Korean American Dream-Song of Water Celery

Janiya 2021-12-25 08:01:15

This is a story about the American dream of Koreans. It uses Minari (water celery) as a metaphor to extol Koreans like water celery, which has vigorous vitality in any country.

However, when Jacob made up his mind to grow vegetables to sell to Koreans, he was essentially no different from the Chinese who went to the United States and lived only in Chinatown. On the road to realize the American dream, it is not only the Koreans who are struggling, but the Chinese may be even more difficult (the elite Chinese in China, but the poor in the United States), even the Americans in the motherland are not easy.

The child's grandmother is actually a very interesting setting. First of all, it has a lot of bad roots, playing tricks and swearing, and will not be good, it seems that there is no daughter and son-in-law fighting. But my grandma brought home food, hometown seeds, and money to subsidize their families. Grandma is a glue that their home that is about to be broken is badly needed, although the effect is limited. David said many times that grandma shouldn't come to the United States. This little complaint seems to have spoken out the dilemma of the whole family in his mouth. It turned out that the couple who wanted to come to the United States to solve the existential crisis and emotional crisis did not improve due to the change in geographic location.

Except for Grandma and David, everyone else didn't play that well. Steven Yuan's performance is quite satisfactory. This is his second house burning movie. I don't know if he will have the chance to make a house burning trilogy when he comes back.

Even if the performance is not perfect and the rhythm is very general, it still does not delay the director from portraying every major role in place.

For example, a dad who is ambitious but always unsuccessful, and a mother who wants to change but feels powerless and insecure, is not like a grandma but can’t do so with grandchildren who wants to help the grandma at home, and of course there are also mischievous ones that worry the audience. David who lost his heartbeat at any time.

The frustration of the whole story is very in place, and it also earned a lot of sympathy points for the film. The storytelling is much more interesting than "The First Cow".

It may be difficult to integrate into a country, but we can grow in our own way. In this country, no matter how high or low it is, they have the right to dream of the American dream. This is probably another meaning of water celery.

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  • Garry 2022-04-24 07:01:15

    And nomadland is nothing at all. The Korean-Chinese war is entirely a war of east and west. Compared to the former, which focuses on the environment, I obviously prefer the latter, which is a more family-oriented oriental story, and has gained more empathy. The mature things of the Korean film industry can be seen everywhere. Delicately said To be honest for me it's a deduction for academic burning..?

  • Pete 2022-03-25 09:01:12

    I feel that Steven's acting method is not very suitable for family films. It doesn't look like people who live with children (maybe that's the way the plot characters are set up, but the two actors are not bad, especially Han Yili is a little Korean immigrant. Grandma is the finishing touch. A few scenes were very good. Sure enough, the old show bones felt that the fire was a bit big, and the meaning of starting over from scratch was very American hhhh In addition, Korean + English sounded quite comfortable!

Minari quotes

  • Soonja: You're crying again? Because of anchovies?

  • Soonja: Penis broken!

    David: It's not called a penis, it's called a ding-dong!