Life is a process of reading and writing
read to learn
writing to record
And books can testify to eternal life
- 84 Charing Cross Street
Some time ago, a friend collected letters on WeChat. After a long absence, I wanted to relive this kind of romance on the tip of a pen. When I was looking through my previous letters, I suddenly thought of this movie and the calendar on those pages. Impressed by purpose.
"84 Charing Cross Street", known as "the Bible for book lovers", whether it is the original book or the film based on the original book, the story about letters and books told is inconceivable romantic literature and art.
I really do, I have revisited this movie countless times. I think anyone who loves books will probably like this movie.
°Even if people grow old, that touch of warmth will last forever
She is a poor writer who is crazy about books and lives in New York, USA; he is a gentleman, old-fashioned, elegant and erudite dedicated clerk in a second-hand bookstore in London, England, because of an "advertising" in a magazine, a letter sent by Helen " Ask for a letter." The two began to have an intersection.
Since then, this communication on the tip of the pen, separated by many straits, has lasted for twenty years.
Through their letters, they got to know each other, the other person's completely different character from their own, and another life.
Helen's writing is outstanding, humorous, sharp and direct, and has a little temper of her own.
She likes English literature, and she loves books like crazy. She is overjoyed when she receives the books she wants. When she reads bad books and "pirated books", she will be furious; ; She is often unadorned and devoted to "books", but sometimes she can also be exquisite and fashionable...
She also has a heart that is completely kind and considerate to friends.
And Frank, he was always well-dressed and neat, with a gentle smile, polite, no matter his work or replying to letters, he was always straight-forward, old-fashioned and stubborn, but always trustworthy.
Everything starts with books, and although they live under different skies, they also begin to know and cherish each other.
They are all so talented, love books, and have their own opinions on literature.
Helen liked to read John Dunn's sermons, and liked him when he said, "All mankind is a book, and when a man dies, it is not chapters deleted, but translated into a better language, and every Every chapter must be translated. God employs translators, and some chapters are translated by age, some by disease, some by war, some by justice...and the hand of God will glue our scattered pages together. In In that library, all the books will be open to face each other."
They have known each other for a long time, and they have never stopped communicating in letters. They cherish each other, and they are the best confidants.
He can often guess her mind before she makes a list of books, and find the best version for her in advance;
And she, at a time when Britain's economy was at its worst with food shortages, kept sending gifts for him and his colleagues' families.
Regardless of the wind and moon, what they have is a lasting and precious friendship that will never change in this lifetime.
Above friendship, below love, even though they haven't even shaken hands, souls have always walked side by side.
"If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross one day, please give me a kiss, I owe it a lot."
Their friendship became eternal because of the letters.
Every word in the letter became a story that we have been paying tribute to and hoped for.
Even today, many years later, those words with warmth will make us feel warm, lucky, and satisfied.
The letters that traveled through time and space have already told everything for them.
"In this world, it's not surprising to encounter sex or love. What's rare is to encounter understanding."
Although we have never met, we have long been accustomed to each other's souls.
The mood and daily life contained in those letters, those eloquent words, have long been integrated into each other's life and into our life.
Those words have already crossed distance, space, and soul.
Maybe this is what this movie wants to tell us, the so-called most extravagant romance is every word I write down carefully as I spread out the letter, and you, with anticipation, are waiting to read the letter and reply.
And those distances and waiting are the best.
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