I like "Minari", although such a small but beautiful family art film has more and more traces of mass production, it is still a superb work. The most important thing is that the film handles the relationship between several pairs of each other very well. The American immigrant family is the example, the Korean-style parent-child relationship is the inside, the disputes between husband and wife are the example, the help and compromise are the inside, and the specific life of the firewood, rice, oil and salt is the example. , the religious destiny of the detachment is in the li, from Korea to the United States, from California to the country, and the water celery can grow naturally and healthily everywhere.
The title "Minari" is the transliteration of water celery, a vegetable that my grandmother admires most in the film. She is the grandmother who is "not like a grandmother" in the mouth of her younger brother. She is careless, disrespectful, does not believe in ghosts and gods, and is pragmatic. She introduced the refined and transparent spirit of water celery to the family, laughing at "there are wheels under the house" and "drinking Grandson's urine" is very interesting, saying "grandma protects you, you won't die, you don't need to go to heaven" to the younger brother who has a heart disease, and to the younger brother who tried to attack the snake with stones "rather than let it hide, it is better to watch. Well, the hidden things are more dangerous and terrifying."
As the core character of the whole film, the grandmother subtly gave up the spirit of improvement, the younger brother's condition improved, but she symbolically suffered a stroke. The farm worker Paul is also a marginal figure with symbolic meaning. He is responsible for contrasting with his grandmother. He talks in spirits, recites scriptures to exorcise demons, and carries a cross on the road alone, claiming that the land is unlucky and he wants to build his own church. The spirit of "water celery" and begging for help are worse than begging for ghosts and gods. And one of the things that makes the movie comfortable to watch is that its logic is smooth. Dad Jacob was reluctant to pay a high price to hire someone to drill a water well. The well he drilled quickly dried up, making it increasingly difficult to use water on the farm and at home. Grandma was incapacitated after a stroke while burning garbage and caused a fire. There was no water available and the barn burned down. do. After finally finding a buyer, the farm business was once again a waste of water, which seemed to be fate, but in the end, the family fully carried forward the spirit of "water celery", and the spring breeze blew again.
The film uses a large number of bland scenes to deal with the narrative, and the blank space and metaphors are interspersed with ease, which is fresh and not abrupt. The secret contest between the couple in their job of identifying the sex of the chicks, the younger brother dislikes the "Korean flavor" on the grandmother, the grandmother stealing the donated change from the box when she was in church, and so on. At the same time, the demure and restrained, sad but not sad oriental beauty of the composition and colors of the movie screen makes the movie unique.
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