By Chilimovie - 23 July 2021
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.
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, the contact between me and my family and friends can be fast and convenient, but the feeling of loneliness, I believe, 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 she received the first letter from home, she 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. I feel that the opportunity to study in the United States is hard-won, and 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 leisurely to live up to 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 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. 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.
I hope that all those who work hard for their dreams are happy, and they deserve this happiness.
