The Straight Story

Sat in front of the computer and watched a film by David Lynch, The Straight Story (1999).

It is a road movie set in the midwest of the United States. An 73 year old man takes his lawn-mower, ties it to a trailer and sets of from Iowa to Wisconsin, a 300 mile journey traveling at 5 miles an hour. A movie with very little action and with hardly any other developing plot than to chug along the road, the movie nonetheless, with the images and the sounds (particularly the BGM (by Angelo Badalamenti) of the couuntryside, hit a certain chord. Sometimes, although I do know that that country is not my native land (whatever that may mean), there is a place in my heart ,for the country that I spent close to 10 years. Movies and music, does sometimes takes me back.