A picaresque tale on the powerlessness of human beings facing against the fugaciousness of life, meticulously executed with a Gainsborough-ish touch contributed by state-of-the-art utilization of natural light; "good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now"
2/16/2021 rewatch. Still too lefty for my world view. Although I disagree the remarks that characterized John Steinbeck and this work as communism. I hold the same position as John Ford did. I was completely sympathetic to Joad family. But I was not quite convinced the story being a great social study.