can do? I can watch a movie that takes place on a farm. And that's the topic for this week's Thursday Movie Picks hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves. Let's see what's out in the fields.
Farms have fields, right? No? I dunno.
Moving on.
Animal Farm
(1954)
I've chosen this before and spoke about it several times on this site, but I just can't resist bringing it up on more time. I mean, the word farm is in the title. The other word, animal, sums it up. This is a farm ran completely by animals. Of course, the problem is they're slowly becoming that which they've continuously rebelled against - human. (The Top 25 Movies of the 1950s)
1922
(2017)
This got a bit lost among the numerous Stephen King's adaptations of 2017. While It is fun, polished, horror for the Stranger Things crowd, 1922, along with Gerald's Game, takes a more mature approach horror and works just as well. It starts with Wilfred, a never-better Thomas Jane, confessing to a crime he committed in his past. And then we watch as that past plays out and gets back to the starting point.
Mudbound
(2017)
A black family lives and works on a farm owned by a white family in the Mississippi Delta during World War II. Out of this framework, we get a powerful examination of race, family, responsibility, patriotism, loneliness, PTSD, and more. Performances are phenomenal across the board and the cinematography makes this a beautiful, deep-cutting film. (Full Review)
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