A Thousand Acres

When Caroline, who was supposedly “Daddy’s favorite,” told her father she wanted to think over the division before she agreed was totally cut out from it all. Larry wanted nothing at all to do with her because she questioned him. This is where the film starts to make note that Larry isn’t the nicest man and that he may have some underlying problems. “A Thousand Acres covers a lot of ground, and raises numerous questions about the demons that some families keep buried” (Berardinelli).

After Larry’s betrayal of Caroline, it becomes more and more apparent that he’s losing his mind. He starts making accusations that Rose and Ginny

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Thus increasing the deception and betrayal within the family. After that, Ginny and Rose betray their husbands and each other by having an affair with Jess. At this point is when the deception and betrayal really kicks in. This is about the time in the film where the viewer learns of the incest between Larry, Ginny, and Rose. “Beyond the obvious effects of child abuse (physical injury and stress-related physical ailments) victims of emotional, physical, sexual, and verbal abuse experience psychological damage that can last a lifetime” (Newton).

In the beginning Larry betrays Caroline by cutting her from the inheritance. Caroline is oblivious to the incest and oblivious to the fact that her father has lost his mind and she doesn’t realize this until they actually go to court over the land.

After a large dispute out in the rain between Larry, Rose, Ginny, and their husbands, Rose and Ginny are sitting in the dark when Rose brings up how their father used to go into Ginny’s room when she was a young teen and have sex with her. What Newton is trying to explain is that the reason Ginny and Rose betray their husbands is because the psychological effects the incest created between their father and themselves. Caroline, who Rose saved from rape, thinks that her sisters are trying to take their father for all he’s worth.

At about the same time Rose and Ginny figure out they’ve been cheating on their husbands with the same man they also find out that Larry and Caroline are suing them to get the farm back.

The movie does not only portray the deception between Larry and the girls though. He gets to the stand and starts talking about irrelevant things that really don’t make any sense at all. He’s also making poor decisions like drinking and driving.

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