Both Miss Lonelyhearts and Our Daily Bread focus on the suffering, spiritually, of the Great Depression of America. The actual economic situation during the Great Depression in New York City is described through many of the problems. It was time when people were desperate, living without any purposes. Besides, the pain of the people could not be lessened or relieved by any sector in society. Beginning from suffering, things turned out worsened because of wrong visions of the characters. They were weak, and their weakness went worse. People in the time of the Great Depression turned to movies, novels, or jigsaw puzzles. They did not confront with their illusion. Betty, the girlfriend of Miss Lonelyhearts is innocent but superficial. She brings failure to the farm. Shrike, who has a cynical feeling of distrust, is not any help at all when he denies ways out of suffering. Miss Lonelyhearts has some ideas about religion, but it fails as it cannot communicate with his correspondents as the language does not have the power to tell the truth. It is ironic when Miss Lonelihrats is shot at the time when he thinks he has converted religion.
The film Our Daily Bread is somewhat socialist, but it depicts the drive to go back to nature. It shows that people are just tiny cogs in the complicated world. A co-op is created, and the characters build the system of barter. The film shows a solution to the hopelessness of the Great Depression in America while Miss Lonelihearts fails to find a better ending or the problem-solving.
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