The Yearling
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Movie Reviews of The Yearling
Movie Review: the yearling
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinman Rawlings
If you like books with slow beginnings, dramatic middles and depressing endings than this is the book for you.
Jody Baxter along with his parents Penny and Ory live on their own island near the scrub called Baxter's island.
Every day Jody longs for a pet but his father always tells him his mother would not approve. It may be just me but I thought that was crazy.
One day things begin to change when Penny gets bit by a rattler and he takes a mother doe's life. Jody begs his father until he cracks. Jody wraps himself up with this fawn just like any child would.
Just as always friends must leave and Jody must part with his beloved fawn. I found this book to be depressing but yet full of hours and hours of fun. I think any child would like it. This book is a great work of literature.
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Jadon
Movie Review: Beautifully photographed - a classic family film
Summary: 5 Stars
Urban children, like I was, may find this film especially tough. Farm-raised children will find much to identify with.This is a sentimental film about unsentimentality. It's tough to see people living lives so fragile, it is threatened by the existence of a single pet fawn who forces a choice between its life and those of this small family struggling to survive in backwoods Florida when the fawn can't be kept out of the vegetable patch.
But there's much to appreciate here about familial relationships, human change and growth, childhood innocence and awe, simple pleasures. The story itself is beautiful if heartbreaking. I love the film. It is typical of family films from the 40's and 50's - characters are done archetypically - the father's kind, moral, hardworking; the mother cold, strict, hard hearted; the child innocent, honest, ernest; the pet fawn cute and used as a vehicle for the boy's rite of passage into the brutal world of adults ...
Movie Review: Break out the hankies--a heartbreaker, well worth the weeping
Summary: 5 Stars
Since I've been on a Jane Wyman kick this past couple of months, The Yearling finally ended up in the old DVD player. Boy--was I in for a surprise. I expected to like it just because she's in it (does she ever let us down? Nope.) But, I thought it would be a lighter film than it is, more animal story than deep, moving, insightful look at both the glory and horror of life.
Focusing on the story of Jody, a lonely but loving boy growing up in post-Civil War Florida, it shows how the rough conditions and the difficulties of scraping a living shape him and his family as they struggle to survive, physically and emotionally. Three terrific performances. OK, sure, there are a few awkward, stagey moments, but these are easily overlooked when compared to the strength and beauty of the rest of it.
Not for young kids--too sad--but certainly great fare for the rest of the family to watch and discuss.
Movie Review: A Gentle Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember watching this in the 1950's as a child and barely able to understand the movie's themes. The ending is what I kept in my mind for many, many years. It is not a flashy, special effects movie and I can certainly understand most people finding it boring compared to the fast paced movies common today.
This is a gentle movie with each actor playing their part to reflect accurately the characters in the book. The young actor who was chosen for Jody does not play Jody, he is Jody. One of the most moving scenes in addition to where Jody shots Flag is the scene with Jody and Fodderwing in the tree house. A quiet classic one should listen and watch with care. The yearling is also a metaphor to Jody with the yearling's death, Jody's loss of childhood is reflected in this. Even to this day, I become misty eyed at the ending. A quiet classic.
Movie Review: A tender growing of age story
Summary: 5 Stars
The YEARLING, is a wonderful story of a family living in the post Civil War era of Florida.(1870's) Gregory Peck is the "Pa" to Jody (Claude Jarman, Jr) who shows him how to hunt bears, plant crops, & wonderful storytelling at nite."Ma" is Jane Wyman who holds the whole family together, whose greatest wish is to have a well nearer the house. Jody grows to love a fawn whose mother was sacrificed to save Pa after he was bitten by a rattle snake, while hunting. Jody eventually names the fawn Flag, after his special friend dies who loves animals himself. But with growth comes anguish, Flag eats the crops. Jody builds a fence that Flag sails over to eat the second planting. Ma & Pa insist that Flag go. Well, I wont tell the whole story. This is DEFINITELY a family movie,showing the trials & tribulations of love & letting go.