O Henry's British sketch

Verlie 2022-01-13 08:03:43

When I mentioned the British sketches, I was full of eyes. This time I recommend the latest film Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day on EMULE, how an unemployed middle-aged maid who lived on the streets of England before World War II saved one in one day The love and life of the girl and herself, of course, the story is simple to tell, and you have to experience it only when you watch the film by yourself.
The film complies with the drama's very solid trinity rate. The story unfolds in one day and the location is LONDON.
Miss Pettigrew is a middle-aged working woman with a face full of vegetables and thin, rags and rags who have just been tried out for a week. She ran into a pianist male protagonist who had just come out of prison on her way and was full of clothes and opened her underwear. All flew away, it is really difficult. Miss's TITLE shows that Ms. P is unmarried at this time. As for whether she has never been married or why, here is the foreshadowing. By the way, Ms. P returned to the employment agency again. After being BS, she plucked up the courage and walked away with the business card of Miss D, the star on the table. Because a job was beckoning, she might not be hungry today.
As a result, when Miss D’s home is not stable, she needs to help her deal with the three men. The pianist A, the 19-year-old son of the theater predator B, and the resident hotel owner C. The order of appearance is BCA, so the text is inevitable. Boring. But EMMY ADAMS's silk nightdress + fur coat LOOK and charming look coupled with our ignorant and adaptable look is really a bit of retro flavor of that era. The comedy is full of accurate and funny calculations. What’s especially interesting is that when C found the cigarette butt left by A and was about to question, Ms. P snatched it and smoked and cursed, and Ms. D fell down on the steps to be aggrieved. The two women really cooperated perfectly. No wonder D I decided to appoint P as my social secretary. Even if I don’t know what this TITLE does, but others have their own, they should have one. A famous quote from Ms. P: Despair gives people the power to dare to do anything-I have never smoked a cigarette before. After that I went to the Fashion Show and saw a vintage lingerie show in the late 1930s. The THANK YOU GIFT that Miss D gave to Ms. P was an elegant silk scarf. P told Mr. J, the silk scarf designer without knowing it. This is the most beautiful thing I have ever worn, and J couldn't help but see the footnote of a twilight love here.

The two parallel main lines of the story are the love between Miss D and Ms. P. For young girls who come to live in big cities, the temptation will always be there. A woman like Miss D who circulates among several men is probably beaten to death by the name of a slut. The D created by EMMY ADAMS is as innocent and sexy as Monroe. On the one hand, he dreams of using his figure to climb up, but on the other hand, he hesitates in the face of true love. The protagonist’s confession has been praised on DOUBAN, but I still have to quote: I will play for you today, D, and the rest of your life if you marry me, never if you not. The mental journey has changed little by little, from hesitating to being sentimentally about to be separated to the epiphany pointed out by Ms. P at the time of the final airstrike. (The male lead deliberately arranged for her to sing IF I DON'T CARE, which is a ballad that ignited the flame of love that was about to extinguish) happily in the process of fighting between the male lead and C and did not forget to confirm whether his marriage offer is valid. , Young is really joy.

Ms. P's love is as low-key as her personally. Although the drama is like me, she guessed the plot in a panic as early as the first dialogue between her and J, but she didn't dare to confirm it. After meeting several times in the following day, every time Ms. P had the opportunity to say a few famous words and show her integrity and dignity, she immediately distinguished herself from a group of fame and fortune-seeking mad bees and butterflies. The fun part is that Ms. P actually didn’t eat anything for a day and tried her best to get close to the food, but she failed every time. When she finally talked about how to glue a period of false feelings together and make clothes for others, For a while, she was emptily unable to express. When WAITER brought a large plate of things in front of her, she could only say NOT NOW. The inner struggle is evident. The love agreement with Mr. J also gradually unfolded in a short period of dialogue, and if you write it here, it will be spoiled. Anyway, it reflects the concept of love of experienced people, simple and persistent. Finally, after bidding farewell to the LOVE BIRD pair of D and the hero, they sadly returned to the station and returned to the starting point, only to find that someone was already looking for themselves, and best of all, there was an invitation for breakfast, and all future breakfasts.


After that, the middle-aged version of the sparrow turned into a phoenix drama. Women still have to dress up, from homeless women to senior assistants in a blink of an eye, a bit of a "fair lady", but what remains unchanged is the praise for simplicity and morality. The structure of the whole story is exquisite, arranged with enough coincidences and a happy ending, just like the comedy love story in O Henry's novel. It is worth seeing. In this Qixi festival, I wish all lovers get married.

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day quotes

  • [after Delysia has refused to sing]

    Michael: She said no.

    Nick: What, and she does what you say?

    Michael: Never once, as a matter of fact, but that's not the point.

  • Guinevere Pettigrew: [regarding the oncoming war] I don't think I can bear it again.

    Joe Blumfield: Did you lose many?

    Guinevere Pettigrew: Just one. You?

    Joe Blumfield: Almost every school friend I had.