Some words from the front: This film review is destined to be a bad film review, because if I didn't happen to live in Columbus, I might be reluctant to spend $6 to see a small town sightseeing film with a dull plot. But since it's a story set around you, you can't help but want to see what's going on, and then project your own life into it. Please forgive me.
Mentioning Columbus is sometimes mistaken for Columbus, the capital of Ohio next door, while the film depicts Columbus, a small town in southern Indiana. I often compare the small town of Columbus with Daqing in the northeast. A city prospered entirely because of one industry. When this industry was on the rise, the entire city also flourished. Eight hours away, it has its own cultural palace, children's park and The workers' club...As the industry that depends on it goes to loneliness, the small town gradually becomes silent, and some even disappear from the map. Columbus has gone through a high-spirited ascension period and entered a stable period of people reaching middle age. People living here live peacefully. This small town in the middle of the city, famous for its production of engines, has nothing to do with architectural aesthetics. But maybe it was because the people in the small town had no spiritual home, or it was because the young rich second-generation president of the engine factory returned from his studies in Europe and needed to build a higher self. The seniors just built the entire Columbus into a A laboratory for architectural aesthetics. But how much do people who work and live here perceive the cultural atmosphere that the town has been strongly boosted up? In the film, the male protagonist Jin commented: "grow up around something, feel like nothing". So after the passion burns, what is the broken thing about feelings? To escape or to stay, the poem is still stubborn, the tone of the film is set here.
Jin and Casey, the hero and heroine of the story, did not develop love between men and women in the play, or rather quickly transcended this narrow category and entered a spiritual fit. Although the two came from completely different classes, they had to choose to stay in the town temporarily for practical reasons. Jin's image represents a new generation of Asian immigrants who, while receiving an extremely strict elite education in the social resources accumulated by their parents, are also suffering from the pain caused by the alienation of their parent-child relationship. What I admired in the film is not to use a lot of flashbacks to tell the story, but to explain the background of the characters implicitly and clearly through the expressions of the characters in the normal sequence of the flow of time. Jin's complex feelings for his father are hard to describe with hatred. There is hatred, but it is more like the complex hatred of a little girl for her ex-boyfriend, which is mixed with too much grievances that are not taken seriously and the pleasure of revenge that "you have today", of course, there are also deeply covered up sad. Despite his efforts to appear calm and composed, Jin's heart was always stuck in that unsatisfied childhood, so when he was told that his father's condition was unstable and he needed to stay in the town to wait, Jin said to himself in a fit of anger" why do I have to slow down, while you never waited for me?" The encounter with Casey comes after Jin ends a fractious phone call. Casey represents the bottom-class white family in the United States and is a native of the small town of Columbus. In the face of this rapidly developing era and the influx of a large number of new talents, they are overwhelmed and left behind. Broken family and limited social resources make it difficult for young Casey to make a difference even if he wants to make a difference. So in the boring life of the library day after day, I paralyzed myself and said, this is good. The encounter between the two led them to talk about their own lives, stretching between the different Columbus-style buildings. The conversation brought thinking and changes. After the final struggle, the two chose to reverse their lives.
It can be said that such a movie, the background can be set in any small town, who doesn't have a story? But since I chose Columbus, it can be said that the temperament of the small town has been excavated to the fullest. A faint sadness like nostalgia makes me, a sojourn traveler, unable to hold back tears.
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