Response to Picture Bride

The "Picture Bride" was perhaps the best movie choice to watch in conjunction with our Takaki readings because complement each other perfectly. The movie provided me with a visual and motion picture representation of the stories told by Takaki of the immigrants and their struggle when they arrived to Hawaii. The film depicted their life styles and the hard toils of their labor, putting into prospective how much they actually made, and how little they were surviving on, which is essentially what Takaki writes in his passages. I enjoyed how the film was able to show all the preserved history as well as relay a story as well so effectively, as I found myself engaged in the story line as well.

My only question that I had during the movie was that: What was the significance of the centipede crawling into the fields, and juxtaposing the shots of the guy in charge at the plantation?