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Roel 2022-04-21 09:03:38
after watching
A very beautiful story about life, from Ernest and Ethel's meeting, falling in love, getting married and having children, to the end of life, it shows us one by one in the form of comics. The life of the two people is plain and happy. Marriage and family are full of warmth, philosophy and...
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Roel 2022-04-23 07:04:57
Among the dust, above the stars
The small daily life under the war, outlines the life of an ordinary family in London with a warm background. In the past century, with the development of science and technology, the changes in people's thoughts and lives around the world are actually not much different. The most impressive picture...
Harry Collett
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[first lines]
Raymond Briggs: [voice over] There was nothing extraordinary about my Mum and Dad, nothing dramatic, no divorce or anything, but they were my parents and I wanted to remember them by doing a picture book. It's a bit odd really, having a book about my parents up there in the best seller list among all the football heroes and cookbooks. They'd be proud of that, I suppose, or rather probably embarrassed too. I'd imagine they'd say, "It wasn't like that," or, "How can you talk about that?" Well, I have, and this is their story.
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[last lines]
Raymond Briggs: [with Jean, looking at the full grown pear tree in Ethel and Ernest's back yard] I grew it from a pip.
