Minari: A Perfect Sunday Movie

 

Minari, It’s exactly the movie we need right now. Minari showcases the knot between hope and pain. A spectacular watch, especially during these grueling times, Minari is a gentle story intertwined with heartbreaking realism and personal decision. In this pandemic, some may have forgotten the importance of truly feeling any real emotions. If you've lost someone, this movie evokes the freakish nature of seeing them again. The movie showcases these self confident characters yet who are astoundingly loud for those who come from immigrant families. Minari is a beautiful picture that unlike current mainstream cinema makes you review the beauty you live in once you walk outside.

 

Plot:

Two broken Korean couple Monica and Jacob came for the American dream, trying to make ends meet and  support their family, but stumbled by the reality of the hardship. Monica really does not share the dream her husband Jacob has. When Jacob sets out to realize his dream, he comes to the point where he must keep true to himself and push forward to realize his dream. The resulting schism between him and Monica provides the delicate but heartbreaking discussion of their destiny. They have a two-child Anne and David, where Anne is so adjusting and typical modern middle-class teenager and David is a bedwetting school kid having a problem with his heart. In the midst of everything, David's grandmother come to their rescue, giving her everything in her own way and helping them finding the purpose and hope of life through pain and struggle, delivering the family closer and stronger together.

 

 

A movie that seeps down to let out the truth buried in the lesser visited terrain of our hearts. Through the story of Jacob and Monica, a family aspiring a new start in life thus, visiting the zero of it.

In a society where success is acknowledged only in the city lights, Jacob thrives to be a successful man and a father to David and Anne. We connect behavior with character like a father is supposed to be successful; grandma ought to know cooking and baking cookies.

 

“Our lives like the Minari plant grows on its own we just have to plant it in the right place where nature and family heal the deepest holes in our hearts".

 

Life is difficult for the family in the suburbs and Monica eventually loses faith in her husband but agony, at its acme, lead to the revelation that “Prosperity can be cradled only in the hollow of love and togetherness."

Overall, Minari is a well-crafted masterpiece that portrays the different shades of family dynamics. The film is slow-paced but you need to absorb each character frame by frame to experience an exhilarating family drama.