The teacher played it for us at the cinema. A warm road movie, based on a true story, when an old man named Straight heard that his brother who quarreled and ran away when he was young was injured, he used a modified garden farm vehicle to go from Iowa to Wisconsin. Attributed to good stories. (Actually, the distance searched on Google shows that one person has to walk for about three days, and it is not as long as imagined...)
And the whole film is a very smooth record of the living conditions of the Americans. It records the mental trauma of the generation after World War II, as well as the prosperity of the American economy after the war. The old man in the film was not in good health when he acted in this movie. He was already in the advanced stage of cancer. The physical pain of the old man in the film was real.
At the end of the film, the two of them reconciled without any apology, and the sentence "You are here to see me?" and the flat expressions of the two people brought tears to my eyes. Maybe I want to say that I don't know what moved me to tears, maybe it's this spirit, maybe it's a contradiction that is not worth mentioning that has been diluted by time, maybe it's the source of the old man's fear and courage in life. The pain may be that he said that the sad thing after getting old is that you still remember that you were young, and his comrades are still young faces...
The whole story also conveys the kind of spirit that Americans yearn for, in addition to self perseverance, independence, kindness, willingness to help others, to achieve goals despite hardships, and feelings for family members, and these are regardless of nationality and country. .
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