What's the life that you picture for yourself? And what's the life that everybody pictures for yourself? It might be the same thing but most of the cases is not and even many people tend to please and choose the one that everyone expects just to make others happy or avoid judgment, there are moments when can't stop but wondering what if? and what if... actually things happen and opportunities a rise to try a different life, one closer to the one you deserve and dream about, but as everything, might come with a price, sometimes a very high one, that need to be paid in order to achieve that goal and find happiness but at the end, a happiness that we've been fighting for and it's well deserved as t's your life and you following your dream and your decisions no matter what other think or expect from you, its your heart that leads the way.
For anyone that this sounds familiar, i present you "Brooklyn" (2015), a new movie based on a tony award play that tells the story of one irish girl immigrant and serves as a tale to tell the real story of a nation that is built by immigrants and their stories and mix of cultures has created one of the most powerful nations in the globe, and full of stories like this, where a clash of cultures happen to create a new culture but can't help but go back to all their roots and bring the best and worst of them. Ellis is a young girl feeling trapped back in her hometown in Ireland, where her life lacks of meaning just surviving along her mother and sister, which his the one that helps her to find a way to buy a new life even if that means traveling to America, miles away from them and start a new life. So when she gets in a boat, heading to a new adventure, the beginning of her journey can't hurt more as the homesick turns her into a sad, lonely, quite person.
While trying to socialize and hug with her roommates, attending to an irish dance at church she mets an italian guy. A decent young man that confesses to be attracted to irish girls, so the connection is mutual and start getting together falling for each other in a very old fashion way, as was used to back in early 20th century. The arrival of love and a new person transforms her life in all aspects bringing the best of her and things start fitting in pieces while she starts growing as person and as woman. It's only after things happened back at home that made her travel back, that she gets trapped in her old routine but in a different way because she is different and that difference is notices by the others that haven't seen more or new things so keep trying to hold her back. Then will be her turn to face the truth in her heart and figure what's the life she wants for her: the promising future back to a new land, with new people but far from her beloved ones or stay at home where she belongs but not by heart and where things will be for sure and how they used to be.
The performance of this young girl facing what millions of immigrants from different ages and times have been suffering or struggle, leaving their homes seeking a better future or the promise of it, or maybe just looking for something different than what they know cause maybe they don't belong there, gives to this story a different meaning and a big heart and the chemistry of the young couple keeps anyone rooting for them in their journey for love and a life together. In other words we are about to face a romantic comedy, in an old fashion way that uses the story to create a big picture that will make anyone outside from America understand how this continent works, migration wise. What really means to leave the land that saw you born and grew in a quest for a different option in life that will promise a better life in many ways. Not just about love but a better job or a career, relate to other cultures, meeting different kinds of people, will open your mind and discover that maybe you belong more to others than to yourself.
It's sad to see how people settle for the live their parents, family or others planned for them and they follow it, but can't be judged as in some ways that makes them happy but what happen when actually that turns your life into a cage holding you back from becoming a better self or turning you into a sad version of what you are really meant to be and want to be. It's funny how we only realize when time passes that many of the advices and thing that happened have a reason, and we should listen to them, and then transfer and share them with others looking the same options we once did. How brave we become when we stand by ourselves and fight to survive away from all comfort and security that family and well known brings but also how her is for others to understand us ad us to feel understood when haven't been through this journey in life. How easy or hard can be identify what our mind and our heart are trying to tell us but we are able to look around us we can notice the signs that show us the path to choose and at the end the final decision is on us, no matter how hard it is, and if not what others want, cause always others will look for themselves and we as humans can be selfish, using family and love as an excuse to keep others closer but theres no bigger love than set anyone free and let them pursue what they are meant for.
With a beautiful romance and excellent performances, this film will reminds us what matters in life and how hard is to make decisions and live through their consequences even if that's the right thing to do or say but learning that standing for what we are and what we want will really define us, making us the only and true proof of what we want and who we are and learning that love will take more than one meaning and has different shades where we need to place everyone in our lives and according their moment and influence in us. Immigration even these days is a matter of any night's news, so when we are able to live, feel or see through what they are facing and understand why many of them choose these as the right thing to do than we can also see why for others is the wrong choice. But embracing new cultures, being able to become part of them, learning from then while sharing our own, will be a key to discover a different and unknown by then, face of ourselves that might surprise us or scare us but there will be always place in our hearts for home, even if that's the place where we come from or the new one where we are trying to make things work and t's growing on us. Definitely one of the finest movies of the year and a very personal introspective to a journey in life that means leave everything behind in the search of a better and different one and a story that will touch your heart while making it face the question of where does it belong at.
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