The male protagonist does not agree with his former Hungarian identity at all, and even resists. When he arrived in the United States, he changed his Americanized name, wilkie, "don't speak Hungarian to me", "you have to speak English all these days", his best friend, the second boy, didn't know that he was from Hungary until eva came. “im as American as you are.” The second male wanted to chat with him about Budapest, so he directly told the second male to shut up. He also once bought a skirt for the heroine to let her "do as the locals do". Later, when he met his grandmother, the two people who had not seen him for more than ten years communicated more cordially in Hungarian, but he still insisted on using English, even though his grandmother had been using Hungarian. Although there is also an explanation that he wants to include the second male male into the dialogue, but the grandmother feels that the English is very general and has a serious accent, and the fluent English dialogue between the three is delusional. So I think the male protagonist is resisting his Hungarian origin. Anyone who has experienced awkward conversations where you insist on speaking one language and the other insists on speaking another language should all understand the importance of a unified language in communication.
The heroine is on the contrary, always stick to herself, living in someone else's house, there is no such thing as "seeing people's faces and doing things under the fence", really mi casa tu casa although the male protagonist completely means the opposite? She doesn't like the skirt and says she doesn't like it face to face, after leaving throw away.
This is the first time I saw this director's film, simple dialogue, no color, slow switching between shots, and not many things to tell through the shots, basically all the plots are driven by dialogue. Thinking of Henry Green's requirements for dialogue in novels: the novel should not explain the dialogue of the characters in the text for the reader, leaving the vagueness and ambiguousness to be reserved for the reader to guess; the best dialogue is in the form of drama.
The heroine's character is like the heroine of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
The story itself is extremely simple. I don't understand the meaning of stranger than paradise
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