The Homesman - A New Film Report

When folks start their gushing about all the things that THE HOMESMAN tells us about life out in the Nebraska Territory around eighteen-fifty - how young women went crazy from the loss of their children from the harsh elements -- or how they lost a mom that their husband had to drag out in the coldest weather with scarcely a decent burial - or how a mom had to dispose of a child-- who's starving -- by pitching him into a hole in the outhouse- I find it hard to grieve their grief. These hurts are horrible, yet we've seen so much bad in our round-the-world coverage -- twenty-four-hours-a-day -- that such trials don't sink in. ...