Straight drove the lawnmower on the long road to visit family, like Harold wearing sailing shoes across England. It's just that Mr. Straight lives a lot better than Harold. He kept moving forward, answering questions to different people along the way. What impressed me was that a few cyclists gathered around the bonfire and asked the old man, what is the most frustrating thing for a person to get old? The old man replied that he could clearly remember that he was young and strong.
I watched this movie with Sissy Spacek, who was chasing Carrie the Witch. When I saw that the director was David Lynch in the opening subtitles, I was still worried that I would not understand it. I never thought that a director who has always pursued avant-garde and weird could make such a simple and simple film. Perhaps as the first commentary said, "The most authentic aspect of a director in real life is probably hidden in his most atypical works. "
The whole film starts with a starry sky and ends with a starry sky. It is indeed a very happy thing to be able to look up at the starry sky with the people you love. George Wells also said that "there is an infinite sense of peace and security in the glittering stars". No matter what role we play in our daily lives, in the moment we look up at the stars, we are the same, one, and detached.
The film has a lot of passages that don't seem to contribute to the plot. The old man is driving the lawn mower slowly on the empty and quiet western highway, or the old man's face is close-up, or the panoramic aerial photography, there is a lawn mower as small as an ant on the road between the endless corn fields . Accompanied by soothing and melodious country music, the gaps between these plots leave enough time for everyone to think about it. The process of watching the movie is like completing this journey of family and spiritual healing with the old man.
Actor Richard Farnsworth, who played Straight, was seen on IMDB when he was filming the film and had bone cancer. The year after filming ended, he committed suicide because of the unbearable pain.
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