Rooted everywhere, thriving

Alyson 2022-04-23 07:03:00

The film uses a peaceful tone to describe the life of immigrant Korean families in the United States, but it is such a soothing rhythm that is closest to the rhythm of life. Pressure, emotions, dreams, and family, in immigrant families, everything changes. It's even harder, Jacob doesn't want to work day in and day out to identify the sex of chicks, his dream is to have a large farm, and moving to the farm has indeed put the family in crisis, but this small family is tight again after the crisis. Unite together, showing a kind of vitality, like water celery, taking root and thriving everywhere. In fact, immigration is an unfamiliar subject. The cultural conflicts behind immigration, the difficulties of immigrant life, mental adjustment, ethnic discrimination, and simple words all have difficulties behind them. The uniqueness of the film is that it turns the perspective into rural America, dilutes the contradictions and conflicts, and puts it in many details, but it can resonate with every ordinary person. The film gives me more warmth. Although life is difficult, when Jacob saw his wife's laughter and went to kiss, when Jacob taught David to use his brain, when grandma and David were planting water celery together, the family was in church. , the American woman and Monica also praised her cuteness, not ridiculed her poor English, a fire made all efforts in vain, but they still started again. Clue Minari is more like a kind of spirit, a kind of tenacity, a kind of not giving up, a kind of vitality.

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Extended Reading
  • Newell 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    My rogue grandma in the Korean-American Dream has a very accurate grasp of ethnicity. As expected, East Asians want to farm wherever they go. They struggle, suffer, and really empathize. Yin Ruzhen should be able to go for a walk at the Oscars

  • Darryl 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    The winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, in a year when Korean film criticism declined, this independent small production created by a Korean-American team has entered this year's Oscar awards season, and the old actor Yin Ruzhen will become the most A strong contender for Best Supporting Actress. The title Minari is a Korean transliteration of water celery, the story of a Korean immigrant family who farms in the American interior in the 1980s. The setting sounds far away, but the delicate human relationship is enough to make people empathize. As small as the parents of three generations of grandparents living in the same house, as big as the cultural conflict between the East and the West, the director does not seek violent contradictions and extreme emotional expression. The American dream of Koreans has neither the blood of Korean dramas nor Hollywood. The blood of the style, everything seems sincere and natural, and the high level is shot in a small format.

Minari quotes

  • Soonja: Minari is truly the best. It grows anywhere, like weeds. So anyone can pick and eat it. Rich or poor, anyone can enjoy it and be healthy. Minari can be put in kimchi, put in stew, put in soup. It can be medicine if you are sick. Minari is wonderful, wonderful!

  • Jacob: They need to see me succeed at something for once.

    Monica: For what? Isn't it more important for them to see us together?

    Jacob: You go ahead and do what you want. Even if I fail, I have to finish what I started.