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The Grapes Of Wrath
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"The Grapes of Wrath" tells the story of the Joads, a displaced Oklahoman sharecropper family, and one of many forced to abandon their lands due to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by John Steinbeck, the film succeeds in depicting the poverty, to the extent of starvation, of the homeless Okies. There are other messages as well: the difficulty in maintaining a family in the face of adversity, the low value placed on the lives of migrant farm workers, and the injustices of the capitalist system.
Let me explain that last remark. "The Grapes of Wrath" is a pro-socialist film. Socialism was at its peak during the Great Depression, when it seemed that capitalism may have failed. Franklin Roosevelt was a socialist President, and the poor saw Big Government as a lifeline from their jobless despair. "The Grapes of Wrath" condemns the faceless banks for foreclosing on the Okies, the agricultural growers for......

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