Driving Miss Daisy Reflection
In class we watched the movie Driving Miss Daisy. From my perspective, this movie is about two very stubborn people: Miss Daisy and Hoke. Miss Daisy is the far more stubborn of the two. After she crashes her car, her sons get a chauffeur for her. This is where her stubbornness kicks in. She hates the idea of having a chauffeur. From what I can tell, it's less that she hates chauffeurs and more that she hates change. The chauffeur she hires, Hoke, is also stubborn in a different way. Miss Daisy somehow finds a way to find something wrong with everything Hoke does. She treats him worse than her other house guests and constantly critique's his every move. She doesn't even want Hoke driving her at all, even if that means her son pays him for doing absolutely nothing.
In Hoke's position, there is a very easy and obvious thing to do: nothing. He could just do absolutely nothing and Miss Daisy would be satisfied, happy even, and he would get paid. Instead, Hoke absolutely insists on driving her. This is where Hoke's stubbornness comes in, he refuses to give up and take the easy way out, simply because he believes it wouldn't be the right thing to do. He tells Miss Daisy that her son is paying him so he has to do his job. It would be so easy to quit especially considering the constant berating he faces from Miss Daisy every day, yet he keeps on trying through it all.
This movie shows very directly how stubbornness can be a good or a bad thing from these two characters. Miss daisy is bad stubborn, she refuses to accept help in her life just because it's different to how she's used to living. Hoke is good stubborn. He sticks to his morals and refuses to quit despite the adversity he faces.
In the end Hoke wins out and Miss Daisy changes her ways. She admits that Hoke is her best friend and that she enjoys his company. Hoke, being hoke, sticks with her till the very end, when she's in a nursing home with dementia and doesn't have many others there for her.
My Honest Thoughts on the Movie
This is a movie that left me with something, it really is a beautiful story. I do wish they just kept it more brief. It was about 100 minutes for a story that could've been told in half the time, and a lot of the plot beats felt repeated and old as the movie went on. I did like the movie but I wouldn't watch it again. I guess I like the idea of this movie more than the actual film itself.
Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Driving-Miss-Daisy-film-by-Beresford
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097239/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097239/plotsummary/
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