This film portrays the immigrant experience better than any other I've seen - the unreality of the departure until it happens, the heartbreak of the departure, the assault on the senses of the new, the crushing isolation, the slow transition to normality through the establishing of relationships, the building up of a new identity through new experiences and personal growth, the exposure to new cultures, the loss of identity, the guilt of being torn across two worlds, the pain of the people left behind, even dispensing with the fantasy that emigration leads to better life... it resonates deeply with viewers who've lived it... and all lusciously produced and acted.
However... that terrible ending. It makes no sense. Her poor mother. The cruelty of it, and because of some petty local tyrant. Nonsense.
However... that terrible ending. It makes no sense. Her poor mother. The cruelty of it, and because of some petty local tyrant. Nonsense.