Days of Heaven : Abby was torn …

Abby was torn …


.. between the man she had loved .... for as long as she could remember.... And the man she was trying not to fall in love with.

As such neither relationship could be healthy. If she moved from the middle she could lose one or both.

Bill had put her in this impossible situation.. because he could no longer stand to see her doing hard yards toiling away, he could no longer stomach the thought of the city and the factories which were all of them furnaces one way or another of oppression.

And now she was stuck, afraid to be herself, afraid to examine how she felt.

Bill was rough and tumble .. the Farmer was refinement and gentility. The farmer had known and coped with relentless loneliness for so long, he was ready and willing to rejoice in their unity with Abby, to give her anything she wanted, and more.

Bill going away was the kindest thing he could do ... giving them space. But the farmer not expiring quickly enough started to churn away at Bill's feelings until he became desperate.

What was she to do? Be another man's wife but still be Bill's woman. Her guilt lying like a shroud over her entire existence preventing any normality in her life .. she was powerless to act, or to think, or indeed to even feel......


She had become, unwittingly, the pawn in 2 men's struggle with life.


Is there any area of life that isn't invariably a battlefield. Malick shows us, with such grace, perhaps not.



~..mf..~

Re: Abby was torn …

Great summation!
Top