Far from the Madding Crowd tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene, a headstrong and independent woman who becomes the center of attention for three suitors: a sheep farmer, a wealthy bachelor, and a military officer. As she navigates through love, loyalty, and betrayal, Bathsheba must make difficult choices that will shape her future.
In the countryside of 1970s Sweden, a farmer's daughter falls in love with a city girl as they navigate the challenges of homophobia and feminist activism.
A shaggy dog is the guard at a farm's chicken coop when a lip-smacking weasel comes along, intending to gain access to the chickens.
An alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It's a world of circles - often seen from above: an espresso cup, a stairwell, the pills, and the records spinning. At the dance where the music plays, the rhythms evoke images of a butcher slicing head cheese, gears driving other wheels and levers, a combine churning out bales of hay, a butcher cutting chunks of meat for a stew, and boxers punching. The circle of music and life.
Out in the farm-lands near Portland, the Widow Walters lives with her daughter Ethel. As far as affections are concerned, those of the widow are confined to her daughter, until Squire Lang, a fat old widower, with his son Harry, moves onto the adjoining farm. One day Harry leaves his plowing, when he catches sight of Ethel. They rush to the gate to exchange felicities, but the squire wants Harry to return to his plowing, and the widow desires Ethel to resume her housework.
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