Travel with the old man who drives the tractor

Lexie 2022-04-21 09:02:10

Rating: 8.8 Comments: This film should be regarded as a typical road film. I started to fall in love with road films from this one (the previous "Green Book", "Daydreamer", etc. were not really into the pit) All the framing and photography along the way gave me a real and beautiful picture, basically it can be said to follow the old man's tractor to travel. The background music is so soothing and relaxing. Although the rhythm is very slow, it is very comfortable. Personally, I don't think it is superfluous. I really love the background music for photography editing and lens changing! It's all so fitting. Blowing up the acting skills of the actors, the old man's eyebrows are full of unfinished connotations and stories. Richard's seventy-year-old protagonist, Alpha, sees this stubborn, personality, humorous, intelligent, warm old man, and he can't help thinking to himself, if I'm old, I can be satisfied like this. Death, aging, and disease are things that we didn’t even think about when we were young. Things that we thought were so far away might actually come inadvertently. At that time, we had become like our past selves. A person from two worlds - a guy who is by no means difficult to understand by himself. In the face of the suffering and helplessness experienced in life, can you only move forward with optimism? A pessimist may ask why, but I think the answer is that there is no why, and life is the way it should be! The story unfolds as the old man Alpha sets off on the road. First of all, it was a bad start. It turned out that the tractor was scrapped, and it was pulled back by the rescue vehicle before it went far. In a rage, the old man took the shotgun that had killed countless enemies and shot the pile of junk. When the new small green number is re-arranged, and when we set off again to meet the pregnant little girl who ran away from home, we will wake up the meaning of each other's home. After a series of stories finally let the old man find his brother. Not only is the scenery beautiful, but the people are also beautiful. Sincerity and kindness between people, it conveys the theme of love, and it is a very tender movie.

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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]