middle-aged and elderly single women who love to read

Kristian 2022-04-20 09:02:54

In many movies I have seen, middle-aged and elderly women who love to read are usually either widows or never married. In short, they are all single, and they are not ordinary singles. Chun can develop into her husband's ambiguous object) grams themselves. This movie is really good, but the film is set in a small town with pleasant scenery, with sea breeze, old house, women and children in beautiful skirts, gentlemen in neat suits, and staggered parties (it feels very Austin-like). beautiful. The decoration style of the bookstore is very petty, especially since it also sells postcards, which is more like the style of the bookstore now. If it also sells coffee drinks or something, I will think it is a store on Pingjiang Road. Anyway, the bookstore is decorated like that. Sorry to call yourself a bookstore. When I was young, I would have been bewitched by such beautiful scenery and imagined that I would open such a beautiful bookstore, but now I am old and I find that I have less and less money to buy books in the bookstore, so I think it is very Ordinary, not much that impresses me.

First of all, I don't quite understand why opening a bookstore is so difficult, and I don't understand the villain's motives very well, and I don't get the staleness of the small town. Isn't there a lot of people going to the bookstore at the beginning? It seems that everyone is not very resistant to reading books. But the non-stop gossip of the town residents still speaks volumes about the characteristics of the town. Secondly, a gentlemen who has not been in contact with the outside world for many years seems to have had a secret entanglement with the female villain when he was young. In short, he was hurt. He waited until his gray temples finally met the heroine and opened his heart. The heroine gave him courage , Unexpectedly, he died unexpectedly at the door of the house. No matter how you think about such a plot, it feels very deliberate. The courage that the film seems to be reminded of, I can't really feel it from the heroine. Maybe it's because such stories have become very popular in recent years. There are no particularly moving details in the popular plot. In short, I think it's good, just generally good.

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  • Conner 2022-04-22 07:01:56

    A little boring, but the story is good.

  • Maxwell 2022-04-23 07:05:58

    It has the charm of British movies, and the important things happen in the details. I watched it for Bill Nighy, and I wasn't disappointed at all, especially in the afternoon tea scene between the old man and Florence, those subtle movements, words, and pauses were absolutely incredible. Patricia Clarkson also has a few very good scenes, and Emily Mortimer does a good job in awkward scenes too haha. In terms of plot, the second half is completely unexpected, but it makes people hope that this movie will fall into a cliché, so that I can feel more at ease. In addition: the celebrity party in the Gamart estate, the old money pretending to be spring breeze is actually extremely rude, and the greasiness of speculators who only spend their time on people who are in their favor, very real; "Hurricane Jamaica" 》I borrowed it from the library in the past few years, and it has been a shadow for children since then, but I am very good at being weird like Christine; I have always agreed with the very American principle of "don't work with asshole", But now I feel that the precepts of guarding against villains are more important in Chinese wisdom.

The Bookshop quotes

  • [first lines]

    Narrator: She told me once: "When we read a story, we inhabit it; the covers of the books are like a roof and four walls: a house." She, more than anything else in the world, loved the moment when you've finished a book and the story keeps playing like the most vivid dream in your head.

    [seagulls cawing]

  • Florence Green: What else do people think the old house could be used for? Why have they done nothing about it in the past seven years? There were birds nesting in it. Half the tiles were off the roof and it stank of rats. Wouldn't it be better to fill the place with books for people to look at?

    Mr. Keble: I read before going to sleep, and usually drift off to the Land of Nod by about the third page.

    Florence Green: So you see? Don't you realize how useful books can be?