The famous British actors are dazzling

Josefa 2022-04-21 09:02:21

When traveling, you can often see elderly tourists. Most of them are retired, doing nothing, an outsider attitude, enjoying the vacation life with familiarity. Who are they? Why travel halfway across the globe and all you do is take a book and sit on the beach all day?

solved this doubt. Maybe they are just trying to repair a 40-year-old marriage full of holes, maybe to find a boyfriend they loved when they were young, maybe to meet a romantic and passionate exotic, or maybe to move at a low price Operation. Escaping that rainy island country means escaping the pity of relatives, escaping cold phone banking services, and escaping embarrassing, biting troubles. While they defected to the sunshine and enthusiasm, they also had to endure the reality of noise, chaos, and difficulty in communicating with the locals.

It's pretty much an older version of Eat, Pray, and Love, a Western dream of self-redemption using travel, only lighter and more comical. The biggest surprise came from a group of British diamond veteran actors who brought a dazzling group show. Think of these uplifting names and their stories-filled faces: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson. Behind every face, there is a story.

This time, they are no longer the noble ladies in Downton Abbey, nor the lonely middle-aged rock stars in "Love Actually", nor the white-haired Bond girls in the "007" movie. They are just a group of elderly poor people from England. After retirement, they embarked on a journey to the mysterious ancient country of India with a limited budget and their own goals. The advertising campaign for this Indian foreign-related hotel, which claims to specialize in "the elderly and the beautiful", is full of tempting words such as "mysterious and exotic". Perhaps, it reminded them of the glory days of the "Empire on which the Sun Never Sets" in colonial times, although they soon discovered that was not the case.

Conflict, fusion and exchange between British culture and Indian civilization are another topic of films outside the lives of the elderly. In the film, it is very interesting to show the relationship between the UK and India. People can't help but think that after the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, the Queen's pranked face was kindly added with lines: "Look at you people... these countries were originally mine!" India used to be the most important colony of the United Kingdom. One, from which numerous commercial and trade exchanges were born, as well as numerous literature and art based on this background. In the film, the Brits walk to the land with self-deprecation, and after a conflict, the two civilizations get along in another way.

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  • 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.