little adventure in the sunset

Rebeka 2022-04-20 09:01:44

The first shot is of a child wearing a cold hat playing on the side of the road, rolling around and making noise, the grass is very green, and then the camera gradually zooms in, pulls back to the heated room, and sees the quiet sitting In front of the desk, Evelyn (Judi Dench) who is helplessly waiting for the customer service clerk to answer the phone ※ (Douyou Xiaoban describes it better, see another film review: byebye, high heels). After living for a long time, I began to like to stay indoors with heating and cooling, not sun, not hot, not cold, comfortable. This room is called the comfort zone.

Remember the feeling of having fun every day when you were a kid?

Back then, the point of time was that every day was a new adventure.

This is an adventure story about a group of old people. Sometimes, the adventure is not the earth-shattering shock of turning over and being the master and willing to pull the emperor off his horse, but stretching out your hands and embracing the changes in your life, and maybe you can spare time in the middle to take a calm sip of black tea.

Destiny did not give a warm reminder beforehand, so they arranged their own little adventures for these uncles and aunts.

Evelyn has been a carefree housewife for decades. After her husband died, she left behind a lot of debt. She had to sell her house to India to retire. character of. (But Judi Dench's powerful aura still makes people think it's James Bond's M going to India for a vacation, okay). Evelyn's character is very pleasing, and the pleasing is too sense, too positive, so it doesn't look good, end. (Well, the implicit love scene with Douglas is still a bit moving.)

My favorite is the story line between Jean and Douglas.

Jean is neurotic, mean, repressed, complains a lot, has low self-esteem, and thinks the world owes her. When everyone went out to explore every day, Jean chose to stay in the hammock in the hotel garden. When the judge passed by, he hurriedly stopped the other party: I have been waiting for someone to rescue me from this predicament. However, your honor she had been waiting for said: I am gay. Jean returned to the room to lose her temper to Douglas after her failed confession. The more Douglas apologized, the more angry she became. It is the humiliation of being rejected and expressing wrong feelings, and it is also a deep resentment for her husband who clearly doesn't love her but is obsessed with loyalty and accommodates in every possible way.

In the end, Jean finally understood that no one wants to be a tragic heroine waiting for someone to save. She got on the rickshaw to the airport alone, and before leaving, she said to her husband, "We obviously don't love each other anymore, but we are just afraid of changing, so we are reluctant to be together. We all deserve (live) better.

(Penelope Wilton's drama is really good, so I want to find Jean to find your teeth, Douglas (Bill Nigy)'s English-style federal style is also very moving, especially he follows EvelyN, faintly meeting Drink afternoon tea, but the feelings are clear in the chest.) It is

worth living a better life without waiting for a certain day.

Graham came from a good family, followed a path that a good family should take, graduated from a prestigious school, and then served as a justice for decades. until the day of the show. He was preparing to attend a colleague's retirement party when he said: "I've been waiting for my turn. Then, at the party, he suddenly said: This is the day. From this day on, he retired, no longer lived according to the script written by his family or the world, and returned to India to find his first love and himself, who had been hiding in the past. In the end, I realized that I was the only one who couldn't let go for many years. Before leaving this world, he was finally freed from the prison of guilt, and found freedom like a bird that flew by.

If he forgives himself sooner, he won't have to wait for "the day", right? But forgiveness is only eligible for the victim. So it's so hard to forgive yourself?

As for the outright racist Muriel (Professor Maggie Smith), he has also changed a little bit. He understands that people of other skin colors are also "humans". This small step to take is indeed a lot of exercise. There are also two lonely hearts. The two old people will not say more. No matter what age, everyone has the right to pursue love.

Let's make a little noise, the line of Indian families is too cliché, okay? The scenes of young couples can be regarded as "toilet seats" to control the rhythm. The twist in Sunny's confession to his mother is too TVB, right? "There was a couple in this family who fought with their parents like this decades ago. Ya!" Although the mother insisted on getting her son to stand out because of her poor background, it also fits the character's personality, but immediately turning the page makes people feel that the screenwriter is in a hurry to get off work.

It is worth commending that the dialogue of the Indian actors accurately captures the way Indians speak. He used to work in an Indian company for summer vacation, and they are really good at making small things as big as sesame seeds gorgeous and high-sounding, such as killing a fly is "paving the way for more ambitious plans such as the establishment and expansion of hotel hygiene spaces. , and add brilliance to the prestige won by economic achievements in the future.” (The above text was copied from Wen Wei Po, describing Shen Jiu’s rise into the sky, and the tone of the two “digging” great powers is probably similar.)

Well, no more water. Going back to the movie, it would be too long to write any more.

The other day, I saw on the Internet that Zhang Manjuan was going to leave the Guanghua News and Culture Center to return to Taiwan. Before leaving, she gave reporters a small gift engraved with words. One of them was engraved with "Original Heart", which means "Don't forget the original heart" - if life is not known when The little adventure of game over suddenly, I hope I can remember the confidence and playful mood of getting up every morning when I was a child, and I have always been curious about the world, just like the golden flower that likes sunshine. (Haha well, although everyone doesn't want to say it, the official translation of marigold is marigold...)

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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel quotes

  • Douglas Ainslie: I invested our, well, my retirement money in our daughter's Internet company. She assured me that as soon as the startup actually, um, started up and the conversion from virtual to actual became sufficiently viable, then she'd be able to pay it all back.

    Evelyn: I'm not sure I understand what most of those words mean.

    Douglas Ainslie: Well, it turns out neither did she.

  • Evelyn: [about their new environment] Initially you're overwhelmed. But gradually you realize it's like a wave. Resist, and you'll be knocked over. Dive into it, and you'll swim out the other side.