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Oxen (The Ox - 1991) - directed by Sven Nykvist starring Stellan Skarsgård, Ewa Fröling

This is a great movie offering from Sweden although it will depress you to view it in its 
entirety if you have any sensitivity on the issues that are raised in it.

You may be familiar with some of the history of the great Irish spirited folk who were sent packing 
from Britain and headed to a lovely land today they call Australia. It is my sincere view and hope that 
the future leadership for the world will in fact come from this continent island as I think our best 
successes have been achieved there in a way that best guides the most human spirit we see having survived 
such similar evolutionary factors as to make them special for our purposes here. The point is that harsh 
treatment and insanely cruel standards of justice have often been applied in times of great economic 
depression or in areas devoid of real spiritual guidance in favour of religious fundamentalism of the 
extremism variety.

This movie speaks to the issues of harsh justice and the grief that befalls a fine young couple that you see above. 
The man is quite Irish spirited as we understand the genre and the lovely wife with him is in fact well meaning and 
well intentioned for him and grief is all that we see come in this tragic tale of cruelty that seems to find little to 
comfort those suffering in the circumstances of near starvation conditions and the extremely harsh penalties meted 
out in these conditions as i refer to above here.

Michael Rizzo Chessman

michaelc@michaelchessman.com

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