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1883 is one of Taylor Sheridan's most beautiful pieces to date. It introduces the Dutton family and their harrowing journey as they travel westward. Mr. Sheridan allows the viewer to fall in love with the Dutton family and the awe-inspiring beauty of the west as they travel toward their future destination.

I am a long-time Texas native, but Elsa's narrative is a love story to the west that allowed me to view my beloved state through fresh eyes. The cinematography is breathtaking and the vignettes that unfold throughout each episode are like a love story to the west that are primarily told through Elsa's point of view.

The viewer has the opportunity to experience the trials and hardships of Elsa's family as well as her idealistic, young love through her incredibly powerful first person narrative and it is an experience that I will not soon forget.

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill hold their own as Elsa's parents who love each other and their children fiercely as they fight their way west towards a new life and home in Montana.

I have viewed this piece twice now. I saw it the first time when my dear father was fighting his own battle against Alzheimer's disease many years ago. I was initially interested in this study because my father was a music professor and I was hoping to find some answers or conclusions that I could use to communicate with my father as he became non-verbal and was in his final days.

I spent a lot of time in the months before, interviewing my father. I wanted to know his favorite composers and his favorite pieces of music, so that I could make a playlist for him. For an individual who devoted themselves to the arts, this was a tall order.

My father and I have always had music as a way to communicate with each other, so I was hoping that music would be a way to reach him as his brain began to shut down as he parted this world. I was able to do that for him and I will be forever grateful.

Watching this documentary served me well to help prepare me for my own father's passing and to ready me to be a calm presence at his bedside playing his favorite pieces as he passed away peacefully.

I came into this film knowing nothing about the premise. I was swept quickly into the story and the main character due to the way that women were supposed to be either confined to a convent or society's idea of servitude by an arranged marriage through the eldest male in the family.

Our heroine throws off both of these ideas by quickly being expelled by her convent that her father placed her in at the age of 6, and returns to her ancestral home. Her father places an ad in the local paper in order to find her a husband and the rest of the film sorts out the rest.

Our heroine definitely has a mind of her own and lays out her conditions for this "marriage" and many humorous moments transpire as the young couple get to know each other.

Definitely listen to this movie in the original language of Magyar with the English subtitles to fully appreciate the subtleties and nuances of this film.