The warmest road movie, the most stubborn stubborn old man.

Graciela 2022-04-20 09:01:42

This is one of the best road trip movies I've ever seen! Also the oldest protagonist I've ever seen in a road movie series! Without deliberately provocative, and without hunting for strange plots, I watched the whole movie so comfortably, but it gave people a lot of insights! The scenery of the natural fields is infinite, the farmland beside the road, the soothing and melodious background music full of rural style, an old man with gray beard and gray hair, driving an old lawn mower, dragging a homemade one for sleeping. The wooden carriage, driving slowly on the narrow road, over the mountains and over the mountains, spanning 370 miles, just to see his own brother. Ten years ago, because of a dispute between his brothers, he was stubborn and stubborn and had no contact with his brother for ten years. Guilt and longing tormented the aging old man. Hearing that his brother had suffered a stroke, he walked through towns and mountains and came to him. The scenery, people, things, and things along the way made his mood more precipitation, and he shared with others the pain and secrets brought by the battlefield, and gave his own example for the friendship between young brothers. When the two old men met, they saw their brother, regardless of the danger, only used such a dilapidated lawn mower to drag the wooden carriage and traveled for hundreds of miles in order to come to see him. , The thousand words that could not be said in the heart turned into tears in the wet eyes.

I have experienced the life of the battlefield, the life of losing my wife, the life of watching my daughter miss the child but unable to meet, and the life of my brother breaking up after old age, all of which are gradually relieved during this personal journey. The kind people you meet along the way also inject soul into the warm style of the movie.

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Extended Reading
  • Wallace 2022-04-24 07:01:07

    Neither light nor lighthearted, the trip was a rare adventure for Streeter, not because of the fear of living alone in the wilderness but because of a disobedient body whose car was actually himself, slow. , failure, persist. I really like the phrase "I still want to finish the things I started by myself". I met a group of people, who are nobles, passers-by and friends. I just want to see you, no need to talk, just see you.

  • Mireille 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    Lynch's road movie... Don't make assumptions about the plot before watching the movie, always thinking that something weird will happen to this old man, and it turns out. . . And the image style is also very different, it is the most different Lynch!

The Straight Story quotes

  • Alvin Straight: I haven't had a drink in a lotta years, but now I'm gonna have me a cold beer.

  • Alvin Straight: I want to thank you for your kindness to a stranger.

    Danny Riordan, Clermont Resident: It's been a genuine pleasure having you here, Alvin. Write to us some time.

    Alvin Straight: I will.