what a depressing movie
Didn't it suck! That poor couple. Didn't you feel so bad for them, all that rejection...... That Fransden was a weirdo, I felt bad for Brownie......lol
Tammie
I thought it was sweet.
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Ive read some ignorant comments before but this might take the ignorance cake. No it didn't "suck" - sorry the film told a story about real people and real emotions. Sorry nothing blew up or aliens didnt come down and attack - there's plenty of movies for people who wanna keep their brain in a jar - just dont insult a small film that tries to tell a story about real life. Sheesh.
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There is nothing that can be said that would improve this dull excuse for a movie. The time and location not withstanding, this movie was terrible. It could have been trimmed down 30 minutes and been much improved. It was too long, and extremely dull.
shareMy friend rented this movie and showed it to me by skipping all the flash forward scenes (where Inge is old). I enjoyed it that way.
shareI'm glad you enjoyed what you watched. It would be a more upbeat movie that way. But for the benefit of anyone else who could be reading this and hasn't seen the movie, I have to say I think you'd be short-changing yourself to watch it that way. The modern scenes with Inga as an elderly lady are what provides a frame for the story. When you see that Inga's and Olaf's love lasted many decades into their old age, that children and grandchildren came out of their union, that their lives affected so many others in the community, it give so much more poignancy to the 1920's portion of the movie.
sharemy goodness Tammie, the movie didn't suck, but i believe you or your attitude does! i would wager that you either have a room temperature I.Q. or you are one of those that i fear are allowed to vote, but i would wager you don't.
shareI'm a genealogy buff and knew exactly the situation of having your house and home taken out from you as Frandsen did. The situation in my Wisconsin family occurred in the 1880s (my GGGrandfather had died leaving my GGGrandmother alone and with 14 children) because of his terrible indebtedness. I have the papers-- including the names of other family members-- who had come to take their share of the property that my GGGrandmother could no longer hold on to. *Cold.* She and her one daughter and son-in-law moved to Nebraska where she lived-- with welcome arms-- for awhile. "Just business," I guess as that one character always said. This movie portrayed exactly as my research showed what happened to my GGGrandfather's family. What I couldn't figure out in the movie was that my GGGrandmother and the 14 children, "had places to go"-- other family members took them in or young men went out on their own to other places and adventures-- so were not left behind as coldly (it seems) as "Old Frandsen" was. Where was his family in his old age? And had he grown "senile?" At least he still had Olaf and his wife...
Flanagan
They had life long love, not a terrible thing. Fransden was not weird, just different from his neighbors. Definitely not a farmer. And Brownie seemed rather happy with him.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.