The film "Minari" focuses on the 1980s. The male and female protagonists Jacob and Monica are the first generation of immigrants who came to the United States from South Korea.
At the beginning of the movie, a family of four moved from California to the central United States. When his wife Monica arrived at the farm, she was surprised. Obviously, this was a far cry from her expected life.
The new home they want to live in is not even a traditional real estate, but an RV parked on a farm. This is really difficult for people with Asian cultural backgrounds to accept, just as "A Place Without a Support" can hardly resonate with Chinese audiences.
Obviously, Monica didn't know about this arrangement and said "this is not the same as what you promised." This sentence for the first time speaks out the lack of communication between the husband and wife in their marital status, and also paves the way for a series of differences caused by the different values of the two in the film.
Maybe because women lack decision-making power in the family in Korean culture, maybe because the husband Jacob knew that his wife could not accept such an arrangement, so he deliberately concealed it, thinking that he would fool his wife to the farm by coaxing, and maybe the wife would live here for a while. Can change.
In California, the couple made a living by identifying the sex of chicks. The job is cumbersome and the income is not high but relatively stable. His wife Monica has her own friends, and the city has convenient medical conditions to provide health support for his son with heart disease.
When he moved to Arkansas, Jacob had the opportunity to run his own farm, grow and sell Korean agricultural products. This is his ideal, but it is not entirely his personal dream. There is something to improve the material conditions of the family. But in Arkansas, it is inconvenient for his son to go to a doctor, and his wife Monica has no friends. At this stage, they are financially struggling, and they need to work harder to identify the sex of the chicks to maintain their lives and provide funds for the construction of the farm.
When the construction and operation of the farm faced many difficulties, the contradiction between the husband and wife gradually increased. Jacob put more energy on the farm, ignoring the needs of his family. Jacob puts the farm before his family, and believes that the temporary solution of the farm crisis is equivalent to the solution of the family crisis. In fact, Monica's material and spiritual needs have not been resolved, and have not even been seen.
Without the derailment of dog blood, life alone is enough to make two people who both want to live a good life to fall apart.
No one is even right or wrong, it's just that the difficulties of life have made both parties unhappy. The weakness of reality defeated the heroes and heroines, and was passed on to the audience in the bright music and the contrast of the pictures.
Why are two people who obviously want to pursue happiness, but can't get together in the end?
Maybe because they have different definitions of happiness. One wants to realize the grand ideal and give the family long-term abundance, but ignores the present; one wants to live a good life now without being stretched.
Perhaps without material constraints, the contradiction between Jacob and Monica would not be irreconcilable. Unfortunately, there is no if. When the film presents the love without bread to the audience, the fragility of feelings is truly uncomfortable.
What's more cruel is that if you put yourself into the situation of the male and female leader, can you make a better choice than them? Maybe no one dared to make a guarantee.
The same dilemma is not limited to immigrants and international students. Everyone who leaves their hometown to work should resonate. Living in an unfamiliar city will inevitably face work bottlenecks, children’s needs, parents’ pension difficulties, housing pressure, and so on. As the mobility of job opportunities increases, whether to go to farther cities alone to seek better development, or to move the house as a whole.
There is no standard answer to the balance between feelings and career, between individual and family. The only clear answer is to maintain it with deeper love, more tenacious love, more faithful love, and more wise love.
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