Will this be Old Man Warner's "lucky year"? He's no doubt praying that it isn't.
A 1969 film adaptation of Shirley Jackson's horrifying classic short story "The Lottery".
I first read "The Lottery" during my freshman year of college. Our English instructor Phil Conte promised that this story would scare us as few things in literature could. What was Jackson trying to convey with her tale? The older I get the more I believe that "The Lottery" is a dark parable about rigid conformity and obedience to mob mentality. Something that must be sacrificed to if it's to have any power. In my mind the people of the town are no different from those among us who place party over all else, even if their loved ones must suffer for that.
Or, well... who knows what Jackson meant? Almost eighty years later and here we are still debating it.
Anyhoo, enjoy the above adaptation.
2 comments:
Beat you by one year Chris! We read The Lottery for honors English in senior year in high school. We spent two whole days discussing it. At the end of which our teacher showed us this film. It certainly got us thinking.
Everyone else seems to have read "The Lottery" in high school but me.
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