The story takes place in the 1980s. David, a seven-year-old Korean-American boy, is facing a strange new environment and lifestyle when his father, Jacob, moves his family from the West Coast to the remote Arkansas. His mother, Monica, was very much opposed to the family living together in a mobile home in the middle of nowhere. Naughty David and his sister are getting bored here, too. Later, his equally playful grandmother came to the United States from South Korea, and David's curiosity was aroused by her unusual nature. Meanwhile, Jacob's single-minded efforts to build a farm on undeveloped land put their finances, his marriage, and the stability of his family at risk. Minari is one such film, based on the director's childhood experience ,in which Zheng Yishuo uses affectionate writing and camera to tell the story of his parents' struggles, poignances and joys as first-generation immigrants. The story of "Minari" is not full of ups and downs. Most of the time in the film is about the details of the family, such as cooking, communicating and washing at home, planting and irrigation on the farm. "Mina" life stream of narrative set up films to figure to show the "real" and its associated with modernity, and the technology of the modern society is full of time or contrast to the city life, before modern time is around anniversaries and festivals in rural areas of public time, in addition to Monica go to church with his family and in return will always see Paul, carrying the cross walk time always is fuzzy,the lack of markers and this reflects both normal memory and forgetting mechanism, namely director fragmentation of childhood memories; It also uses this "event-free" narrative mode to highlight the tension between tradition and modernity -- in stark contrast to modern America, where water and electricity are often cut off in this isolated farm state of Arkansas. The joy and sadness in the film are also incubated in the flow of life with no special meaning and production. "Minari" proves, once again, that the most personal experiences are the most universal, unassuming and touching. The immigrants who came to the United States, fiercely and almost stubbornly fighting for their own version of the American dream, took to heart Minari's philosophy of survival -- that water celery plants struggle to survive even when they are carelessly planted by foreign streams. And that melodious song will be sung in immigrant families for generations: "Wonderful, Minari Minari, Wonderful."
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