The film tells a series of stories about a girl from a small town in Ireland who went to a foreign country in New York, and then returned to her hometown due to a change in her family. This time, I think it should be about "choice".
The heroine Eilis was cowardly and overwhelmed at the beginning. Her going to New York seemed to me more like being forced to go by her sister. She had no job or ability in her hometown, and her future was bleak. Looking up at her sister and girlfriend. She couldn't give herself the future she wanted. The sister in the film once said, "Although I am happy to buy you skirts, I hope you can have a future in which you can buy skirts for yourself."
Eilis drifted all the way to New York. She was unfamiliar with life and could not integrate into the life here. Her strong homesickness devoured her little by little. Fortunately, her sister asked the priest to manage everything for her, and she slowly let herself be in doubt. She calmed down and started a normal life. Then, at a boring dance, she met Tony, an Italian-born guy who repaired water pipes. The process of meeting and getting to know each other became the best part of the film. Tony is handsome. The appearance and the glutinous accent make me even more addicted.••••••The arrival of tony makes the heroine's life begin to change. They go to the amusement park together, go swimming, and tony also takes her to meet her parents and family. This part of the party made my aunt smile even more. Tony fell in love with the heroine deeply, and the heroine also felt that there was a warm and reliable harbor in this completely unfamiliar reinforced concrete sea. The accident happened suddenly. The sudden death of her sister hit her hard. This is how life is. When you think everything is getting better, you suddenly slap you in the face. She is going home for the funeral, but will she come back? She's gone, what about tony? Ireland is not close to New York.••••••When tony looks at the heroine affectionately, and says "marry me .marry me" in a milky voice ! Marry! All my son-in-law should be kept out, please!!) They went to New York City Hall to go through the marriage formalities without telling everyone around them, and they gave each other a promise in the future. At this time, the heroine who returned to her hometown has become a returnee from overseas to outsiders. She didn't realize her change at first, but the people around her silently put many bright labels on her. She got to know Gao Fushuai who was introduced to her by her best friend, and took over her sister's original job. All this happened naturally and smoothly, but these were things that she didn't dare to imagine at all. Slowly, she began to accept the influx of thing. It can be seen that she has not opened the letter that Tony sent her. I believe that the heroine has been lost in this gentle village.
When everyone thought that she and Gao Fushuai could talk about the wedding in a logical way, the employer of the old woman who had worked in a small shop before asked her maliciously about her marriage in New York. The hostess was stunned at first. Then she told her her name angrily, then rushed out the door, bought a ticket, went back to New York, hugged and kissed happily with Tony who ran over on the streets of New York at dusk, and finished.
This is a movie with a strong story in general. Throughout the whole film, you can see the entire growth experience of the heroine. But what I want to say is that many people see it as a film in which the heroine simply grows up, saying that the heroine found herself in the end. However, in my opinion, when the heroine actually returned to her hometown, she had already accepted the labels given to her by her hometown. Sometimes, the reason why people are confident is not that they really have something, but that the outside has given you this kind of self-confidence. Labels, we can see that the heroine only accepted this label after being praised and praised by friends, relatives, and even passers-by, and she became more and more confident, believing that she could also get the tall, rich and handsome she wanted before. Love, a decent job, and a well-informed experience in everyone's eyes. At this time, I believe that the heroine is no longer willing to return to New York, that cramped room, that hard job, and more importantly, that An ethereal future that needs to work hard with Tony. Everything is here, and the day of returning to New York is getting closer and closer. When the nasty old woman asks her strangely about getting married in New York, she is first stunned, then panicked, and finally angry. Here, I think this old woman represents the old and pedantic symbol of the hometown, the so-called moral standard that the people of the city abide by. In that world, they can be said to rely on the old and sell the old based on their age, standing on the moral commanding heights. Cut off anything that slants off the side branches of this town. The heroine first panicked that her marriage was noticed, and then remembered that the town was still as rotten as before, so I think she can also be said to "have" to go back to New York, if there is no assistance from the old woman, I believe she will definitely leave Tony behind, marry Gao Fushuai, inherit his family property, and live a well-off life that everyone in the town envies.
I think that's the beauty of this film, some people insist that she's always going back to New York, but I don't think so. I am sure that the heroine has grown up, and I think she has also grown up with ambition. I wonder if it is a kind of thought deliberately passed on by the director. We will eventually grow up and become reality. Especially as a pessimistic personality, I believe that the heroine must have made a decision after weighing the pros and cons.
In the last scene, she was leaning against the scarlet wall in a thin green knitted sweater and a warm yellow dress. The plane trees were swaying in the bright sunshine. She runs.
Some say it's a romance, well, bless.
Watching this movie reminded me of how I fell in love with movies in the first place. I also have the same choice as the heroine. There is a saying that "since the film came out, human lifespan has been extended by at least three times." In the interplay of light and shadow, I can always think of myself at a certain moment. In a few years, in a foreign country, how will I live? When reality and dream conflict, how will I choose? If I were eilis, from the beginning, I would not have chosen to go back to Ireland.
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