Film 561
Lusiqi
The story is about an Irish reserved woman, Eilis, who migrates to America with the help from Father Flood. Due to intercultural differences and different life styles, Eilis faces plenty of obstacles at the beginning. However, she conquers the difficulties soon, gets used to American life and eventually finds her destiny.
From my perspective, this is not just a romantic movie. The movie expresses the description of " home". Though Eilis is extremely homesick when she first arrives at America, she is attracted by the life in New York after she makes progress. Many reviewers consider the main idea of this film is about " homesick" and " difficulties for immigrations". Conversely, I regard the main idea as " home is in the same place where the heart is in".
Like Eilis, there will definitely be many obstacles for immigration to achieve their goal in other countries. However, once they make the first step to make changes and find out where they actually belong to, they will not be willing to go back to hometown where the culture and society are conservative and backward.
I encourage people to be brave to experience different lives, like Eilis, instead of staying in the same place and maintaining the same life.