this be a quiet movie . it a simple story about a writer who can not write his story come back to his home town to get start but instead he get involve in a friendship with a weird old man whose life externally represent perhaps the internal state of the writer it a museum of unfinished idea and outdated equipment and useless people . there be no extraordinary circumstance or any big movement in the plot . it a movie about internal change . be stick in their life which be not develop much and the principal personages get to help each other to transform and stop leaving in dream and achieve something or at least get a change and give their life the desired and long await new direction . on the film make side i can think of only one weakness which could also be consider a a feature we do not get much of character description or inner world insight . it very narrative on the side of thought and event and we have to guess about their true feeling which be rather hidden but still you can see them and and this be what make your own mind work and try to figure them out and to understand the impression make by those people and and it not empty underneath the actor definitely hold well some inner state proper to their character . it close to the real life where you mostly never know someone well enough to understand them completely and and this turn u around and put in front of our own feeling and choice . what most important for me be that this simple almost flat story leave you ponder afterwards and about your own life and about your own dream and achievement and be there any or be we catch up in the routine and pleasure and leave at 100 % or only dream about it and could we do more and move somewhere we would rather like to be than just leave feed ourselves and others the tale like i will do this one day not move one finger to make this actually happen and or i be fine where i be because it easy to go by the habit than to actually make a change . at least that the impression it leave me with and it be very timely for me and which add to my appreciation of this far from famous movie . i definitely recommend it to anyone who like the movie mean for the heart but those who need event and action should stay away .