"Brooklyn" is about the double life of a young woman. If we simply understand one kind of life as a happy life in the new world. Then we won't be able to see that misfortune and the beautiful personality beneath it. In fact, America is also an unfortunate second home. The Chinese female college student who ran away that year, who was made into a statue, also wrote a letter many years later to report the fact that Pastor Yuan Zhiming raped her. I believe this is true, because women have no hometown, women are the metaphor of hometown, and hometown is used to swear sovereignty and make contracts effective. It also explains why the Irish priest told Eilis that we need more Irish girls to come to New York. Eilis was forced to leave his hometown due to such a need. This metaphor of women and hometown once disgusted me so much that for a long time after I started using dating software, I couldn't accept any Chinese boy who sent a message and asked, "Chinese?" It's Chinese, which is like an endorsement for him to be more confident in front of me. In fact, if you have a good impression of a person, shouldn't the first thing you lose is the kind of confidence in yourself, in other words, confidence? Because I am a native of your hometown, you feel that the victory is in your hands. Don't you want to fight on horseback and become a bandit in your hometown, rise up and take over the mountains as kings? I'm sorry, you can't be a warlord with me, and you don't have the priority of being the ruling party. I am not a metaphor for the administrative sovereignty of your hometown. If I want to do it, I will be the Red River Valley. Because of this kind of thinking, I don't think Eilis' American dream is the "Golden American Dream" like many others. She is a comforting little flower in the wave of immigration and the embellishment of other people's dreams. She did not humiliate her mission and comforted many people, including Irish refugees and shy young Italians. When the young man was cowardly, she gave him a chance; when he lost his confidence, she gave him great comfort (marriage) with a very serious commitment. On any level, she is a saint, pure and loving.
Women have no homeland, Virginia Woolf has long said. But does she want to have a hometown? Eilis' need, if it wasn't for the squire's son, she probably would have ignored it herself. We also need a pure and tenacious hometown boy as a metaphor for our hometown in our hearts. Since this imagination is too limited, I can't describe that picture for a while. Maybe closer to the kind of "brotherhood" I used to refer to: the caring greeting of a mandarin-speaking boy when you're hooking up with a late-night hangover in an exotic country; maybe a little deeper, like Colonel Brandon, always waiting to help you Clean up the mood after the robbery. Don't protect us from plunder, from aggression, like brothers, give us some spiritual comfort. This is also where the movie doesn't do it well. The mood of Ireland is not strong enough to match its spirits. After all, the son of the squire's son is not Jia Zhangke. He doesn't know how to share a big white rabbit toffee with his beloved girl in his homeland of mountains and rivers. I don't know how to dance one last dance in front of the newly built dam. In the end, it is a bit far-fetched to have to rely on a vicious old woman to force the heroine back to New York.
After watching this movie, I feel a little bit about the man from my hometown. We should be like the context of the same article. After reading it, we know that the mountains and rivers are thousands of miles away, and we will always echo some of the chapters and sentences that seem familiar to us.
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