OVERRATED Right?

This movie is a conundrum. When evaluating a film as a film-making achievement you are supposed to accept certain choices the director/producer made and not reject or score the film lower because you don't agree with them. However, you are also not supposed to overscore a movie just because they think of a new technique or format. This movie undoubtably has remarkable realism. I am sure it captures the life of that area at that time period very accurately, incluidng the mistreatment of farm animals, although I realize it reflects the way things were done and the attitudes of that time period. The director chose to show different slices of their life rather than to have a long, continual story. However, does doing that reduce the quality of the film and perhaps make viewers less apt to enjoy the film? Yes, it does, so perhaps we do have to score the film down a bit for that. I must also say, that the people were always very bland and almost in the same mood the entire time. Some people say that melodrama - the artificial heightening of emotions of the people to draw you into the film - is bad and unrealistic. However, the fact is that most people do fight sometimes or have have disagreements with their family members. As well, people are sometimes really happy! In tnis movie the people are mostly always the same mood - as if they are on emotion stabilizing drugs, which would make it set in the 2000s! Even at the end, the other families did not say any kind of goodbye to the family that was forced to move out. The ending is sad and shows what probably happened in those times, but I really do think their neighbours would have said goodbye. Overall, I do rate the film as somewhere between 8 and 8.5/10. If I rate it 8.5 in the end, it makes my all-time top 300 list (including 120 non-English language films). If just an 8, it misses the list and sits with a vast number of other films that do not quite quality.

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