It turned out to be Lynch...

Erling 2021-12-13 08:01:06

The movie is about a 73-year-old old man, Mr. Stritt, who is dependent on his only daughter who is close at hand. One day, the daughter told the old man that his brother had a stroke and fell ill. The bad news evoked him and his brother. A memory of that year, more than ten years ago, after a "quarrel, anger. Alcohol", he parted ways with his elder brother. They have never been in contact with each other. At this time, the elder brother was suddenly critically ill, as well as his own body. In the light of the candlelight, Streit made a decision that surprised everyone: He was going to drive a shovel across a continent to visit his brother for the last time, but the last of his life A wish...

When watching this movie, the room was silently overflowing with no sound. The stunning scenery of the land that followed in the movie, everything in front of me, seemed to be projected on the lime wall behind the computer, constantly appearing again and again. Hidden away, the vast fields, the shining stars, every scene of Mr. Stritt is immersed in his mind, and a warm spring flows out. It is admirable courage and touching brotherhood. I can’t go away for a long time. While watching the movie in silence, I always think of my brother. Both of us are just like the Stritt brothers. They are even worse. My brother and I have not been together since we were young, two years older than him. When I was young, I often quarreled, quarreled, and even fought hard because of small things. At this time, I always hated and wanted to go back in time. I retracted into my mother’s belly and never reappeared.. Later, I found that this idea was too absurd, and I had to accept the reality that my brother was still alive and well. He still went his own way, constantly causing trouble for the whole family, and repeated the mistakes Bibi, which is not uncommon. All of them, it can be called grief and indignation...Whenever I talk to him, I always talk less than three, and I start arguing with each other. Although I don't move my hands and feet, my heart is really depressed, and I finally have to end up slamming the door. But this is such a brother. In any case, he is still my brother, as the old man said: No matter how ignorant the younger brother is, he will always be your own brother. If you can't change, you can only tolerate it.. I agree very much. The words of the old man, for many years, I have been convinced since I was a child, that in this world, only family affection is the only one who is always full of love, sincere and eternal. And only everyone in my house is the only one in this world who will not abandon My own people, I have watched a lot of family-friendly movies, but no one depicts the family relationship between brothers as bright, fresh, and moving as in this .


The movie is adapted from real people and real events. In fact, I can't verify the fate of this old man and brother afterwards, whether it is a lifetime without regrets, or is still passing away, but it is not important. A person can write the last thing in life. Huizhang, he needs perseverance and a courageous attitude to life. The old man Strutt glows with such moving power. Although the plain cause is just to meet his brother, but a grass shovel, three The distance of a hundred miles, the speed of a car almost on foot, the journey of two months, the seventy-three-year-old man, these difficulties are piled together, it is simply an insurmountable obstacle, but the old man is relying on his own perseverance. , Perseverance is completed. At the end of the film, Sturt and his brother are sitting on both sides of the courtyard gate, looking at each other speechlessly, but each breath moistens their eyes, everything is full of unspoken feelings and happiness.

If you follow You said that the director of this "Mr. Strutt's Story" is the work of David Lynch who has filmed "Rubber Head", "Blue Velvet", and "Demonstration", I am afraid it is very difficult to accept , David Lynch’s previous works are basically very obscure, one hundred and a thousand dark, decadent, even if all the bright shots of these movies add up, it is not half as much as in this "Mr. Streit Story" Many, according to legend, when Lynch first heard the idea of ​​the movie, he threw it away very easily, but after reading the script, he began to feel surprisingly good about the story, so he started shooting this film again, with the opposite. His fresh and timeless style is an excellent interpretation of this warm and affectionate movie.


I think David Lynch is not a warm director. Of course, it turns out that he has never been. His historical works are hard to believe that such a film comes from his director, just like Zhang Yimou from the yellow earth. Changing the filming of Baihuahuahuanzi is as difficult to explain, but the facts do exist. Zhang Yimou once again molested the people of the country (including the people of the world?) with his tits, and David Lynch also moved us fiercely. "Mr. Streit's Story" is a quiet movie. It is plain and simple, but it contains deep feelings. It is fresh and warm, but it is also sentimental and sad. This is not just a flesh and blood. Realistic stories of family affection. There are still many stories on the journey of the old man to visit his younger brother without fear of hardship. At first glance, the actions of the old man are just a smile, and the old man is almost stubborn. Admire, but with the journey of the old man, I also began to gradually understand the love for life and the meaning of life hidden in the old man. He used his precious experience in his life to teach conflicting girls and quarreling brothers. Tell them that the most precious thing in this life is family affection. He gave up kind help and chose to complete this difficult journey alone. He shared with others the pain that he dared not touch in the depths of his heart, and proved that there is no pain. It can torture a person's life all the time.. Shoveling grass slowly on the empty highway, Mr. Strutt’s journey is plain and unsurprising, but it is also a kind, passionate road, a true story Perhaps it will not be as coincidental as in the movie, so kind, removing the artificial elements, these arrangements are only a small tidbit on the ordinary life path, and it is a kind of skill that reflects the character of Mr. Strutt. Ran choreography. What touched me in the movie is not only the rare persistence of belief in the old man, but also his indifferent attitude towards life. Entering the world of Strutt, this is just an ordinary old man. He has memories of his children who can't bear to look back, he has the painful past that is entangled, and there are brothers and misunderstandings that cannot be knotted in his heart, but it is just such an ordinary white-haired old man. , His face was covered with vicissitudes of chaos, and he had accomplished things that others could not imagine in disbelief.Strait ignored the ridicule and disdain of others, and gave up kind help.He just wanted to do it alone and drive quietly. The car that meets white and green is driving on the country road where you find family affection, pursuing your own life happiness. It is also giving life experience to help others. No one has a completely happy life, and no one can have a lifetime of luck ,The perseverance and courageous personality and generous dedication of Mr. Stritt are the most unforgettable dogmas in life.


It is understandable that David Lynch was very successful in reproducing Mr. Stritt’s story on the screen. It unsparingly turned the road film that should have been rough (refer to Wenders series film N...) into it. A warm and exquisite image, the film reproduces the plain and simple life with beautiful scenery, and touches everyone who watches this movie with their heart. Sitting at the table and watching the image, the life told in detail. In this movie, the scenery is the other protagonist. During the day, the sun is overflowing, and it blooms brilliantly in the vast mountains. The golden and vivid green of the western atmosphere tells every picture. A large number of wide-angle perspectives look like that. The beauty of the old man driving a tortoise-climbing grass shovel, quietly moving forward in a wide field, as if a lost but lonely and hopeful oil painting, the oil painting-like scenes in the movie, in his mind There is always the old man with white hair and beard sitting on the grass scraper where the tortoise is crawling, driving on the straight and endless road, stepping through the warm sunshine and wading through the starry night sky. The warm spring of the human heart is injected into the irritable real life. I close the computer and see my brother sleeping in the living room. I am a lovely brother who still adheres to his own life attitude. Well, depravity, this one who cannot be changed is the younger brother after all, and the younger brother who still has a simple smile in sleep, a child who is still kind but not good at expressing, a good man who is still brave but not good at using, I suddenly I suddenly thought, if one day, my brother and I are both old, will we be sitting in the courtyard in front of the door looking at the stars in the courtyard like the brothers in the movie, and will not want to say anything, happy and satisfied. How about savoring this life? It should be.. Definitely...because after David Lynch’s wonderful trick, I can be more convinced that there is nothing in this world, it can be more precious than family love... .

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  • Alvin Straight: I haven't had a drink in a lotta years, but now I'm gonna have me a cold beer.

  • Alvin Straight: I want to thank you for your kindness to a stranger.

    Danny Riordan, Clermont Resident: It's been a genuine pleasure having you here, Alvin. Write to us some time.

    Alvin Straight: I will.