"Minari" is translated as "Minari", which actually means water celery in Korean. It talks about what a Korean immigrant family faced in American rural life, the individuals who separated the family members and the mutual isolation and integration of the cultures that stood behind them.
Behind her mother, Monica, there is more of a collectivist family culture. She cares about whether the family is together or not. It doesn't matter what job you do. As long as the whole family can live in harmony without worrying about food and clothing, she will do it all.
Behind father Jacob is more of an individualistic family culture. What he cares about is what he wants to do. The personal value he has obtained can best be given to the family. If not, he hopes to continue to insist on what he thinks.
Although the grandma who came to the United States from South Korea has a very traditional local thinking behind her, she may not have a sense of boundaries, and she violated the personal space of many of her grandson David. However, her sense of borderlessness made her have many grandmothers who were eager to protect their grandchildren and family. She drank David's urine by mistake and didn't make much of a fight. She had a stroke and just hoped that she could take on more housework for the family, which was embarrassing.
The grandson David is very interesting. He lives in the United States and wears the iconic cowboy boots. The reason why he doesn't like his grandma is because she is not enough to do housework like grandma in most East Asian societies.
Everyone in this film has a culture they believe in, or a culture they think they should believe in. Each of them is trying to get along with specific people, to let go of some others, and to strengthen part of themselves.
Just like the water celery and vegetables brought from South Korea that grow in the mountains of the United States, they grow in the right place in nature. It is a strange place tens of thousands of kilometers away, or it is after your own mountain that gave birth to you and raised you. what is the relationship.
Everyone grows in their own place, and then find others.
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