Be stubborn, maybe life will be easier

Catharine 2022-04-19 09:01:57

: Why did you drive this far? : I can't drive because of my bad eyes, and I hate people who drive, but I want to see my brother who has a stroke who hasn't spoken for ten years. : A kind person persuades a stubborn person. : If you had been in the trenches of World War II, you would have nothing to fear. The hitchhiker who was afraid to tell his family that he was pregnant, the farm family who helped repair the car, and the people who happened to meet at the cemetery, although they were all tools used by the protagonist to express his complicated life experience and truth, but when he confessed that he killed his comrades by mistake, he said that he This journey is for bridging the estrangement and summoning up the courage to meet my brother, it is not so far-fetched. More like atonement, and finding purpose and meaning. The most impressive is the lady who killed 13 deer in 7 weeks. She hysterically vented her frustration that she had done all the reminders but still killed the deer she liked, and also vented that she had to drive fast cars to and from home and work in life. helpless between.

On the road, the best thing is the unexpected surprise, which is not found in ordinary life, but it is what people have always pursued.

The shots are bland, even a little rough, but together with the soundtrack, it's an interesting story.

Many things are self-evident. Don't talk too much.

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Extended Reading
  • Allan 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    Right Dog's romantic old age of Iron Man is of course atypical Lynch in style, but very Lynch in theme: for Right Dog, it is of course important to present the evil and morbidity of contemporary life, but the secular family is the gateway to redemption ("Wild at Heart" overcomes sin and personal freedom with love and family). A little Charles Taylor may be cited, for Protestants the vocation of earthly life and the constitution of the family follow God's primacy, through which the ordinary is sanctified ("We live in our ordinary life, in our vocation work, to maintain one's family in mundane time").

The Straight Story quotes

  • Alvin Straight: There's no one knows your life better than a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone on earth. My brother and I said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but, I'm trying to put that behind me... and this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope I'm not too late... a brother's a brother.

  • Alvin Straight: Anger, vanity, you mix that together with liquor, you've got two brothers that haven't spoken in ten years. Ah, whatever it was that made me and Lyle so mad... don't matter anymore. I want to make peace, I want to sit with him, look up at the stars... like we used to do, so long ago.