Days of Heaven (1978)

Bill and Abby, a young couple who to the outside world pretend to be brother and sister are living and working in Chicago at the beginning of the century. They want to escape the poverty and hard labour of the city and travel south. Together with the girl Linda (who acts as the narrator in the movie) they find employment on a farm in the Panhandle, Texas. When the harvest is over the young, rich and handsome farmer invites them to stay because he has fallen in love with Abby. When Bill and Abby discover that the farmer is seriously ill and has only got a year left to live they decide that Abby will accept his wedding proposal in order to make some benefit out of the situation. When the expected death fails to come, jealousy and impatience are slowly setting in and accidents become eventually inevitable.

Keywords: 1910s, accidental-death, accidental-fire, americana, anger, apple, arranged-marriage, bonfire, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brother-sister-relationship

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[last lines]::Linda: I was hopin' things would work out for her. She was a good friend of mine.

Linda: I've been thinking what to do wit' my future. I could be a mud doctor. Checkin' out the eart'. Underneat'.

Linda: Nobody's perfect. There was never a perfect person around. You just have half-angel and half-devil in you.

Linda: There were people sufferin' in pain and hunger. Some people their tongues were hangin' out of their mouths.

Harvest Hand: Your sister keep you warm at night, does she?

Linda: You know how people are. You tell them something, they start talking.

Linda: This farmer, he had a big spread, and a lot of money. Whoever was sitting in a chair when he'd come around, why they'd stand up and give it to him.::Linda: Wasn't no harm in him. You'd give him a flower, he'd keep it forever.