david lynch usually make film that resemble puzzle put together the wrong way . they be interest to look at and think about but they really do not gel in your mind . perhaps art will always mean the most to it creator . the straight story be not a typical david lynch film . not that there anything typical about them anyway . it an odyssey through rural america . a real life journey alvin straight take on a lawn mower to get to his brother house . he ride 300 mile from laurens and iowa to mt . zion and wisconsin to make amends to his sick brother for past offense . at the heart of this film be sweet voiced richard farnsworth . he bring alvin straight right to u in a simple and honest way . the fact that the film be slow paced match alvin slow journey toward realization . along the way alvin meet a confused and frightened young girl . she be pregnant and have decide to run away from her situation . after listen to alvin speak about family she reconsider . later alvin witness a distraught woman kill a deer with her car . she complain that she have kill several and leaf . alvin feel bad but be smart enough to cook up some dear meat that night . later alvin lawn mower lose it brake and nearly kill him . a nice man and his wife let him stay in their yard while he get it fix . they even let him call his sweet but slow daughter and nicely play by sissy spacek and whose haunt by a terrible tragedy in her own past . alvin insist on pay for the call . the man even offer to drive alvin to his brother with pleasure . alvin decline with thanks . while alvin wait he also go off to a bar with a kindly old man a they discuss the harshness of war and the price it take on their soul . alvin even confess a fatal mistake he make a a sniper that have forever haunt him . alvin also encounter two bicker brother who have repair his lawn mower . he talk them down in price wisely call them on their high labor and repair cost . he even help them to appreciate one another learning from his own mistake with his brother . the night before alvin leave the man yard he take his hat off to him . the man tell him it be an honor have him stay and ask alvin to write to him . this scene be perfect in it simplicity . it heartfelt because it so straight and so real . the journey continue and we can not help to get more and more involved with it . we want alvin to get to his brother . we want him to make amends . we want to know this world be full of forgiveness . this be richard farnsworth at his best . it be his last film and his performance be amaze . you can not help but to understand his pride and to listen to his wisdom and and to ultimately feel his pain . one become a take with him a the man who offer him his back yard to stay in . if there justice in the afterlife then alvin straight and his brother and and richard farnsworth be together sit at a bar . i can picture them discuss their life and regret and hope and and joy . a alvin say in the film and my brother and i use to look up at the star . well and i know they all be with the best view in the house .