vicissitudes of soul

Nola 2022-04-19 09:01:49

Gray sky, gray town, and even the relationship between people are gray. When the interests lie in front of the so-called family, these people who have been frowning have to give up something. The young body has an old soul. The tempering of life brings not only calluses on the hands, but also a firm will. Those unnecessary fragility can only be left to the mother who ignores the world. vent. After all, she is only a 17-year-old child. She can proudly say "I am the backbone of the family", but why can't she allow her to collapse.

But Ree is lucky, her relatives are still cold-faced and warm-hearted, and they all lend a helping hand more or less behind the last resort. Who killed her father and what her father did is not important. In the end, there is no need to The younger brother gave it away, and he can stay in the house and continue to live a life of hardship is very complete. The whole film is like those simple country ballads, it's always been flat, but that's life. A life in which we suffer but cannot escape.

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  • Gail: [after asking her husband to let her use his truck] He said no.

    Ree: Did you tell him I'd spring for gas?

    Gail: I told him. He still won't.

    Ree: Why not?

    Gail: He never says why not to me, Ree, he just says no.

    Ree: Man, it's so sad to hear you say he won't let you do somethin' and then you *don't* do it.

    Gail: It's different once you're married.

    Ree: It really must be. 'Cause you ain't never used to eat no shit.

  • Ree: He might be hangin' around with Little Arthur and them. You think?

    Teardrop: You don't wanna go around Little Arthur's askin' them people about anything they ain't offered to talk about. That's a real good way to end up et by hogs... or wishin' you was.