Dreamland

Bryon 2021-12-31 08:02:20

America, what are you like?
Is it the dark and dirty hell in the mouth of others, or the heaven in the lens of DreamWorks?
Why do people hate you and curse you, but they still rush to you like a tide? They told me that you have green hills and valleys, blue sky and white clouds, and drunken gold fans, decay and depravity, saints and demons.

The people around have left one by one, and they have all gone to the United States and never come back.
What kind of place is that? There are so many books about you, which one is true, your images are all over the world, which one is your real face, is it Madonna’s America, or the Superman’s America.


An Irish farmer came to the United States in order to escape the oppression of the landlord. He wanted nothing more than a piece of land of his own, a beloved woman, who earns money by working for food, even though he grew up like a Roman boy like Tom Cruise. Face, even though he is in love with a Valkyrie blonde beauty like Nicole Kidman, what is the bigger difference between them and ordinary people all over the world?
We Chinese farmers say that wives, children, and hot kangs are the dreams of ordinary people all over the world—homeland.
Staying away from your homeland is because you no longer want to endure poverty and hunger, in order not to endure tyranny and cruelty, in order to restore the minimum dignity of a person, in order to pursue human happiness and beauty.
Only people who have lived under autocratic tyranny understand the true meaning of freedom. If your hard work, wisdom, dedication, and kindness are only deceived, squeezed, and destroyed, if you refuse to sink and fall, you will only be marginalized and trampled. If---your only wish---reliance on your own labor to eat can not be guaranteed, but recklessly driven away like livestock, what choice do you have besides leaving your hometown!
Green fields, wide grasslands, and rivers flowing quietly, where people can live and work like people. Isn't this a dream place for everyone in the world?

Maybe there is sin and darkness there too, maybe the ugliest thing in the world is there, but I think there is not heaven after all. Someone must be guilty, but most of the people there must be good, otherwise I really don’t understand. Why do people all over the world, good people and bad people, desperately want to be a member there. Could it be that all the people in the world go to hell to find death? Those who scold it most often are its residents or send their children there while cursing.
When Tom rode his horse on the western prairie, fighting for his own piece of land for himself and for his beloved girl, I suddenly understood the answer.
That's not what "On American Democracy" and many sweaty books can tell me this ordinary person, just like Mel Gibson can tell me the meaning of American independence and American heroism, that is--- -Strive for the pursuit of the most basic human rights.
And there is the right to give you this kind of equal pursuit.
Of course, the people who go there are not to be president, but they may want to be Carnegie, at least to give you a chance to realize your dream. They have food, a house to live, and they can live on their own labor. Maybe they can live well, at least better than their hometown. Or why don't they come back, they are stupid?

There is no anti-theft net and friendly to strangers-walking on the streets of Dallas was taken aback because passers-by greeted her. The air is fresh, no one spits anywhere, no matter how good your clothes are, no one will look at them. Just eating poorly, don't let you speak loudly, don't let your quilt be exposed, and it's really uncomfortable if you don't speak English or drive. I heard what my aunt said.

Incidentally, at that time Tom Hou still had a little cute shyness, and Nicol also had the Australian earthy taste, a very warm couple. It is a pity that the eyes in there are only the newlyweds. It's an eternal record of a love legend. To say that the film itself is fair, fair.

America, what are you like?

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Far and Away quotes

  • Joseph Donnelly: You're not in Ireland any more! You arrogant bastard!

  • [about Grace]

    Shannon Christie: She's got an awfully large chest to be goin' to church.

    Joseph Donnelly: Shannon, all chests are equal in the eyes of the Lord.