Wednesday, October 15, 2008
A Straight Story
I found this movie to be very moving. The desire for the old man to go forth on his way and travel to see his brother. This showed his strong sense of family, through his relationship with his daughter Rose and him traveling to see his brother, and to 'focal practices' . Some 'focal practices' would would be him connecting with nature through camping, also him learning about his machine, the lawnmower. Another would be the campfire circles where he would interact with people and share stories. But mainly his relationship with his machine, him wanting to know the past owner and wanting to fix himself, and wanting to travel the whole trip on his lawnmower even though it has been causing him some problems. He knew it would get him where he needed to get even though other thought there would be a better device, such as a car, to get him there, but he knew that a car wasn't the only way to get him there. He knew it would be hard and that is what made his trip mean so much to him.
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I agree with this a lot, especially after finishing the movie. Alvin Straight was not a man that you could tell what to do, he was going to do things his way; by riding his lawn mower. However, by this action though, he showed his brother Lyle that he cared enough to spend a month and a half travelling on a lawn mower just to come see him. This relates a lot to the device paradigm by Alvin showing his brother he cared and that he was sorry by his actions. He did this through the things he used, such as the lawn mower and camping out on the side of the road, instead of possibly getting a ride from someone else or riding the bus to his brother's house.
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