reconcile with yourself

Quinn 2022-04-20 09:01:42

"The Story of Mr. Street"

I'm always attracted to the tunes of movies, I like road movies very much, and seeing this movie reminds me of "Love Before Memories". I also remembered the news from the previous paragraph, the story of a woman in her fifties who traveled the country by car after her children got married.

summary of the story:

73-year-old Street, who suffers from a series of complications such as diabetes, and his stuttering daughter depend on each other. One day, he received a phone call from Mount Zion, and learned that due to some things, he had separated from his brother who had not seen each other for more than ten years (Lai). Er) had a stroke and decided to drive alone to Mount Zion in a converted lawn mowing "RV". On the way, Street met various "passers-by", told them his story, and finally met his younger brother and repaired his relationship with Lyle.

1. When I watched this film, I remembered another road film "Love Before Memories". This is an elderly couple with serious illness who decided to travel in an RV. And this movie is about the seriously ill brother taking the initiative to start a journey of emotional recovery with his younger brother. When we are young, we all have the strength to get angry, leave, reckless, choose not to forgive, but when we are young, we understand the preciousness of emotions.

2. Street used his own experience to help passers-by, but he thought about the troubles passers-by were worrying about, and he also walked through it step by step. On the way, Street met a girl who was pregnant and left home, and told her that "the family may hate her, but they don't want her to die." Brothers, tell them "A brother's brother" and that's why he must go to Lyle in person; reconcile the past with the veteran he encounters and reconcile with the past.

3. I like the episode of the film very much, warm and indifferent! And the details that the lawnmower broke down when Street was about to arrive at Lyle's house, and at the suggestion of a passerby, it was able to start again.

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The Straight Story quotes

  • Alvin Straight: Well, they may be mad. I don't think they're mad enough to want to lose you, or your little problem.

    Crystal: I don't know about that.

    Alvin Straight: Well, of course, neither do I, but a warm bed and a roof sounds a mite better than eating a hot dog on a stick with an old geezer that's travelling on a lawnmower.

  • Alvin Straight: Can I help you, lady?

    Deer Woman: No, you can't help me. No one can help me. I've tried driving with my lights on, I've tried sounding my horn, I scream out the window, I-I roll the window down and bang on the side of the door and play Public Enemy real loud! I have prayed to St. Francis of Assisi, St. Christopher too-what the heck! I've tried everything a person can do, and still, every week, I plow into at least one deer! I have hit thirteen deer in seven weeks driving down this road, mister! And I have to drive down this road! Every day, forty miles back and forth to work! I have to drive to work, and I have to drive home!

    [she looks at the open fields around her]

    Deer Woman: ...Where do they come from?

    [she kneels down and checks the deer's pulse]

    Deer Woman: He's dead.

    [she walks back towards her car]

    Deer Woman: And I love deer!

    [she gets in her car and drives off]