Not a lot happens in The Road Home. This is a romance that lacks the typical trappings of Hollywood romances. There are no misunderstandings, no passionate scenes, no talk of fate, little drama of any sort. You are never in doubt these two get together, because you are told over and over that they do. The movie is not about suspense, but simply about watching something unfold.
What you have is a simple, pretty little movie about a young girl who develops a crush on a new schoolteacher in her village. She throws herself at him in a very chaste way, and a tremendous amount of the movie is pictures of the pretty young girl in beautiful fields and forests looking at him from a distance with happiness or anxiousness. In hindsight it's a little silly, but it works.
I found the first half of the movie a little slow, although by the halfway point, as the movie moved from non-eventful to slightly eventful, it became increasingly touching.
It's not really a great love story. The girl basically just thinks the guy is pretty. And while it's not a typical Hollywood romance, it still is a little manipulative. But even though I usually don't like movies where little happens, I genuinely enjoyed this one.
What you have is a simple, pretty little movie about a young girl who develops a crush on a new schoolteacher in her village. She throws herself at him in a very chaste way, and a tremendous amount of the movie is pictures of the pretty young girl in beautiful fields and forests looking at him from a distance with happiness or anxiousness. In hindsight it's a little silly, but it works.
I found the first half of the movie a little slow, although by the halfway point, as the movie moved from non-eventful to slightly eventful, it became increasingly touching.
It's not really a great love story. The girl basically just thinks the guy is pretty. And while it's not a typical Hollywood romance, it still is a little manipulative. But even though I usually don't like movies where little happens, I genuinely enjoyed this one.