This movie, overall not a bad film, although it was quite a bit longer than it said on the container it came in...
That's neither here or there. Like I said, it's not a bad film. It's not a great film either, though.
First of all, there's a scene in the movie when the leading lady, named Inger, gives birth to a baby girl, sees it has a hair lip and buries it alive.
Okay, that much is understandable.
But Isak, the leading man, comes home from working the soil with their other two children in tow, on the day that Inger has murdered the baby girl with the hair lip and Isak doesn't even ask where the baby he surely knew his wife was going to have is. He did know that Inger was pregnant, right? Now for the second question. Inger is sentenced to eight years in jail for manslaughter. When the gendarmes come to pick her up, the other two children are there with her, but you never see them again! Where did they go? Did wolves get them? Did they get adopted? What? Inger gives birth in prison. Apparently Isak is the father. With what looks like a six-year-old girl in tow, she comes back to Isak. Still no sign of the other two children.
Those are two definite holes in that script! As for the movie itself, Isak decides to civilize a previously uncivilized area. Inger shows up, leaves for a while, comes back with a cow, Isak somehow comes back with a horse to the house.
Two meanies are also in the movie. Oline, a distant relative of Ingers and a guy who wears a hat that looks very much like the ones Elbonians wear in the comic strip "Dilbert".
Oline sees Inger bury the baby and tells Isak about it. For all his good points, strength, initiative, foresight, how could he not have missed the baby before Oline came and told him about it? The movie does end well, Isak and Inger put an arm around the other party and look around. That's why it gets a "6", but there are definite holes in the plot!
That's neither here or there. Like I said, it's not a bad film. It's not a great film either, though.
First of all, there's a scene in the movie when the leading lady, named Inger, gives birth to a baby girl, sees it has a hair lip and buries it alive.
Okay, that much is understandable.
But Isak, the leading man, comes home from working the soil with their other two children in tow, on the day that Inger has murdered the baby girl with the hair lip and Isak doesn't even ask where the baby he surely knew his wife was going to have is. He did know that Inger was pregnant, right? Now for the second question. Inger is sentenced to eight years in jail for manslaughter. When the gendarmes come to pick her up, the other two children are there with her, but you never see them again! Where did they go? Did wolves get them? Did they get adopted? What? Inger gives birth in prison. Apparently Isak is the father. With what looks like a six-year-old girl in tow, she comes back to Isak. Still no sign of the other two children.
Those are two definite holes in that script! As for the movie itself, Isak decides to civilize a previously uncivilized area. Inger shows up, leaves for a while, comes back with a cow, Isak somehow comes back with a horse to the house.
Two meanies are also in the movie. Oline, a distant relative of Ingers and a guy who wears a hat that looks very much like the ones Elbonians wear in the comic strip "Dilbert".
Oline sees Inger bury the baby and tells Isak about it. For all his good points, strength, initiative, foresight, how could he not have missed the baby before Oline came and told him about it? The movie does end well, Isak and Inger put an arm around the other party and look around. That's why it gets a "6", but there are definite holes in the plot!