Minari
A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to an Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, Minari shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Well done @He-man83
All about family & dreams.
Minimal Minari @ssilva
For those of us that have come to this country in search of the “American Dream” while working illegal 12 or 15 hour days in the freezing cold or the scorching heat, Minari translates as a “so what” kind of a movie. Before you start throwing burnt egg plants and tomates, let me explain. As a movie fanatic and as a former migrant worker I have to take into account my personal experiences as well as past movies that have in more impactful ways have told a more convincing story of struggle and hope is accomplishing the American Dream. The one obvious movie that comes to mind is the 1984 movie El Norte by writer and director Gregory Nava. (We’ll get back to this reference at the end of my review) While I’m thrilled to see a movie like Minari receiving substantial attention from critics and the academy award nominations, I believe political correctness is driving a lot of this movie’s hype. The reason I’m sending this out there is the overwhelming shallow and disconnected story telling in Minari that failed to draw me in and convince me that the family’s situation was unique and telling of golden nuggets of unspoken experiences. The closest the content comes to delivering anything remotely original and wise is the grandmother telling David not to throw rocks at the snake because it’s better to see and know where scary things are instead of them hiding. This story needed some raw, dirty ugliness for it to grow into something believable and worthy of my empathy. It consistently failed to draw me into their world of struggle. A lot of this failure came from giving the viewer an extremely sterile existence: it was predictable, fragmented and slow. I wanted this movie to drag me through fields of pain, struggle and a dissection of cultural nuances. Instead the movie left me regretting the $19.99 rental and 1:56 minutes of non productive time. If you’re looking for a better version of the struggle to reach the American Dream, watch El Norte and get ready for a life changing experience.
A window into the experience of others @R4z3rsPar4d0x
Do not read this review if you do not want thematic spoilers, I have avoided specific plot beat spoilers though. This movie is hard to sum up in adjectives. Touching? Heart breaking? Thought provoking? All can work here at different moments. I tagged this as foreign, but let me be very clear — this is an American movie through and through. It’s about the struggles of coming to America for immigrants. I can’t easily speak to this in terms of accuracy, but it hurt me to see some of the racism portrayed through the white characters and to see this movie snubbed in the oscars as only a foreign film. I loved this movie though, it’s not a “feel good” movie, but it’s not heartbreaking. It left me thinking about the characters, their lives, the world we’re in now and the struggles we all face sometimes. Great movie.
$20 to rent. I’ll wait to buy. @Tab Cola
The trailer looks great and I’d love to see this movie but I will not pay $20 to rent it when it’ll be $20 to buy it in a few weeks - I know the pandemic is rough for the movie industry but if you let me buy it, I’m in otherwise I’ll wait.
Really good!! @Trashboat32
Very good story about achieving the American dream and the performances are amazing, great movie and worth watching. Steven yeun, Yeri Han and Yuh jung Youn in Particular were the standouts to me the most.