By David Lynch
With Richard Farnsworth, Harry Dean Stanton, Sissy Spacek
The Straight Story is part of the "narrative strands" of the film by David Lynch, inaugurated by The Elephant Man in 1980 and continued ten years later with Wild at Heart , confirming the fact that the testing of new linguistic forms and strictly personal (or lynchane, as they say) is often accompanied by the need to return to a classical narrative, true to traditional canons of assembly "invisible." If the narrative structure of the previous Lost Highways recalls the paradoxical form of the Mobius strip, as a slew of critics have noted, semiologists and spin doctors, the linearity of the story here is sharp and clear from the outset , as also suggested by the title: it starts from a small town in Iowa and comes to Mount Zion, Wisconsin.
To give a measure of the beauty of the story is enough to remember what happens at the beginning of the movie: Alvin Straight, an old man who was recently diagnosed with a bad hardly curable, gets a call from his brother Lyle has not seen for many years due to a trivial dispute unresolved. Lyle brings bad news, now is not long to live. Alvin wants to see him one last time, but it is no license to drive and his brother lives hundreds of miles away, and be accompanied by someone not really want to know. Taken from a moment of despair casts an eye out the window that 'the garden where to wait for his eyes there is a beautiful half broken-down lawnmower. Yes, just use this scrap as a means of transport to reach Lyle Wisconsin, facing a trip to the maximum speed of 5 mph.
particular should not be overlooked, The Straight Story tells a true story in America in 1994 to seventy-Alvin Straight. The interpretation of Richard Farnsworth, here at his last film appearance, will remain forever among the most memorable and disarming that the movie memories.
You can find the number 517 of the video tape.
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