Brooklyn (2015)

[FierceRedBelt]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2381111/

Saw this with my mother earlier this weekend and I'm not sure what to make of it. I wouldn't expect many of the alpha males around here to have seen it but it's essentially the story of an Irish young lady who immigrates to the US in the 1950's.

Spoiler

When she arrives she's very homesick which eventually fades once she meets a young man and eventually gets married to him secretly before returning home to Ireland after her sister's death. Once back home she starts seeing an Irish young man until an elderly lady in the town threatens to expose her. Once that happens she declares her married name proudly and promptly books a trip back to America to meet back up with her husband.

I wasn't really sure what to take from the story; well except for not having much respect for her character and feeling bad for both of the men. I've since found that many people consider her admitting that she was a married woman as some type of declaration of love. What in the world is going on? Or did I miss something?

edit: decoration -> declaration

 

[John Wang]

Nice! Will check this out soon

 

[Guestx]

This year was the first year where I watched all of the Best Picture nominees before the actual ceremony went down, so I've seen Brooklyn. I thought it was good but not great. Good production design, good performances, but there was something about the story that just fell a little flat for me.

BTW FRB, you said: "I've since found that many people consider her admitting that she was a married woman as some type of decoration of love. What in the world is going on? Or did I miss something?"

I'm a little confused by this. Can you rephrase it?

BTW #2, for anyone who wants to see Saoirse Ronan in what I think is a much better movie and better role, go watch Hanna.

 

[FierceRedBelt]

BTW FRB, you said: "I've since found that many people consider her admitting that she was a married woman as some type of decoration of love. What in the world is going on? Or did I miss something?"

I'm a little confused by this. Can you rephrase it?

BTW #2, for anyone who wants to see Saoirse Ronan in what I think is a much better movie and better role, go watch Hanna.

Spoiler

When the older Irish lady threatened to expose her as a married woman she responded with:

"I'd forgotten what this town is like. What were you planning to do, Miss Kelly? Keep me away from Jim? Stop me from going back to America? Perhaps you didn't even know. Perhaps it was enough for you to know that you could ruin me. My name is Eilis Fiorello."

My mother took that as a declaration of love for her American husband completely invalidating her new relationship with the Irish young man. Are we to ignore the fact that she'd already married that American man and been whoring around with other man? I felt like she wasn't choosing her husband but she was choosing the life she could get away with without looking bad.

I'll check out Hanna, she's a stunning young lady.

edit: decoration -> declaration

 

[Guestx]

Spoiler

When the older Irish lady threatened to expose her as a married woman she responded with:

"I'd forgotten what this town is like. What were you planning to do, Miss Kelly? Keep me away from Jim? Stop me from going back to America? Perhaps you didn't even know. Perhaps it was enough for you to know that you could ruin me. My name is Eilis Fiorello."

My mother took that as a decoration of love for her American husband completely invalidating her new relationship with the Irish young man. Are we to ignore the fact that she'd already married that American man and been whoring around with other man? I felt like she wasn't choosing her husband but she was choosing the life she could get away with without looking bad.

I'll check out Hanna, she's a stunning young lady.

Spoiler

By decoration, do you mean declaration?

And yeah, it was a weird moment. And the whole thing about her basically cheating on her husband is one reason I just didn't care for the movie that much. Our heroine does not seem that virtuous at all, really. It may have been one thing if she had not made the choice to get married, but since she did, it doesn't look good for her to forget her vows so quickly.

And as for Hanna, here's the trailer:

 

[FierceRedBelt]

Spoiler

By decoration, do you mean declaration?

And yeah, it was a weird moment. And the whole thing about her basically cheating on her husband is one reason I just didn't care for the movie that much. Our heroine does not seem that virtuous at all, really. It may have been one thing if she had not made the choice to get married, but since she did, it doesn't look good for her to forget her vows so quickly.

And as for Hanna, here's the trailer:

Yep, that's definitely the word I'd been thinking of. Not sure what happened there to be honest.

I wouldn't mind a story about a woman who was cheating but to paint it as something else was bizarre to me. Even more bizarre was that someone else watching it right next to me could get a completely different message from what they just saw.

 

[BB in Crazy!!!!]

I loved Hanna.

Thought about checking out Brooklyn.