Minari is the Korean transliteration of "water celery". Water celery may be a vegetable unique to East Asia. It has a soft and tender taste. It is more popular than medicinal celery and celery in my hometown. In the film, the grandmother came to Arkansas from South Korea and brought this exotic plant to be planted by the river. The symbolic meaning of "immigrants taking root in a foreign country" is very obvious. When the Chinese come to watch this movie, they feel more empathy than the movie that is not allowed to be mentioned. Not only because this is about the struggle of the protagonist as a first-generation immigrant, but also because the oriental family view described in the film is so familiar that people can unconsciously feel a sense of substitution. In other words, the film is not just about Koreans who immigrated to America, but all East Asians who immigrated to Western countries. For example, when an immigrant couple quarreled for the first time, the wife complained that the husband used all the money he earned to help his relatives, saying that the money should have been spent on the children. How was this quarrel resolved? The two discussed and decided to bring their grandmother to the United States to live together. If it is an American who goes straight, it must not be understood. This is obviously a question of whether to send money back to South Korea. What does it have to do with grandma coming? They do not understand that this is the family network of our East Asians. There are various intricate intersections between the next generation and the next generation. Although they have established their own family through marriage, they are still responsible for the original family before marriage. We often say that "there are old people at the top, and there are young people at the bottom" because of the embarrassment of being at the intersection. Therefore, when the husband gives money to his parents, the wife will naturally feel that the other end of the intersection has been ignored. "I didn't spend the money on the children" is just a rhetoric. Until she brought her wife's mother to take care of her, she felt "a bowl of water is level", and it was not a problem whether the money was spent on the children. What is special about the “embarrassing intersection” of a generation of immigrants is that it is inevitably squeezed by two cultures. Grandma brought all kinds of souvenirs from Korea, and the daughter who is nostalgic will be grateful. But the grandson hated the precious deer antler soup that he was forced to drink. What the previous generation regarded as a treasure, the next generation discards it. As a middle generation, it is a question whether to be infatuated or favored. Water celery can grow tough anywhere, but it can also be acclimatized. The dogma and experience of the East moved to the West will be flatly rejected by humanity and reason at any time. If it is not handled properly, extreme examples such as "Gua Sha" will occur. Also, in the traditional oriental relationship between husband and wife, the man is responsible for making money and supporting the family, and the woman is responsible for looking beautiful. It is a shameful thing for a man to have no career. In fact, the hero and heroine were originally The state is a chicken sex appraiser, and the income is not bad. But my husband still insisted on moving to Arkansas to become a farmer. In the final analysis, he still felt that it was a shame to live with genitals for the rest of his life, and it was useless. The son asked his father: Why are chicks that are identified as males discarded? Dad replied: Because the rooster can't lay eggs, and the meat is not tasty, it is discarded because it is useless. He also meaningfully said to his son: Remember to be a useful person. "Useful" is the life creed of a jungle society - if you don't stand out, you will be ruthlessly eliminated. So he would rather be separated from his wife and son, but also take the farmer to the end. He even naively thought that as long as his career was successful, other problems in the family could be solved. So when he set up a client in the city, he still thought that his wife would change her mind. Why did the heroine dare to break up with him at first? Because her chick sex identification skills are becoming more and more proficient, she is confident that she can live without a man. This is actually a kind of awakening of the individual consciousness of eastern women in western society. There is a scene in the film where the son spends the night at his white best friend's house, and the next morning his best friend's father greets him and says a few words. What happened to this white family, the film actually understates it and doesn’t explain much, but there are some interesting issues that can be found – the parents are not at home at night, the father comes back in the morning and prepares breakfast for the child, his face seems to be a little swollen, and he asks the son not to tell Mom is out for the night by herself. What is this indicating? This shows that the relationship between Western-style family members is very loose, it seems that they are separate, and the husband and wife may conceal their whereabouts from each other. This is unimaginable in an oriental family where everyone has to represent the family. The heroine is a Christian, and may often come into contact with Western-style families in the church, and what she has seen and heard may also subvert her original family view. In my opinion, this film is about the struggle of new immigrants to make a living in a foreign land, but more importantly, it is the impact of the oriental family concept in the new environment. So here I want to draw an arbitrary conclusion: couples from East Asian countries who immigrate to Western countries are much more likely to have problems in their marriages than they do at home. On the one hand, they are separated from the network of their original family relatives, and they are less likely to be bound by secular weathering; on the other hand, the awakening of their individual consciousness makes it easier for them to have the urge to pursue freedom. Traditional social relationships such as family, clan, and clan are a kind of mutual aid organization. Due to the small strength of individuals, it is necessary to form a collective through the connection of blood to fight against natural and man-made disasters. But modern society and individuals have slowly evolved into contractual relationships, especially in developed Western countries, More and more people can survive without blood relatives, and more and more people choose to be single or DINK, and "organization" has become a dispensable existence. The reason why the family can come together again at the end of the film is because the sudden disaster reminds them of the necessity of "organization", so that they can temporarily put aside differences, ignore rifts, and overcome difficulties together. However, in a society with more and more abundant living resources, the possibility of this kind of organizational form that "can share weal and woe but cannot share wealth and honor" will only increase. Celebrities broke up and divorced every three to five years, but it's actually the same reason.
I can live well without you, why should I endure your violation of my borders all the time?
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