Of mice and men :: English Literature

Of mice and men===============Of mice and men is a very touching film of hopes dreams andfriendship. Adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck. The film isabout 2 friends, Lennie and George, with a dream of great times withtheir own land and house. But there is a another story intertwinedwith theirs, about what people think of women. The two storiestogether entrust hold you in an array of emotions from joy to sorrow, andpride to guilt. This film if full of brilliant acting and meaningfuluses of light and props. Of the two stories we allow look at the oneabout women.We open the film with a man sitting in the shadows. Little light iscoming in by means of the slits in the wood he is leaning on. He looksdepressed and upset and bows his head as if hes trying to recall hismemories of what went wrong to lead to this depression. And then we ar suddenly in a field with early evening light filling a beautifullandscape, the main focus of our attention is of the woman cartroadacross the pic ture, shes white with brown hair wearing a tear reddress. As she runs we can see shes trying to run away variant somethingor somebody, shes crying and the only sound we hear is her distressedbreathing like she wants to cry but is holding the tears back. Shelooks like she has been attacked, although the dress is torn we onlysee a petty coat and not any flesh so this suggests that it might not hold up been sexual. But we cant really register for sure. The red dressrepresents passion so this says it could be sexual. We the see the twomain characters running so we now think that they are connected tothis. We never see this woman again in the whole of the story.The next woman we find is first only known as Curlys wife. Shefirst comes into the story when she enters the bunkhouse where Lennieand George have only just arrived and are unpacking. Shes wearing aflowery dress which could be seen as innocent as it is cool coloursand doesnt reveal more of her figure. Her hair is also in a ver yfeminine style again to show innocence.Im looking for curly she says, almost as if she needs an allay forbeing there. But also at the same time using it in an almost flirtysort of way trying to see how the new boys will react.He was in here a minute ago, but he left George replies cutting off