Love, Wandering and Homesickness in Brooklyn

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Synopsis:In 1950s, Alice, an Irish girl whose life was frustrated repeatedly, went to America to look for a broader future with the help of her sister Rose and the priest. From being unfamiliar with the salesgirl’s work and missing her hometown, to meeting and getting married with her Italian boyfriend Tony, Alice completed the transformation in one year. Because of the sudden death of her sister Rose, she returned to her hometown, met the young squire Jim under the introduction of her mother, and inherited her sister’s work. While hesitating between home and far away, the grocer who once hired her threatened her. Finally, Alice resolutely returned to the United States, to her new husband.

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The epic of a generation of Irish immigrants

The movie Brooklyn is named after a district in new york, USA. As one of the five districts in new york, Brooklyn is the most densely populated. It is also the initial foothold for early European immigrants and even immigrants from all over the world to set foot in the New World of new york. Not only the Irish immigrants introduced in this film, but also the Dutch, Italians and so on, so it is of great significance to choose the background of the film story in Brooklyn.

Although the film is named after a district in new york, USA, it tells the story of how a girl who came to the United States from Ireland made a choice between two countries, two boys and two different fates in the 1950s.

In 2016, it was nominated for many international awards, such as Oscar for Best Film, Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. So what is the charm that makes such a film about the old-fashioned romantic history a masterpiece, and why can the choice of the heroine always touch the hearts of the audience?

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: Author of the original novel Brooklyn

Famous contemporary Irish writers

The success of Brooklyn is inseparable from its original novel of the same name, and its author is colm tobin, a famous Irish writer who has experienced a foreign land and returned to his hometown. High-yield, best-selling, favored by the highest awards in British fiction, these are highly summarized by critics for Tobin’s works. However, the humorous Tobin said that Ireland is a serious hometown of literature, and throwing a stone casually on the road can hit a novelist.

In 2009, he was invited to China and gave speeches at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Shanghai Fudan University. But can you imagine? Such a great writer could not read and stammered until he was nine years old.

In 1955, Tobin was born into a taciturn Irish family. Later, influenced by Hemingway, he changed from a journalist to a writer. The life of living in various countries has made him feel personally about drifting. The creation of the novel Brooklyn originated from a story he heard when he was 12 years old. It was about a little girl who grew up and left the town where Tobin lived. This planted a seed in the young Tobin’s heart. It didn’t blossom until he was 54 years old. In 2015, six years after the novel was published, Brooklyn, the movie of the same name, made this story cross the mountains and rivers again.

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Nominated for Best Actress Oscar for three times.

Spokesman of "New Generation Acting School"

Saoirse Ronan, an actress, and Alice, the heroine of this film, have somewhat the same experience. Ronan, whose parents are Irish, was born in new york, USA in 1994. When he was three years old, his parents brought him back to Ireland, where he grew up, and later went to Britain and Hollywood to develop. In an interview, she once said, "I don’t know where I come from, I’m just Irish."

Ronan’s father, paul ronan, is a well-known movie star in Ireland. Influenced by his father, Ronan decided to become an actor very early.

Ronan made her debut as an actress at the age of eight, but she did not rely on her father’s relationship. Instead, she got many opportunities to play roles through her outstanding performance in fierce audition competitions, including movies. With this film, she was nominated as the best supporting actress at the age of 14, which set off the peak of her acting career.

The movie Brooklyn is of great significance to Ronan, who successfully brought Ronan into the eyes of fans as an adult. Previously, people’s impression of her may still be the blue-eyed girl in Atonement who was able to show the complicated role psychology with performance at the age of 12. Although she had wonderful performances in movies and movies, these roles never helped her establish a suitable screen image.

It was not until Brooklyn that she played the role of an Irishman for the first time in the film, so she was very excited and put on weight to shape the role, which made the 21-year-old lose her original girlish feeling. However, it also adds a simple color to the role, more like an ordinary girl who has left her hometown and started from the bottom.

More interestingly, Ronan, who has always had a good relationship with his parents and has their full support, often tries and challenges some brave, independent and youthful rebellious characters. Just like her wonderful performance in movies and movies, she won two Oscar nominations for best actress with these two movies. These roles, which seem to have no intersection with her in real life, can be successfully shaped by her, which also shows her strong plasticity and becomes the spokesperson of the "new generation acting school".

Two different fates in life and two feelings that are hard to choose, the story of Brooklyn touches the heartstrings of every audience.In addition to the two countries in the movie, it is difficult for the heroine to choose, and there are two handsome boys who need her to make a choice. One is emory cohen, an American actor who plays an Italian plumber in the film, and the other is an Irish actor who ties the heroine’s hometown.Domhnall Gleeson.

What choice will Alice, the heroine, make between them? Let’s find the answer in this week’s "Jun Le Bao Jia Pian You Yue"!

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