The Ox (Oxen) Sweden 1991 (embedded multisubs) Sven Nykvist , Director

In Swedish with embedded subtitle tracks in English, Norwegian and Svenska.



This is a great movie offering from Sweden although it will depress you to

view it in its entirety if you have any sensitivity on the issues that are

raised in it.



You may be familiar with some of the history of the great Irish spirited folk

who were sent packing from Britain and headed to a lovely land today they call

Australia. It is my sincere view and hope that the future leadership for the

world will in fact come from this continent island as I think our best

successes have been achieved there in a way that best guides the most human

spirit we see having survived such similar evolutionary factors as to make them

special for our purposes here. The point is that harsh treatment and insanely

cruel standards of justice have often been applied in times of great economic

depression or in areas devoid of real spiritual guidance in favour of religious

fundamentalism of the extremist variety.



This movie speaks to the issues of harsh justice in the grief that befalls a

fine young couple that you see above. The man is quite Irish spirited as we

understand the genre and the lovely wife with him is in fact well meaning and

well intentioned for him and grief is all that we see come in this tragic tale

of cruelty that seems to find little to comfort those suffering in the

circumstances of near starvation conditions and the extremely harsh penalties

meted out in these conditions as I refer to above here.



The Swedes are a warm humanistic people who give the Irish their spirit in

what all admire as Christianly beauty. Thats a great enough legacy to always

consider that they are family roots to those of us that come from this spirit

and in this respect this movie is greatly interesting to view to avoid mistakes

that have known to befall the great spirited folk that come from this world.



Michael Rizzo Chessman

review posted at moviesbyrizzo.info