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...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...
...deck dance. In America, new wonders and horrors are evoked: the awesome countryside and native paraphenalta, the strangeness of the language and the relative social freedom. And slowly, the Swedes become a small community. Old prejudices fade before new awareness and necessity. The whore becomes a lady, the preacher humble, the Neilsons leaders...
...Loss lacks the definitive quality of The Sorrow and the Pity, it has a desperate urgency all its own. Ophuls spent a month and a half earlier this year shooting all around Ireland, his subjects ranging from Bernadette Devlin and Prime Minister Jack Lynch to the arch-conservative Protestant preacher, the Rev. Ian Paisley. Ophuls has structured the film not on these interviews, however, but around the impact of meaningless deaths. Parents mourn the incineration of their adopted son Colin, 17 months old; a widow tells how her husband, a prosperous Belfast businessman, tried to defuse a bomb that blew...
...film's other asset has in its indirect revelations concerning the congregants and them relationship with the preacher Marjoe's charisma is beyond question. The intense emotional and physical reactions of his audiences bear witness to the hole he has cracked through their fortified walls of intense self-repression. He is an unquestionably good actor and a competent singer and organist. His comparing himself to Mick Jagger is not at all baseless. Amidst an aura of religious righteousness rather than an atmosphere of Satanic evil, Marjoe, like Jagger, conducts an exercise in group masturbation legitimized by the central figure...
...weekend at Dawes's grandfather's farm. Dawes's parents are nice, intelligent, and liberal, but they're not outstanding. His grandparents are unique. His grandfather believes in "The Elementary Need and the Universal Import of the Competitive Drive in Man." His grandmother makes Dawes listen to every preacher on the radio all Sunday morning. But even they are unimportant compared to the one great influence in Dawes' early life: Abigail Winas...