How Green Was My Valley

Saw How Green Was My Valley. It was an epic of the Thorton Wilder type (a family's adventures through the ages.) It was very episodic, almost a series of anecdotes. The whole affair was extremely sentimental. It had enough going on inside of it to support and sort of earn the sentiment, but it still annoyed me. The lead in particular was sometimes just too precious. It dealt with class warfare, society vs the individual, family, etc etc. There was a vignette about a lot of things. There was a neat Metropolis-esque sequence where miners march into the whirring elevator of the coal mine, swallowed whole.