Brief Encounter

Rodrigo 2022-04-19 09:02:33

Sula has a happy family: a respectful husband and a very lovely son. She lives on the outskirts of London, and takes the train to the market near Milderford station every Thursday to buy a week's worth of supplies. However, on a Thursday evening, Sulla, who was waiting in the station waiting room as usual, was fascinated by a grain of coal. When she saw it, when she was helpless, a middle-aged male doctor who was waiting for another bus to return home warmly and dexterously relieved her pain. At this time a week later, Laura accidentally met him again at the station snack bar. After several wonderful encounters, Laura's mood was quietly changing: on Thursday, she hurried to the place where she last met. . The two went for a walk and boating in the park together. An indescribable pleasure filled Laura's heart. Laura couldn't help herself. Alec took him to the house of a friend who did not return. When the stream was about to break through the bank of reason, the door suddenly rang - the master came back. As Laura scurried through the back door, she felt it was all over; she hesitated to tell her husband. Thursday came again, and she was in town as usual and met him again at the station snack bar. Also suffering from emotional entanglement, he told her that he was about to leave for Africa to socialize and practice medicine. They drank tea thoughtfully, until Alec's train came in, and Laura looked hopelessly at the passing train and returned home with a sense of loss, her caring husband greeted her with the look of knowing and Uninformed.
The film depicts two people who are not good at disturbing extramarital affairs.
During World War II, two strangers met at the station, and a brief but fiery affair broke out. They are all middle-aged, and both belong to the middle class, but their relationship is like a storm. Laura has a happy family. On a Thursday night, she was waiting in the station waiting room as usual. Coal dust caught her eye, and the middle-aged male doctor who was waiting for another bus to return home warmly and deftly took care of her. Pain relieved. At this time a week later, the two accidentally met again, so they gradually increased the chance of contact, and then a relationship developed, but troubles followed.

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  • Stephon 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    I always feel that the aesthetic concepts of Westerners are incapable of being subtle and delicate, especially the reliability of the heroine's first-person narrative is questionable.

  • Kasey 2022-03-29 09:01:06

    A lot of inner monologues and voiceovers, and the gentle and elegant written lines of the 1940s are matched with the emotional piano sound, which is quite beautiful. Not being able to say goodbye in an open and honest way is also abusive.

Brief Encounter quotes

  • Myrtle Bagot: I'm sorry, my license does not permit me to serve alcohol out of hours, that's final. You wouldn't want to get me in trouble, would you?

    Bill, First Soldier: Just give us that chance, lady. That's all we ask. Just give us the chance.

  • Myrtle Bagot: Beryl, ask Mr. Godby to come here for a moment, will you?

    Beryl Walters, Tea Room Assistant: Yes, Mrs. Bagot.

    Bill, First Soldier: And who's he waiting to come?

    Myrtle Bagot: You'll soon see! Coming here, cheeking me!

    Johnnie, Second Soldier: Come on, here, mother, be a pal.

    Myrtle Bagot: I'll give you mother! You saucy upstart!

    Bill, First Soldier: Who you callin' an upstart?

    Myrtle Bagot: You! And I'll trouble you get out of here double quick! Disturbing the customers and making a nuisance of yourselves.

    Johnnie, Second Soldier: Hey, where's the fire? Where's the fire?