This is a good old fashioned movie with little story line but high on characterization. They don't make a lot movies like this anymore. Movies now-a-days are more concerned with over the top action scenes, out of control computer effects, and budgets that could fund most small nations for decades. It was amazing to find a movie that was concerned with none of this but was only concerned with the story about a woman growing up in America - specifically in Brooklyn (of the title and that specificity is crucial to the story) - away from her home county of Ireland.
There is absolutely nothing complicated about this story as it ushers in all sorts of storytelling techniques from the Golden Age of movies. I just don't hardly see many movies this brave and daring to rest the entire story on the shoulders of one single character. But I've got to admit I got caught up in her story. I felt for her as she left her country to come to America. I felt for her leaving everything behind - mother and sister. Her lack of friends. Her starting completely over from nothing and then moving her way up slowly but surely. I couldn't help but root for her to succeed. The movie's greatest addition is when she finds a boyfriend from Brooklyn. His character not only brought a jolt of life to the movie but also sparked some fire in the main character and not in the sort of way that said a woman needed a man to complete her life but in a way a true friend brightens the life of a person. Watching their relationship grow was a thing of beauty. Then the true test of her growth was shown when she went back to Ireland and the choices and decisions she made there really showed how she had grown.
Truly a gem of movie that needs to be seen and talked about more.
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