Just watched the great movie directed by one of my favorite directors David Lynch called "The Straight Story" - the movie is about Alvin Straight, a sickly, elderly man who lives with his adult daughter Rose. When he hears that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a stroke, he makes up his mind to go visit him and hopefully make amends. The trouble is that Alvin's legs and eyes are too impaired for him to drive a car, so he hitches a trailer to his recently purchased 30-year-old riding lawnmower and sets off on the 240-mile journey from Laurens, Iowa to Mount Zion, Wisconsin.
What a great and deeply touching motion picture, a modern odyssey of a man dealing with his own mortality and the lasting bonds of brotherhood.
I recommend it to you all if you like slow and very emotional films.
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