The story told in the film The World to Come (2020) can be seen as a love story that has its beginning in the year 1856 and focuses on two couples. One of them already established in a farm and the other arriving with the intent of establishing in a nearby farm they rented. Since the beginning it is quite obvious who are the characters who would go through the process of falling love with each other. The rural region is quite unattractive and deprived of the basics for a comfortable life, although the newcomers seemed to be used to a better life. Since the beginning the two wives got along very well which, somehow, paved the way that took both into having an affair. Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby are very good in the roles they play - it is a fact though that their characters are much more interesting and fitted to each other than those of their husbands, interpreted by Casey Affleck and Christopher Abbott respectively. I think this is a film that would attract those who live a conformed miserable emotional life and have no means for changing it.
Review of The World to Come
