Resist the centripetal force that rots together

Nakia 2022-04-24 07:01:06

During the nearly two hours of watching the movie, I kept thinking about where this faint sense of melancholy came from. It was not until the heroine Eilis was pressed by the ill-intentioned Mrs Kelly that she realized it, and the theme of the whole play was also revealed.

I'd forgotten.
I'd forgotten what this town is like.

Just like all of us who flock to North, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Eilis, who left Ireland and stayed in Brooklyn, doesn't actually hate her hometown, she even misses her very much, there is her beloved here His sister (although later died), always thinking about his mother, his good friend Nancy, and even a local golden bachelor Jim after returning from New York to Ireland.

But Eilis still decided to cross the ocean again and return to Brooklyn, New York, where she will continue to work hard, because there is her beloved new husband, her career, her yearning and pursuit for the future, and all this is related to the world. What an isolated town cannot give.

Yearning and pursuit have never appeared in the life of the small town.

As Eilis accused Mrs. Kelly of good deeds, a small town cut off from the world is not a wonderland as fairy tales or magic tales suggest. Ease and wanting nothing is hell to our restless young hearts.
In fact, it is more like a numb old man. What he does other than firewood, rice, oil and salt has no purpose at all. It is not for harm or flattery. All those who wanted to escape were pulled back tightly and rotted together.

This kind of aimless waiting for destruction is the ultimate tragedy of marginal towns.

We are not as special as we imagined. Most of the phenomena that occur in Western countries are staged in mainland China in a similar form. The large number of laborers in China now flocking to the first-tier cities is the wave of Irish immigrants at that time, in order to find life. different possibilities.

I believe that many people from Beidrift can understand what Eilis felt when he went home to attend his sister's funeral in the second half of the film.
Every half a month of the Chinese New Year, we will meet again with our childhood friends. Maybe we know the same city but have never met. Now he is the middle-level management of urban institutions, and is a "high-quality" man who is oriented towards marriage as the purpose of falling in love.

The retention of friends, the pursuit of a new good gentleman, the nostalgia of parents, the recognition of others' professional skills and "broad vision", these seemingly beautiful atmospheres have given us a short-term comfort and peace for this hometown where we have never had a good impression. Good impression, questioned his own struggles and retention outside.
But it only takes one Mrs Kelly to make us see why we chose to leave in the first place.

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Extended Reading
  • Brett 2022-03-21 09:01:51

    This movie is so boring. . . This year's Oscar nominations for best picture are basically hanging in the air. . . Period drama, historical setting, lifeless.

  • Maddison 2022-03-21 09:01:51

    When the other party asks you if you want to watch a movie on a date, you have to answer that I am willing to watch it twice; before marriage, the other party asks you to consider whether you can live with him or not, and you have to answer that I don’t need to think about it. The love between the two is so beautiful, and the girl's independent and sober personality is also popular. Traveling in a foreign land, homesickness and autism are all necessary processes. Irish girl's American dream, light and smooth. In the face of life and emotional choices, it is inevitable to be confused, and staying awake is the most important thing.

Brooklyn quotes

  • [last lines]

    Eilis: [instructing new immigrant] You have to think like an American. You'll feel so homesick that you'll want to die, and there's nothing you can do about it apart from endure it. But you will, and it won't kill you. And one day the sun will come out - you might not even notice straight away, it'll be that faint. And then you'll catch yourself thinking about something or someone who has no connection with the past. Someone who's only yours. And you'll realize... that this is where your life is.

  • Eilis: I'd forgotten what this town is like. What were you planning to do, Miss Kelly? Keep me away from Jim? Stop me from going back to America? Perhaps you didn't even know. Perhaps it was enough for you to know that you could ruin me. My name is Eilis Fiorello.