Film Review of "brooklyn" and Minor Characterization of Eilis

Review of ”Brooklyn”

The film ”Brooklyn” is a story about the young girl Eilis, who lives in Ireland with her mother Mary and elder sister Rose. While living in Ireland Rose is studying to become a bookkeeper. Rose does not seem happy in the beginning, and the only friend she has is her sister Rose. Rose is a bit modest, and she is almost never happy in the beginning. That changes after Eilis is introduced to the priest, Father Flood. Father Flood wants to help Eilis emigrate to America to get a job. Here we also see how Eilis is a bit hesitant with everything, because she did not quite like the idea in the first place, but since she did not have a choice, she would soon be on a Dreamliner heading for Brooklyn. Now this is when everything starts to change. Eilis moves into a boardinghouse run by Mrs. Kehoe who is Irish too. She starts working at Bartocci’s Department Store and everything is new and wonderful, but Eilis starts to become very homesick. This is when Father Flood steps in and invites Eilis to come serve Christmas dinner at his parish, which helps Eilis’s homesickness go away because she feels like she is home. The big development comes when Eilis meets Tony, she suddenly opens up like a flower. She becomes happier and more positive, and last but not least she becomes a grown up. Things are going flawlessly until Eilis’s sister passes away, which compels Eilis to go home to her mother and take care of her. When Eilis comes home the mother has also developed into a very unloving and negative person after her daughter’s death. It seems like the mother is trying to get Eilis to be just like Rose, because she makes her wear Rose’s clothes and work where Rose worked. This could be a sign of her grieving. During her stay in Ireland, Eilis falls in love with Jim who she knew before she went to America. Jim wants her to stay and live with him in his parents’ house. Jim is prosperous because he inherits his parents’ property when they die. Whether Eilis chooses Jim or Tony is up to you to find out.

This is a staggering movie and yet another masterpiece from John Crawley(director) who also directed the award-winning movie “Boy A”. John Crawley has this beautiful way of displaying his movies in such a noble way and yet the movies still have this special charisma to it that will blow you off your feet. In “Brooklyn” John manages to elucidate the topics immigration, love, growing up, of course with help from the whole crew, they also manage to include the culture clashes between the Irish community and the American-Irish community. The culture clashes are portrayed by Jim and Tony. Tony represents the American-Irish community. Tony is a typical Italian fella whose only dream is to make a family and have a job, in this case Tony wants to start a