With the help of his fiancée and younger sister, a Chicago steelworker goes to the Texas panhandle to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer in 1910. Dreamlike authenticity is captured by Malick in his depiction of the love triangle, the locusts swarming, and the terrible inferno in this tale of turn-of-the-century American life.
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With the help of his fiancée and younger sister, a Chicago steelworker goes to the Texas panhandle to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer in 1910. Dreamlike authenticity is captured by Malick in his depiction of the love triangle, the locusts swarming, and the terrible inferno in this tale of turn-of-the-century American life.
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