The distant road became his own landscape

Vickie 2022-04-22 07:01:30

Although the pace is slow, the wonderful scenery, absurd but interesting journey, and rich emotions make this film vivid and moving. It is precisely because of this rhythm that the emotions between the characters in the film are delicate, candid and true. I remember that cloudy scenes in the film are rare, and the cloudy scene at the end separates the journey and the destination well. At the end, when the old brothers met again, there were tears in their eyes. The stars they saw seemed to be the same stars of the year, but the years have changed their faces and marked their respective life trajectories with ups and downs.

After experiencing youth and struggle, the old man used a slow tractor journey to tell us that life can be peaceful and beautiful.

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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]