Hurts and farewells, one grief, two rejections

Crystel 2022-04-23 07:01:57

Sunday, sky blue, eat homemade salad, watch Brooklyn.
Feelings below, feel free to express.

When I left my hometown for the first time, the transoceanic ship sounded, my sister looked up sadly and blew a kiss, and my mother turned and left before the ship left.

"Brooklyn" is as slow and peaceful as Nick Hornby's text, unfolding in waves but still surfing. The story of the heroine Eilis is about the experience of a mainstream female immigrant sparrow turned into a peacock, and the experience of nostalgia and love, but the pure blue-eyed Saoirse blew her elf breath in "The Grand Budapest Hotel" into Eilis's every step of transformation: The colors of her clothes, her hairstyle, her manners, her speech, and her firm and definite view of love.

The sunny day is good. Unexpectedly, the sister Rose, who has been hiding her illness, died suddenly. The priest led Eilis on the phone with his mother.

On the phone, my mom said after the insignificant funeral arrangements:
"When your daddy died, I said to myself I shouldn't grieve too much, because I had the two of you. Then you went to America, I told myself the same thing because she was here with me. But Eilis, everybody is gone. I have nobody."
After saying this, Mom covered the microphone with a handkerchief so her daughter couldn't hear her snorting.

After talking on the phone with her mother, Eilis, who is in love, decides to go back to Ireland just to visit her family. Before returning home, Eilis married an Italian boyfriend.

After returning to his hometown, Eilis, who was transformed by New York's magic pen, naturally became a sought-after object. The mother frowned because of her daughter's return, and then the childhood friends in the town made an appointment. The timidity of being near the village turned into a dreamlike comfort.

Fortunately, there is a cruel former employer, and the old grocery store woman uses her malice to awaken Eilis, who was re-domesticated by small-town life. Buy one of the earliest ferry tickets, write a letter of farewell apology to Gao Fushuai, and say goodbye to the mother who is not good at saying goodbye but does not force it the night before.

After leaving her hometown again, she took the morning train by herself, boarded the ship calmly, and silently taught the life experience she received to her fellow countrymen who went to the United States for the first time. Calmness is like the reassurance of the priest: Homesickness, like any sickness, it will pass. But those who empathize with it must know that this nostalgia has not dissipated, it is just pressed in the depths of my heart.

Then, on a sunny evening in Brooklyn, Eilis, dressed in fancy clothes, suddenly appeared across from the male protagonist's entrepreneurial shop, as if she was a local girl and never left.

The most touching thing is the interaction between Eilis and her sister Rose, the night talk and letter exchanges before parting, saying that she wants to come to New York to see her sister, but she knows that her time is short. There is a mother who has her own expectations and plans but does not insist on offside, loves her daughter but is not good at saying goodbye, and finally is alone. The reality is cruel and makes people cry. Don't ask why Eilis can't bring his mother back to Brooklyn, life is so helpless sometimes.

The cool head of the department store, the sister-in-law and the head lady of the residence, the new girl who resembles the live-action version of "Brave" but is foul, the vicious Irish grocer, and the loving and insightful priest are all wonderful. Irish singing (missing Damien Rice here), the nostalgic soundtrack, the green fields, the blue sea, the sound and color are all good, of course, the brightest is the heroine's eyes, clear like the dewdrops in the bright morning, sober like The breeze of the mountain fields.

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Extended Reading
  • Abe 2022-03-21 09:01:51

    Does Irish Mary Sue know the indifferent old-fashioned nostalgic love story, boring~

  • Roel 2021-12-01 08:01:26

    "I have forgotten what this small town originally looked like" When you start to miss a place, you already belong to it. A film full of emotions, the heroine has matured a lot inside and outside the movie, and the ending is simpler. I always feel that the story shouldn’t stop here, and the meaning is still unfinished... I like the Taiwanese translation of "Love in a Foreign Country." "I want to say goodbye now, only once."

Brooklyn quotes

  • Georgina: [about their ship cabin] This is hell. Never again.

    Eilis: Never again to America?

    Georgina: The mistake was coming home.

  • Mrs. Keogh: Ellis, from the look of you, you have greasy skin, is that right? What do you do about that?

    Eilis: Just... Well, I wash it, Mrs. Keogh, with soap.

    Miss McAdam: There is nothing wrong with soap. Soap was good enough for our Lord. I expect.

    Mrs. Keogh: Well, which brand did he use, Miss McAdam? Does the Bible tell you that?

    Diana: Our Lord is a man anyway. He didn't care about greasy skin.

    Mrs. Keogh: Ladies, no more talk about our Lord's complexion at dinner, please.