I ask, is it possable for obsession, desperation, and tradgity to push a man over the edge of sanity to maddness? The film The Field, written/directed by Jim Shariden and produced by Noel Pierson, shows one man's obsession with his field causes many tradgic events to occur. McCabe, played by Richard Harrison, is obsessed over a field that has been in his family for years,that had been bought by an English lady from his father durring the potato famine. McCabe now rents that land from her to keep the land n the family.
             One of the main problems in the filmis that the widow decides to sell the farm by putting it up for aution. McCabe is fine with the autioning off of the land because he knows that no one in the village would take the chance and bid against him. A critic for the Desert Sun News remarks that "...the larger-than-life "Bull" McCabe, a bearish bully who has terrozied his tiny village-not to mention his family-for years"(Hicks). In other words "The Bull" McCabe has alot of pull in the village and no one dare to cross him. Though in McCabe's mind the land was already his, there was a quick reality check in store.
             An outsider, which they called The American, played by Tom Berringer, unknowingly bid against McCabe and The American was willing to double and bid that McCabe made. In some senses The American could be viewed as the villian in this story. His idea was to bring this small Irish villige into a nw age by cementing McCabe's field in a campain for Roads and Factories. I believe that the fact that The American is rather ignorant to the way of life of those in the village slightly sways him away from the villiness type, because he belived he was doing something good by helping the town progress.
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