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...Emigrants, the story of many good people besides Kari Oscar (who is only particularly strong), opens up our understanding to the extent that we can take full pride in these alien peoples' achievements. It is, above all, a noble film...
TROELL CHRONICLES the migration of eight impoverished Swedes, from their emotionally cramped life in the rural province of Smaland, to their gradual disillusionments with that life; from their ten-week voyage to America to their initial settlement in Minnesota. He follows two main groups: the family of farmer Kari Oscar Neilson, and the religious cell of a preacher-sansordinance, Danjell (uncle of Kristina, Neilson's wife). Both groups are directly impelled to emigrate by personal oppression on the part of their overlords (the sheriff, the constable, the deacon, the churchwarden...
...court her, or Robert, excited by a natural sciences schoolbook, floating cap and boots down a stream to check out its fluidity. And of course, the best images of all chart the characters' growth. Flower petals in a cut-glass cup spill over during Kristina's first housewifely drudgery. Kari Oscar, while his entire family (except for his own mother and father) packs and prepares to leave, pauses over a love-plaque he once gave his wife and hands it to her again...
...entire film is in some way a celebration of nature as seen by these farmers, the last two minutes is this alone. Kari pushes on in Minnesota while the others stop, seeking the best possible farmland for his family. He cuts his way through miles of forest until he reaches the meadows by the shores of Lake Ki-Chi-Saga. Troell cuts with a compass to four views of the land the Swede has chosen. And after Karl has chopped the bark of a tree to mark his claim, knowing that he has done right by all and enchanted...
...most important, their previous apathy and withdrawal have been replaced by a new capacity to share in family life. The mother of one child at the center was "thrilled" when her son used symbols to say that he was angry about some things but that he loved his family. Kari's mother voiced surprise and delight when Kari managed to convey her sadness over the fact that her guinea pig cannot think...