Film Analysis: The Ice Storm

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The Ice Storm is an American drama movie from 1997 directed by Ang Lee, based on the novel with the same name by Rick Moody from 1994. The movie is set in 1973 during Thanksgiving and it is about growing up in affluent New Canaan, Connecticut, during the last years of the sexual revolution. In the begging of the movie the mood is very melancholy because of the sad music and the first thing we see is a lonely train stuck in the cold, after a little while the train starts to move and the ice starts to melt, the mood become happier. In the movie we follow to families who are neighbors, the families are the two middle class families the Hoods and the Carvers.They are the main characters in the movie. The Hoods are Ben(father), Elena(mother),