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Demarco 2022-03-23 09:02:28

This movie made me fall in love with Ivan, and salmon. The top Ivan movie I watched was a shadow writer, and I liked it very much. There is a feeling that the next Ivan film will still like it.
Like this movie, what do you like about it? The name, and this thing -- salmon fishing in Yemen -- sounds like a misson impossible, doesn't it? The picture is beautiful, which is also a reason. There is also the occasional light humor and political banter. What else?
Maybe it's because this film implicitly implies something: upstream. When I saw Jones turned back and shuttled through the crowd to meet Harriet, who was sad because of the loss of her boyfriend, he should have fallen in love with Harriet. When I saw the artificially farmed salmon swimming in the water, I didn't forget the instinctive migration, yes, upstream. And what supports this upstream is faith, and faith in faith, faith in love.
When Mary discovered Jones's affection for Harriet, Mary said to Jones who ran to the fish pond to feed the fish: "In six months you will beg me to let you back, It's in your DNA." Playing back this sentence, the picture appeared It's migrating salmon, and the movie takes a turn. Jones looks weak (he got into Mary's umbrella without hesitation, and Mary went to Geneva without discussing with Jones, which shows both Mary's ego and Jones' weakness or accommodating), and claimed that he didn't Faith, but this is only a surface, not a fact. The chief pointed this out sharply: without faith, would you wait ten hours just to catch a salmon? ! Or Jones was weak at first until his inner faith was awakened. At first Jones' attitude of insisting that fishing for salmon in Yemen was impossible also changed, "They'll run, I know it". "I'm absolutely sure of it." "I just know it." When the chief said "Faith, Dr. .Alfred." Jones smiled and said "Damn it. Yes, all right, then, faith."
However, when everything seems to be going smoothly, the Yemen salmon project is going smoothly, and the relationship between Jones and Harriet is almost complete, and the turning point has come again. Harriet's boyfriend who ran to the battlefield escaped and returned to her. The Yemen salmon project was in a mess when the vandals opened the floodgates. Jones lost everything, the relationship he was about to start, and the salmon project where he put a lot of energy into, and the little flame of faith that had just been ignited was almost extinguished. Now, it's salmon again! The movie climaxes when a salmon leaps out of the remaining water. Feelings and projects both return.
The image of the salmon jumping up is really exciting, the awakening of faith is really exciting.

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen quotes

  • Dr. Alfred Jones: Did you get my email?

    Bernard Sugden: Yes. What did it say?

    Dr. Alfred Jones: Took the meeting. Waste of time as predicted. Now if you don't mind I'll get back to my work.

    Bernard Sugden: Dr. Jones.

    [holds up a document which Dr. Jones takes]

    Dr. Alfred Jones: What is this?

    Bernard Sugden: P45.

    Dr. Alfred Jones: I'm sorry. I don't, I don't understand.

    Bernard Sugden: Oh, well, a P45 is the official document given to an employee when his services are no longer required by his or her employer.

    Dr. Alfred Jones: Yes, but Bernard, this has got my...

    Bernard Sugden: Or, you can sign this letter stating that you are delighted to assign yourself exclusively to the Yemeni salmon fishing project with immediate effect. Up to you.

    Dr. Alfred Jones: But Bernard, you know as well as I do this thing is a bloody joke. Where the hell you gonna get salmon that far...

    Bernard Sugden: [interrupts and taps the P45] Just there.

    Dr. Alfred Jones: This is blackmail Sugden. This is a bloody outrage.

    Bernard Sugden: Fitzharris & Price will be paying your salary while on secondment. Almost double what it is now. I'd say that's a bloody outrage.

    Dr. Alfred Jones: Double. Can I have time to think about this?

    Bernard Sugden: Nope.

    Dr. Alfred Jones: Can I borrow your pen?

    Bernard Sugden: Yah. It's my special one with the italic nib.

    [Dr. Jones grabs it, scribbles his signature on the P45 and storms out]

  • Tom Price-Williams: Have you any idea what an outcry there'd be if the Environment Agency stripped British rivers of *ten thousand* salmon and shipped them off to the effing Yemen?

    Bernard Sugden: Well how many can you spare?

    Tom Price-Williams: None! Christ! Bernard. Anglers, they're obsessive crazies. You think Al-Qaeda are a threat, think again mate! I've seen a fly fisherman wade into a river and try and drown a canoeist just for passing by in a Day-Glo jacket. You haven't got a hope in hell of getting these fish from British rivers.