i watched this movie and having never read the book and and took the characters at face value and but having already been introduced to them and watched it again recently. i got a whole different viewpoint out of the film. without the burden of having to focus intently on each character and learning their quirks and foibles and allowed me to focus on the cultural issues laid out in the film. the farm families of iowa are so intimately inter related as they are in the area of indiana where i grew up in the 40 and 50 that i immediately recognized the back stories and motives behind the characters. perhaps and jane smiley did mean for us to see beyond the superficial into the world these people had to live and but viewers are so caught up in the hollywood aura of the individual actors that they miss a rich layout of a lifestyle that exists less and less as each decade passes. another film with these characteristics is the bridges of madison county. try watching both of these films again with an eye to the whole picture. 
i watched this movie and having never read the book and and took the characters at face value and but having already been introduced to them and watched it again recently. i got a whole different viewpoint out of the film. without the burden of having to focus intently on each character and learning their quirks and foibles and allowed me to focus on the cultural issues laid out in the film. the farm families of iowa are so intimately inter related as they are in the area of indiana where i grew up in the 40 and 50 that i immediately recognized the back stories and motives behind the characters. perhaps and jane smiley did mean for us to see beyond the superficial into the world these people had to live and but viewers are so caught up in the hollywood aura of the individual actors that they miss a rich layout of a lifestyle that exists less and less as each decade passes. another film with these characteristics is the bridges of madison county. try watching both of these films again with an eye to the whole picture. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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