Telling the stories of the British people

This year's Best Screenplay nominee for the Olympics, Mike Lee's work "Another Year", is the one I would pick out from the sea of ​​​​die and watch first. The four seasons come one after another, and the narrative is calm and unpretentious. Mike Lee is known as the director who tells the story of the British people. Compared with the other film I love, the most famous Victorian film with rich costumes and strict etiquette. , Old Man Li's "Another Year", "Secrets and Lies", and "Worry-Free" describe the life of ordinary people in contemporary Britain in a non-exaggerated manner. There are no surprises, and problems come one after another. The core of his films is the common emotional experience of human beings. Mike Lee famously said: I have not seen ordinary people who have no problems. In the play, Leslie Manville played the haggard, chattering, neurotic, and neurotic senior beautiful woman Mary, who was so much that she could startle herself, and she was so lonely that she should at least be nominated for the best supporting actress.

The film is divided into four seasons, spring, summer, spring and autumn, and screenshots of one year in many years. Geologist Tom and psychiatrist Jerry and his wife are the prime fruit trees in the four seasons. They conform to the seasons, with deep roots and blossoms. They are trivial and warm. Apart from their respective jobs, the two work together in the small garden and drink tea together under the porch. , Guess if son Joe has a girlfriend, entertain friends together, attend funerals of relatives together, be together peacefully... Stable aura and family atmosphere, attracting many panic souls who have nowhere to escape to live and warm, such as Jerry Colleague Mary...the family is the center of a small ecology. When Mary was young, she squandered her beauty and years. When she was middle-aged, everything was desolate. It was her reassurance that she came to Jerry's house for tea and dinner. , crying, staying overnight, she even fell in love with Joe, who she watched grow up, she said to Joe, how old do you think I look? Give me a call, when are we going out for a drink! The vicissitudes of life of the middle-aged girl is very terrifying. Seeing that Joe has a girlfriend Katie, Joe is so disappointed and frustrated that he can't extricate himself, and his words have no dignity. Because of this, she was expelled from this warm family, and she lost her only shelter. There is a bottom line to tolerance, and the bottom line is that the life of the shelter cannot be destroyed. Leslie Manville played a studio girl in Mike Lee's other film, Secrets and Lies. "Secrets and Lies" has a stronger story than "Another Year". There is a bottom-level old woman similar to Mary, played by Brenda Blasian, with the same girly voice and love-hate relationship. The innocence, the feelings that are always ready in the embarrassed life. Brenda Blasian's brother is a successful and loving photographer. He loves to make a mess of the life he brought up. His sister loves his barren wife and his mean niece. The women he loves hate each other. Women in sorrow often hate women. Leslie Manville's role is limited and there is not so much room for development. She is a bystander, but the glimpse of the desolate life is also a performance.

British humour is one of the reasons why I follow British films so much. At the beginning of "Another Year", Jerry asked the patient: From one to ten, what is your happiness index? Patient: 1. Jerry said: Good, high upside. Joe's best friend is getting married, and his parents ask him when it's your turn. He, who doesn't have a girlfriend, said, "Wednesday." Mary said, when do we go to XX Park for a bike ride, we haven't been there for a long time. Joe says he hasn't been there since the steam locomotive was invented in 1814. They don't laugh when they talk like this, but the humor is warm and can be felt through the screen.

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