The Story Archive

Brooklyn

John Crowley · 2015 CE · Film · English · Contemporary

A young woman leaves a small Irish town in the early 1950s for a boarding house and a shop counter in New York, sick with homesickness until an Italian plumber asks her to dance. A death at home then calls her back to the life she gave up, where a different future is suddenly on offer. Crowley's adaptation of Colm Tóibín's novel rests on Saoirse Ronan's precision.

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Attributes

Genre
RomanceHistoricalComing-of-Age
Theme
Exile & HomecomingLoveIdentity & Self
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
HeroineLoverInnocent
Plot structure
Exile and ReturnBildungsromanSeparation and Reunion
Symbol / motif
The Ship / BoatThe SeaThe Letter
Conflict
vs Selfvs Society
Mode / tone
RealistRomanticElegiac
Culture / tradition
English

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