For the most part, I thought that Daughter in Law was a pretty good movie. This was another one of those films that seemed like something that many people can identify with on some level. In the film, we see a woman living in the desert with her father in law and coping with the news that her pilot husband has lost his life in World War II, yet continuing to hold out hope that just maybe its not true, and that he may one day return to her. The film used an interesting mix of flashbacks to convey life before the war when her husband was still around and she was happy. Through those flashbacks, the contrast between the joy of life pre-war and the loneliness felt after finding out that a loved one had become a casualty of war became quite clear and made the film more emotional.
With so many families in the United States dealing with their loved ones being sent to fight in the Middle East, this story seemed to be very relevant to the current state of our society. I'm sure that there are many people that relate to what the woman went through in the film and understand the heartbreak and emptiness that she felt. In this way, the film seemed capable of reaching its audience on a much more personal level than it might have otherwise and was quite powerful.
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I also really enjoyed the movie Daughter in Law. I felt I really learned a lot about different filming techniques that I hadn't found before in some of the previous films that we have watched. It was definitely something that in this day in age, many people can relate to. The number of solidiers we have abroad is astronomical and this fact made the movie more relevant than that of some of the other ones we have watched. You make a really good point about how this can definitely reach more people than some of the other movies and I really enjoyed that.
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