The film begins with Miss Helen's visit to Mark's Bookstore, which is actually the end of the story. Helen finally came to Charing Street in England, but what she saw was indeed a dilapidated and closed bookstore.
Then the movie enters the theme, telling the story of Helen and Mark's bookstore from the beginning. As an ordinary American writer who is poor but has a very fulfilling inner world, Helen has a true temperament, straightforwardness, sincerity, and often rude words. A bookstore where she often buys books is located at 84 Charing Cross Street in the United Kingdom. An antique bookstore with out-of-print books, the manager of the bookstore is an English gentleman named Frank with a suave personality and a naturally endearing sense of humor. As Helen's correspondence with the bookstore increased and she sent them thoughtful gifts at Christmas, she developed friendships with all the bookstore staff, especially Frank. Their names for each other became more and more intimate, and the new content started from only talking about books, and later involved their own life. They began to realize that the other party had become a very important friend and confidant of their own. Helen even felt that Frank was the only one who understood him. And Frank's affection for Helen, a prudent English gentleman, was told by his wife after his death that Frank was always especially happy when he received a letter from Helen. His wife told us that she often envied Helen, that she and Frank had a common language in literature and life, but she herself often couldn't understand her husband's feelings about a book. In the latter part of the film, the director simply let the two communicate the content of the letter in the form of face-to-face dialogue. This situation makes us feel that although the two have not met in a real sense, they have fully known each other spiritually.
Helen and Frank didn't meet after all, which is not enough for us to regret, because people can't always bond with people who are in harmony with their hearts, and those who stay by their side are often the most suitable partners based on life, maybe they don't understand so well. You, not so romantic, are always a warm harbor for life.
Excerpt: This movie is full of emotion. Whether it is Helian Hanff's cherishing and caring for books, or the faint sympathy between Helian and Frank, or Helian's caring and caring for the bookstore staff, or the bookstore staff and Frank's family for Hailian. Lian's feelings of gratitude and admiration, these feelings are intertwined and integrated in the works, it is difficult to separate any kind of feeling to appreciate and feel alone. It's the complexity and blending of this feeling that makes this movie indescribably attractive, but it also makes people wonder where its real appeal lies.
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