Go to Google and find that this really happened, and also found that the starring old man shot himself at the age of 80, the same way Hemingway died.
You have to admire such an old man who hits the road with a humble smile, two crutches, and an incomprehensible stubbornness. Yet he did, creating his own legend.
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Okay, talk about gossip outside of the plot.
This story really happened. The old man's name was Alvin Straight. He drove a lawnmower by himself and spent more than a month to see the stroked brother.
The starring old man is really well-chosen, Richard Farnsworth, who was born in the United States after World War II. The seven-year-old father died, and the family was very poor. So my buddy became a stuntman, basically riding a horse. Westerns of that era also had action plots, and this uncle has starred in many Westerns. Until he was very old, he was anonymous. Looking at the folds on his face, he knew that life was hard.
Later, when I got older, I became famous. I got prostate cancer in my 70s, and later the cancer cells metastasized and turned into bone cancer. Most of the hardships of using crutches in filming this movie are real, because at that time he was receiving bone cancer treatment and filming at the same time. He committed suicide at the age of eighty.
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Men of that era in the United States, who participated in World War II and lay in the trenches of Europe, always revealed a temperament of forbearance. Just like in the movie, Straight and the white-haired old man are sitting in a bar, drinking and recalling what happened during the war. Even though they are all over sixty years old, the scars are still there. They have strong personalities and suffer and endure. Regardless of the reality, they have enough faith to go their way.
The old guy is not a hardcore, they value friendship: never let the neighbor call an ambulance when he sees the old guy on the ground, because he knows his old buddy can't take such a loss. He is modest and courteous: he only camps outside, politely but firmly declines invitations to enter the house to rest, and pays the phone bill after making calls. He has the wisdom of the world: use every penny of retirement dollars rationally, never be soft when it comes to bargaining, but also leave room for others and pay attention to fairness. He faces everyone passing by with a slightly shy smile, and uses his warm humanity to bring a ray of light to the passersby who meet by chance.
The power of human nature contained in this film is less than two or three that can be described in words, but it is all in my heart.
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