Minari, Minari. Wonderful Minari! Minari is wonderful, wonderful! ….
Minari is a truly wonderful, wonderful film that begs to be seen whenever possible. This is the movie the world needs right now. I bet, you won’t be the same afterward.
Watched Minari ( the 2020 Korean-American film) last night and it still boggles my mind about life, family and future. Little did I know how my life would change in a matter of hours. The story was so specific but still universal. It’s about all of us.
It took a while for me to understand the logline of the film. It is too inadequate to call it just a story of a South Korean family or a poignant immigrant drama. Director Lee Isaac Chung has crafted an amazing story for the world to know through his characters Jacob Yi and his family.
Minari is simply a masterpiece. It was something magical. It did that kind of a magic what Director Mahendran’s Uthiripookal (The 1979 Tamil film) did to me. The soul touching magic.
The spirit of resilience that this movie taught me is the magic. From Frayed relationship struggles to dream following to cultural binding and missing home to cross generational relationships, Minari speaks a lot but silently and for me, Minari did the task subconsciously.
Life is not so easy but what humans need to learn is the resilience. It’s not always about a wealthy house, but living in a small container house, sleeping together on the floor, spending some quality time with the family. Minari teaches about how Life finds its way.
Minari is a brilliant, awe-inspiring story of how our commitment can lead to great success and a better quality of life.
Family is the most important thing in our lives. Taking time every day to appreciate your loved ones for all that they do helps us to reconnect as a family. That final scene, where Jacob Yi’s family is sleeping peacefully in the safety of one another’s presence, is the manifestation of a family sticking together through it all. That’s the soul of a real family experience. Their problems haven’t disappeared and their flaws haven’t been redressed. But each, in their own way, have made the choice to keep moving forward together. Though challenges lie immediately ahead, the fractures in their bond have transformed into something far steadier. It’s a quiet moment that is deafening in its power.
This movie has come out at a time when lives are lost during the Global Pandemic, people are loosing jobs, businesses are failing, families are struggling to make ends meet. Without preaching anything, this movie just sprinkles water onto our faces, slaps us with subtle humour and quietly tells us subconsciously that resilience is the need of the hour.
Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
Like in the voice of Soonji the grand mother, who signifies a new start for the Jacob-Monica family….
Minari, Minari. Wonderful Minari. Minari is truly the best. It grows anywhere, like weeds. So anyone can pick and eat it. Rich or poor, anyone can enjoy it and be healthy. Minari can be put in kimchi, put in stew, put in soup. It can be medicine if you are sick. Minari is wonderful, wonderful!
MARSHAL © 