Augie is a small shopkeeper of a tobacco shop, and the writer Paul is one of his regular customers. Since his wife died in the street shooting, Paul has never written anything again, deep and melancholy. It seems that Augie and Paul are both such people. As men, they are both smokers.
Until one day Augie showed Paul the masterpiece of his life. Augie has insisted on taking a photo of a street corner every day for 14 years, no matter it is windy or rainy, every photo is almost the same street scene, but because With the span of time, the weight of history is revealed. The photos are either sunny or rainy and foggy. More than 4,000 photos show the history of a street corner. The viewer is shocked by the author’s tenacity and perseverance. Experience the subtle etching skills of time. Paul was even more surprised to see his wife in one of the photos. Facing the sad glance in this historical scroll, Paul cried, which awakened what had been asleep in his heart for a long time, and he went back and started writing again.
This is a chatty movie, without plot tension, and divided into five paragraphs, interconnected and independent into chapters.
The other two paragraphs tell the story of a pair of father and son and a pair of mother and daughter respectively. The little boy Thomas saved Paul’s life on the street, so Paul invited Thomas to stay at home for a few days. In fact, this little guy took the money from a group of robbers and took refuge at the Paul’s house. The unknown insurance recommended him to Augie was a boy, and then he made a big mistake and soaked all of Augie's wealth-valuable tobacco. The light of warmth and humanity flooded the movie. Augie and Paul finally helped Thomas and his biological father to recognize him. Thomas used the money to compensate Augie-a full five thousand dollars, and Augie gave it to him. The old lover, the poor woman whose poor daughter was taking drugs, could have ignored her, because her betrayal had hurt him so deeply.
How to weigh the smoke? It is as if someone tried to weigh the soul, put a cigarette on the balance, and then flick the ashes on the balance, the difference is the weight of the smoke. This is the clever idea of a clever guy who introduced tobacco to the UK. As a fable-like story, this mystery also allows us to interpret the life meaning of Augie and Paul. As a member of the common people, they have compromised or given up. , But they survived, and they became ordinary heroes in the ordinary story.
At the end of the movie is Augie's Christmas story. I will write a Christmas column for the New York Times. Augie dedicated his story. That is actually the origin of his camera and the origin of his more than 4,000 photos.
A thief once visited Augie’s tobacco shop. When he was chasing him, Augie found the thief’s wallet. At Christmas, Augie found the thief’s house according to the clues in the wallet, but there was only a blind grandma in the house, so they After a happy Christmas together, Auggie bought a sumptuous Christmas dinner. The grandmother treated him as his grandson, and Auggie played very well. Until the end, Auggie saw a bunch of cameras in the bathroom, which were obviously stolen goods. , So Augie took one of them with him when he left. When he regretted his theft and wanted to return it, the grandmother was already empty. Regret and ashamed were buried in Augie's heart, but it also contributed to the birth of a great photographic work.
year 2004
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