Recuerdos, ritos y aprendizaje de la vida: A propósito de ¡Qué verde era mi valle! y otros filmes de Ford
- Autores: José María Latorre
- Localización: Nosferatu: Revista de cine, ISSN 1131-9372, Nº. 40, 2002 (Ejemplar dedicado a: El joven Ford), págs. 52-57
- Idioma: español
- Títulos paralelos:
- Memories, rites and learning about life
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Resumen
How green was my valley is a film about memory and learning about life, that of Huw Morgan, but filtered by the nostalgic memory of a hard but idealised time. Based on a work by the writer Richard Lewellyn, with a screenplay by Philip Dunne and photography by Arthur C. Miller, How green was my valley has a great deal in common with the subsequent The man who shot liberty valance, particularly regarding the melancholic evocation of a world which disappears with the advent of a new way of life. Thus, both the patriarch of the Huw family and the gun-toter who finally does away with the mythical bandit Valance, have only one possible way out; their disappearance. In the former, the Welsh mines grind to a halt with the upthurst of new capitals methods, while in the second, the "gun law" of the Far West has to give away to the legalist values of the new American democracy. This process of change is expressed in How green was my valley through the description of the rituals that structured the ols society, rituals which gradually lost their reason to be and ended up fading away: the miners no longer sing on returning to their everyday work. Like in many other movies by Ford (The man who shot liberty valance, Seven women, The grapes of wrath, Tobacco Road ...), the real hero is a closed society with no other way out than disappearance.
