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"Field of Dreams" The love of baseball that heals life's setbacks and pain

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“Field of Dreams” synopsis

Ray (Kevin Costner), who grew up being told baseball stories instead of fairy tales by his father, who was a minor league player, one day hears a mysterious voice on his farm. “If you build it, he will come.” He interprets the meaning to mean building a baseball field, so he destroys part of the corn field he has been growing and builds a baseball field. One day, when everyone around him treated him like a freak and his money had run out, a man was standing at the baseball field. It was his father's hero, the late legendary major leaguer "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta). A 36-year-old man with a wife and children meets people who have failed in their dreams, guided by a voice that tells him that now is the only time he can go on an adventure to make his dreams come true.


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Meaning of quoting “Harvey”



"I was walking down the street and I heard a voice say, 'Good evening, Mr. Dowd.'"


When her daughter watches James Stuart say this, her father Ray, played by Kevin Costner, says, ``That man is a weirdo,'' and turns off the TV. The black and white movie that was being shown on TV at the time was Henry Coster's `` Harvey '' (1950).


In this movie, the main character is an alcoholic who claims that he is always with a giant white rabbit named ``Harvey,'' but ``Harvey'' is invisible to everyone except the main character, Mr. Dowd. And people around him think that Mr. Dowd is crazy because he has been drinking so much.



"Field of Dreams" (C) 1989 Universal City Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


Ray Kinsella, the main character in the movie ``Field of Dreams'' (1989), begins building a baseball field in the middle of his farm, following a voice coming from a cornfield that says, ``Build it and he will come.'' Due to his sudden actions, those around him wonder if he's gone crazy, but in the scene where Ray talks to his local peers about "voice," he politely sings "Crazy" sung by Beverly D'Angelo. ' song is playing in the store. Eventually, the ghost of former famous player "Shoeless" Joe Jackson appears at the baseball field built by Ray.


Only those who believe can see it. In other words, the quote from ``Harvey'' can be seen as a foreshadowing of the characters playing baseball and the theme of the work. Ray's daughter, Karin, believed in the story of Harvey as she watched it, and that is also the reason why she is the one who discovers the baseball player's ghost.



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