The Road Home

Symbolism can be extremely powerful in film, and it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a movie with such a great amount of symbolism as found in The Road Home. The loom, which represented Di’s relationship with her recently deceased husband was very moving. The audience was able to see how proud she was to be able to create something for the new school and the new teacher when she was a young girl, and when it jumps to her as an old woman who lost her husband, we really feel why it is so important for her to make one last cloth on the loom to bury with her husband. The bowl was another great use of symbolism in the film. It was so important to Di for the new teacher to take the food she made when the school was being built. When he finally comes over to eat, the audience can tell that she wants so badly for him to recognize the bowl. When the teacher leaves for a period of time and the bowl breaks, we feel her heart breaking and realize the bowl sort of represents her loss of the teacher. When the bowl gets fixed, the teacher shortly returns and hope that her hope has been restored that they will be together. I was so moved by the symbolism and heart in this film - definitely a tear-jerker!