recently discovered that there are more old movies in the disc shop next to his home, which is relatively not so famous. So I picked a few indiscriminately.
One of them is "Brief Encounter". After reading it yesterday, I have some thoughts and write it down.
The film is about the daily life of a housewife, Laura, and that she goes to the city to buy food once a week (the Second World War has just ended, probably the British material is still relatively scarce) with extra time to watch a movie, to borrow a book, Or go on a tea date with friends, and then catch the evening train home. As for the family, there is a considerate husband and two naughty and lively children.
Such an ordinary, regular, day-to-day life, until one day, at the station, a grain of soot blows into her eyes. It wasn't just her eyes that blew into her eyes, it might also be her heart. Because the doctor, Alec, happened to be waiting for the bus.
Due to chance, Laura and Alec quickly met. Although their trains were going in different directions, they all came to the city once a week. Everything was ready, and the story happened naturally.
The screenwriter Noel Coward is a playwright. He used Laura's memories to flashback and wrote a lot of inner monologues and dialogues between two people. When you hear those monologues and dialogues, you will know how amazing and beautiful the words are. Just like this, the screenwriter wrote their feelings purely and beautifully, full of hesitant and reserved implicitness, and the torment of the indispensable moral sense. They were naturally together, and later they had to be separated. It's just a hug, arm in arm, kissing, if extramarital love can be so sentimentally, and stop at courtesy, it will only add to the melancholy.
Besides, this film has a bright ending.
The husband actually found something wrong with Laura, so there was such a conversation at the end.
When Laura recalled that she couldn't control her and started crying, the husband went up and hugged Laura's
husband: You have been far away from us.
Laura: Yes
husband: Welcome back.
The movie is over, and Laura should have returned to a normal, regular, day-to-day life.
After watching the movie, you may think that this relationship has nothing to do with morality, but it may hurt the one you love.
What makes me love this movie is not their love affair, but the rich details. Those details make you slow down and calm down to look at the black and white images from 60 years ago and seek those moments.
Some moments coincide with your memory, and you realize that the treasure of your broomstick is also the common emotion of many people:
when you want a lot of quiet time to think about a person, you usually ignore you At this time, the external world suddenly becomes connected to you. It may be work, a lot of work keeps you busy, or someone wants to talk to you and keep talking, and every word makes you desperate.
When you and whoever is going to break up, maybe it’s the end of the world, time, even if you tick every second and every minute, it still goes too fast, and those vehicles are always on time, as if they are never late. Then she Turn around and leave. Say goodbye so absolutely. You look at your back and start to imagine that she will appear in front of you again, telling you that she doesn't want to leave. However, in the end her voice just appeared in your phone, saying that she had arrived safely.
Who is Noel Coward?
Because of this movie, I started searching Google for information on screenwriter noel coward. There was very little information in Chinese. From my poor English, it seemed to be a famous British playwright, but there was no translated work.
I am very happy that I did not miss this movie, and I regret that I cannot know more about this screenwriter.
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