Of Mice and Men (1992)

Of Mice and Men

1.

Lennie is first of all a very sweet and soft person. But he’s mentally disabled and doesn’t know his physical strengths. He loves little soft alive things, like mice, dogs and women with long hair. When Lennie met one of them, he fall in love and at one point he hold them to his upper body, so strong and tight that they don’t survive and finally die. What we call cruel, but he never had a cruel intention to do that, because of his disable he couldn’t control himself. George Milton is a hard worker and he always makes people around him comfortable. George takes very much responsibility for Lennie. Although Lennie takes George always in trouble, George still loves Lennie and always tried to escape to protect Lennie. But enough is enough and at the end of the film, when Lennie killed Curley’s wife George shot Lennie in his head. This wasn’t cruel, this was saving his life of probably being tortured by Curley and the other workers of the ranch. Curley’s wife is a whole other story. She’s feeling lonely, because she’s the only female person in the ranch and she can’t leave the ranch too. Her husband doesn’t give her the love she deserves and she has nothing to do there either.
She talks in secret to some men on the ranch, and tries to seduce them. Well, in fact it’s cruel, because she skows what can happen if Curley finds out what she’s doing. But in reality we all understand her, she is seeking for love, she wants to be beloved by other men. Candy is an very old man, he’s probably over 55 years old and seems to have a lot life experience. He has a very old dog too and most men of the ranch doesn’t like him. One of his room mates decides on an evening to shot him. It was because it had so many flea. Candy didn’t watch him dieing, why? Because it did not care him at all, or because he wouldn’t be the one who killed his own dog? I think it was the last one. Candy loved his dog so much, but in fact it was better for all of them. Candy always fed his dog with his own food, so he had almost nothing left for itself.

2.

Why shoots George, Lennie at the end of the film?
I think that’s a good question. When Lennie strangled, so almost killed an other woman in the beginning of the film, George and Lennie had to run for there life. George lost his job and they could never go back to that place since the accident,
When Lennie killed Curley’s wife, the same story became reality. This time George knew that Lennie couldn’t escape and he knew that if he get caught up by Curley and the other ranch workers he would die in a very bad way. So George told Lennie his very last story about the rabbits and at the end he shot his best friend, Lennie. In this way Lennie shouldn’t feel the pain, he probably had felt if he was tortured by Curley.
In my opinion it was such a good end of this relationship, well it could have been better, but in this situation, it was the best way. George saved his own life and I think it wasn’t selfish, because he rescued Lennie either.

3.

I experienced this film as something tragic, but also something very beautyful.
It had a very psychological scenario, what made it interesting. It teached me that, people who are cruel, maybe have good intentions. And I realized that it’s sometimes very hard to live with mentally disabled people. I haven’t red the novel yet, so I can’t say that it might be an incentive novel. The movie is based on the book, so there must be a good tale line, like in the film.