Basically, after reading it, the conclusion is that the plot is really nothing, mainly in the dialogue. At any point in time, any paragraph of dialogue can make people think for a long time. Therefore, watching this film makes me feel very intense, although there are no big ups and downs. The things they talk about are also of interest to me, such as race, politics, religion, death, etc. I like the movie "Before Sunset", which is also based on dialogue, which someone recommended me to watch. The latter discusses the details of life such as love and is more petty, while the film "Angels in America" starts from homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s, and summarizes the progress of civilization and social changes.
At that time, I kept pausing to excerpt the lines. For example, Rabbi's speech at the beginning shocked me:
"...This woman. I did not know this woman. I cannot accurately describe her attributes nor do justice to her dimensions. She was not a person, but a whole kind of a person. The ones that crossed the ocean that brought with us to America, the villages of Russia and Lithuania. And how we struggled, and how we fought, for the family, for the Jewish home.
Descendents of this immigrant woman, you do not grow up in America. You, your children, and their children with the goyish names. You do not live in America. No such place exists. Your clay is the clay of some Litvak shtetl. Your clay air is the air of the steppes because she carried that old world on her back across the ocean in a boat, and she put it down on Grand Concourse Avenue. Or on Flatbush. You can never make that crossing that she made for such great voyages in this world do not anymore exist. But every day of your lives, the miles, that voyage from that place to this one, you cross, every day.
You understand me? In you, that journey is."
Another example:
Angel now Speaking to Prophet:
"...There is no Zion save where you are. If you cannot find your heart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with." And
then there is a brilliant line that makes me laugh:
"... The white cracker who wrote the national anthem set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it." The list
goes on.
The only regret is that my English is not very good. The English of this playwright is very good, and their dialogues are very smooth, and sometimes they are difficult to understand because of the difficult words. There are subtitles that I can't understand. This film is probably the first.
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