The Crucible
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Canada DVD detailsActor: Bruce Davison, Daniel Day-Lewis, Joan Allen, Paul Scofield, Winona RyderBrand: Fox DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 124 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: 20th Century Fox Product features:
DVD Reviews of The CrucibleDVD Review: It's the performances that make it work
This film, an historically inaccurate adaptation of a brilliant but historically inaccurate play by Arthur Miller that sought to find the emotional, rather than the historical center of the "crucible" that was Salem Village in 1692, is brought to life primarily through the vivid performances of Daniel Day-Lewis, Joan Allen, and in a rare excellent performance, Winona Ryder. I lost two of my Great-great-great, etc... Aunts in this bizarre episode of American History, one of whom, Rebecca Towne Nourse, is a main character in the play, while the second and third Towne women to be cried out against, Mary Towne Eastey and Sarah Towne Bridges-Cloyce, were not mentioned in Mr. Miller's play, but did actually play parts in the real events, which do not really resemble the play at all. In real life, the girls were quite young, 11 or younger, and as Abigail was only 11, there was no sexual relationship involved between her and anyone. Mr. Miller used sex to represent repression and so aged the girls and gave them back-stories that suited his purposes in order to find, as already stated, the emotional truth of the situation, rather than the literal truth. He was also writing during the House Un-american Activities trials, and used this piece of history to illustrate the perversion of justice that can occur when no one is watching and absolute power is handed over to corrupt people. In Salem Village (not Salem proper), the court was taken over by the church, "spectral" evidence was used against the orders of the Magistrate in charge of the jurisdiction (he was away in England for a while, and when he returned, 19 people had been hanged, and as more than 400 had been accused and imprisoned all over the place, three others had died of conditions; he shut down the trials immediately), and as those who were accused were stripped of their property which was then given to the accusers, it wasn't long before personal feuds became the reason behind most of the accusations. In this tiny village, a few hysterical girls led on by their hysterical parents and then fevered church leaders, were able to gain incredible power for a few months until afterwards, it was as though the whole thing had been a dream.
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