At first this vision seems like a bleak contrast to the world of the film, until one remembers that the 25 years immediately following the making of this film w

At first this vision seems like a bleak contrast to the world of the film, until one remembers that the 25 years immediately following the making of this film were arguably the bloodiest in world history, containing the great depression, WWII, the holocaust, and huge famines in communist Russia and China.