Brooklyn is an excellent literary film based on the novel of the same name. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Irish writer Colm Toibin, the film depicts the life of an Irish girl in the United States in the 1950s, telling a moving story of wandering and return, responsibility and freedom. The film uses a simple lens language to reproduce the scenes of life in Brooklyn and Ireland more than half a century ago, presenting an American dream with the characteristics of the times, and a cold nostalgia filled with sadness.
The film tells a poor Irish girl Alice, through the introduction of her sister, left her hometown to work in Brooklyn, the United States, met the Italian boy Tony in the same district, fell in love and married, alice suddenly died, returned to the country to mourn Alice met the gentleman man Jim of the same country, and in the interaction with Jim, Alice's faith was shaken, and at this time Alice's former employer suddenly appeared, trying to threaten through the fact that she was married, and Alice left Ireland the next day in anger. Set foot in Brooklyn, New York, again, and hug her husband, Tony.
As stated in the narration at the end of the film: And one day the sun will come out, you might not even note it straight away, i would be that faint. And then you will catch yourself thinking about something or someone who has no connection with the past. Someone who's only yours. And you'll realize that this is where your life is. At that time, you will start to think about other things, and you will think about a person who has nothing to do with your past, a person who belongs only to you, and this is the life you should aspire to. ）