Mac (played by Robert Duvall, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor that year for this film) is a down-and-out country singer whose ups and downs of fate have completely destroyed him, and living is a cruel torture for him. Until he met the woman who ran a hotel alone with her child in Texas.
The film tells a story that unites cruelty and tenderness in perfect harmony. I fell into a deep, helpless sadness at one point during the viewing, and then after the film ended, I felt surrounded by a gentle and powerful force.
If a good story is a parable of life, Tender Mercy tells a story with such a profound and wonderful parable of life. The richer your life experience, the more you will identify with this movie from the bottom of your heart.
It is true that the film shows that the nature of our lives is impermanent and cruel, however, the pursuit of goodness and happiness will never stop.
It is the cruelty of life that gives us the strength to move forward.
I really liked a netizen's after-view, and I borrowed it to end it - "In that kind of sunshine and land, at the moment when the scarecrow holding a branch diagonally was blown up by the wind, God's gentle mercy was over. Come quietly."
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