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THE NEW LAND

writing a revue on "The New Land” isn't easy because when one finally gets out of the theatre after two hours and forty-five minutes, you are-exhausted. Many movies are quite longer in length

but at least they keep the audience in mind and have

an intermission,but not during "The New Land". The movie which deals only arou- nd family, leaves You expec—

tantly waiting for each mem--

ber of it to die just so that the movie will end.

"The New Land" is the fol- low up or sequel to the movie "The Emigrants", wh— ich dealt with the problems encountered by a Swedish family in their emigration to North America. Not having seen the first movie, I can't give the actual family connection between the two, but "The New Land" deals with a Swedish family trying to make a start in the "New World".

The movie begins in 1850, with the Swedish family taking an oxen cart through Minnesota territory to claim their piece of land they ha— ve bought. They arrive at a beautiful piece of land on a lake, and begin their ex— istence with only a one room shack. The whole movie revolves around the one fam- ily and the development of

\ their land in the new world.

The movie was so boring, just because it attempted to touch on just too many

g topics. Although it was 1 broad as “How The west Was

Won"(4 hours). it did try to cover a lot. It tries to deal with so many diverse

i problems as the Indian pro—

blems, war, pacifism, child- birth, religion death and a whole group of others. It touches on most of them so lightly that it does justice

ito none of them.

One of the problems they do pUt more emphasis on than most is the problems with

the Indians. At the begi- nning of the movie, the projected image through

the wife (Liv Ullmann) is fear and the idea is always give the Indians food so that they will go away. The image changes though with the husband (Max von Sydow) defending to a friend on how the land is rightfully his because he was the one who worked the'land.

The moVie later breaks

its form to put printing on the film describing how food supplies to Indians have be- en held off and the Indians were revolting. It then has a group of Indians (most of it in slow motion) killing men, women, children and the

’“insinuation that the INdians

were going to cut the baby out of a pregnant woman. After this though, they show“

7 33 Indians getting hung and

the whole matter is forgotf ’ten. . _ . The setting for the moVie and the photography of it was just eXCellent, though much of the visual effect of it is lost due to the way it is put together. They would drag out a sequence, but when they finally got to the climax of it, it would be cut short and the whole train of thought is dropped short. , ' There are some good parts to the film, but due to the length it is almost impos— sible to look at~the whole film in-a full perspective.