We always have to let go of some fetters on the way forward, be it our parents or our hometown, but "home is home"

Katrine 2022-04-22 07:01:21

Quoting Teacher Long Yingtai's sentence:
The "home" that my mother wants to go back to is not any home with a zip code and a postman can find. The "home" she wants to go back to is not a space, but a period of time. During that time, young children were chasing and laughing, the aroma of fried fish was coming from the kitchen, her husband was covering her eyes from behind her and asking her to guess who it was, and someone shouted outside the door. "Delivery for a limited time, bring a stamp"...
--"Homecoming"

On the way of life, our parents, hometown, and friends always make us reluctant to part, especially for those who are in a foreign land, our hometown is our soul forever. A place of dreams. If we want to forge ahead bravely, we always have to let go of some attachments and feelings, but this is not to betray and forget, on the contrary, these should be our motivation to move forward.
The girl in red at the beginning of the film and the girl with ponytail at the end of the film, heavy makeup and no makeup, mature and green, that is the cycle of life, the heroine tells the girl with ponytail about her experience, hoping that those who have traveled across the ocean can raise their heads Hold your chest up and better meet the bright future. Isn't this a portrayal of our growth from generation to generation?

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  • Mrs. Keogh: I'll tell you this much: I am going to ask Father Flood to preach a sermon on the dangers of giddiness. I now see that giddiness is the eighth deadly sin. A giddy girl is every bit as evil as a slothful man, and the noise she makes is a lot worse. Now, enough.

  • Frankie Fiorello: So, first of all, I should say that we don't like Irish people.

    [General cries of outrage around the table]

    Frankie Fiorello: We don't! That is a well known fact! A big gang of Irish beat Maurizio up and he had to have stitches. And because the cops round here are Irish, nobody did anything about it.

    Maurizio: There are probably two sides to it. I might have said something I shouldn't, I can't remember now. Anyway, they probably weren't all Irish.

    Frankie Fiorello: They just had red hair and big legs.