An old movie, a story that can only be staged in the old days of the last century, in the interweaving of words, light and shadow, it once again strikes people gently.
In the movie, Helene Hanff finally came to the London she wanted, and walked through the streets to the bookstore that sold second-hand books, Marks & Co., located at 84 Charing Street.
It's just that the bookshelves that used to be full of books are empty, and the shop assistants who communicated with her and exchanged gifts have all left.
Still, she faced the air and told Frank that the clerk who had picked out the books for her herself had finally come here.
In real life, Helene's life was always accompanied by poverty, and she was not lucky enough to scrape together a plane ticket to London, so her famous book reads:
"If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross, please give me a kiss, I owe her a lot..."
The regrets in life are irreparable, but the ending of the movie is still very gratifying.
I think that maybe the screenwriter can't bear to let Helene and Frank never have the chance to "meet", so I reduced some regrets a little bit to realize Helene's dream and thousands of readers' dreams.
This old movie is rarely mentioned.
But the movie is very good, even if the picture quality of the found film is not clear, and even there is a little mottle in the picture, it seems to be more in line with this story that happened in the old times, with an old but warm feeling, let I was intoxicated in it and didn't know where to go.
The charm of the film lies in the complete presentation of the life fragments scattered in the letters in the book. The quirky Helene, the passionate Aries girl, you can see her walking around in a hurry, getting the things she doesn't like. The book club replies "questioning" angrily, as if to smash the typewriter.
Then there's the mature Frank, played by Anthony Hopkins, the once charming "murderer" who fulfilled my imagination of this English gentleman.
Also, the movie is really a "visual feast" for book lovers. Whether it's Helene's messy room full of books, or the quaint book wall full of British temperament in the London bookstore, it's like a quiet but all-encompassing small world. beauty.
Helene in New York couldn't buy the English literature he wanted to read in the whole of New York City, so he wrote to second-hand bookstores in distant London to find the books he wanted. Later, they were no longer the relationship between businessmen and consumers, but revealed the message of life in their hearts. and exchange gifts.
This way of buying books is really enviable, with some classical subtleties, such as "who sent brocade books in the cloud", some expectations, some elegant.
This is a longing that has been stretched by distance.
I imagined those letters flowing between the two continents across the sea. The tacit understanding and understanding between each other increased day by day, and they became the most distant but closest friends.
The purest emotion I can imagine between people is Helene and Frank, who have never been able to become partners, but two infinitely the same souls, yet so beautiful.
This distant companionship, in itself, is enough to make people appreciate the kind arrangement of fate.
In fact, the content of the letter is nothing more than explaining the name of the book purchased, comments on the book, plus some details from each other's life, the presidential election, the queen's coronation, as if talking with old friends about the triviality and freshness of their lives.
But such communications continued for two decades.
Behind such ordinary words is the care that has lasted for 20 years, because it was once blocked by the long distance, and was once disturbed by the precarious world affairs.
Some people say that between Helene and Frank, "is another translation of love".
For me, it doesn't matter if it's love or not, maybe they have fantasized about each other's appearance, and look forward to meeting one day, but everything can't compare to this distant tacit understanding itself, how will Frank be pregnant? Wrapping the books for Helene with tenderness, and how Helene opens these books with excitement, these are very beautiful parts, and they are also distances that do not need to be broken.
They did not change their life trajectories for each other, but only conveyed a secret tacit understanding with those silent words.
This story is touching, because it is pure, beautiful and sad, like a poem, it stays silent on a certain page of the poetry collection, and occasionally the wind comes and blows the page, and then we can see this poem, and our hearts are Quiet, quiet and a little sad.
We need it. In such an era where hot spots are staged every day, there are too many emotions and too much diluted love and hate.
And this kind of aimless feeling is extraordinarily beautiful.
The special emotion brewed in time, such as the white moonlight at night, even if you can't embrace it, but it comes to your holy life, lightly shines on your heart, and everything is enough.
If there is any regret, it only needs to be like the poem in the movie where Frank mistakenly thinks a female guest is Helene and returns to his desk in disappointment to read a poem, whispering softly when no one is there, everything is just a dream.
But, I, being poor, have only my dreams
I have spread my dreams under your feet
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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But the picture quality is slightly worse
Looking for a high-definition movie, thank you~
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