You will never go back

Brody 2021-12-01 08:01:26

Brooklyn is a film that easily resonates. The reason is that more and more people are leaving their hometowns to study, work, and settle down. Among them, many young people waved at the airport with their parents who had lived with them for many years, and they arrived in a strange country thousands of miles away from home.

I am one of them.

When the hostess first came to New York, the woman in red on the boat told her that at first, you would feel that there would be a long, long interval between family letters, but then you no longer feel that way. Thanks to the advancement of science and technology, now there are a series of high-tech tools such as WeChat, which allow me to communicate with my family and friends quickly and conveniently, but I believe that the sense of loneliness has not changed at all. In the beginning, every moment of being alone needs to be digested by myself, even though I have always determined that I am an independent person, but now I turn to what I wrote when I first came to the United States, every word in it is screaming: resist loneliness! You need to rely on shouts and reminders to carry the past time, how can it not be lonely?
The female protagonist who just started to work was not satisfactory at work. I believe that the winter in New York at that time was colder than the cold of loneliness. When I received the first letter from the family, she cried, and I felt a little bit cried. For her at that time, a letter from the family was like the only lifeboat in the bitterly cold sea, and the flames in the dark were like smelling the familiar scent of mother in a certain place one day. When you come back to your senses, nothing has changed, strange or unfamiliar, everything is unknown, after the excitement, the yearning for the familiar life will suddenly swallow you.

Seeing the heroine's earnest efforts in class at night school, she can still see herself. Feeling that the opportunity to study in the United States is hard-won, I have repeatedly warned myself not to waste time, try different types of courses, and get in touch with new things, for fear that I will be too idle to let down the good time. Even the weekends have to be filled, and staying at home for a long time feels like a waste of time.

At the end of the film, when the heroine faces the decision of whether to stay in her hometown or return to New York, I repeatedly reminded her (and broken her heart) that everything in her hometown now is to thank you for your experience in the United States. Without this experience, even if time goes back, none of this will happen. Just like the original post, when talking about the changes brought about by studying abroad, I remember one sentence very clearly, that is, no matter what studying abroad brings you, you will never go back.

Yes, there is no if. Not just studying abroad, all experiences will never let you go back to the past. It is all experiences that shape who you are now. In any case, don't forget why you want to leave.

The hostess was very lucky and met someone who liked each other. Then inevitably, I also thought of a person. It’s a pity that we are not together, and I’m very happy that I don’t think of you as often as I did at the beginning, so that I don’t have to bother my friends and save tears and sadness. But I still want to thank you. I think I liked you so much. One of the reasons is that you light up my loneliest moment. Because of you, all the lonely and hard times have become cute. Because of you, I have a lot of happiness in my ordinary life.

I hope that all those who work hard for their dreams are happy, and they deserve this happiness.

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Extended Reading
  • Pierce 2021-12-01 08:01:26

    Brooklyn is really good in the first half, it’s almost going to be the favorite of the year, but it’s a pity that the second half has fallen a lot...

  • Marley 2022-03-30 09:01:04

    uninteresting. Everything was flat, nothing new. Ronan's acting skills are ok, but he doesn't touch people's hearts, and he is a little bit worse than the Olympic award-winning actress. [After watching Brie Larson's performance in , I can be sure that Ronan is going to play soy sauce at the Oscars

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.