This review has nothing to do with the film itself. Statement first. It's a casual talk about a male protagonist and another girl.
In mid-June, I went on a trip to the seaside near York, and strolled along the small stone road in the city center. My friend tried on clothes in a clothing store. I took the card distributed by the store and printed the poster of the movie. How should I put it, the handsome profile of the male protagonist pointed directly to the heart of the North of England, where the streets were full of fat tourists and fried fish.
The last time I was so impressed by the chicness of a British man was in "One Day". In the first and last shots, Dexter, a wealthy college student played by Jim Sturgess, was wearing a black suit, his shirt collar was loosened, his hands were in his pockets, and his head was smiling. Looking at Emma Molly's bouncing back, the street lamps in the early morning in Scotland light up one by one. He turned his head away with his hands in his suit, tossing his hair. This kind of clean and unrestrained temperament, only British men have. Going a little further west, the Irish seem to feel inferior all the time, and I always think that Americans are much worse than Europeans in terms of demeanor and temperament. Going east, the delicate facial features of the French and Italians, the cardigans, scarves, black-rimmed glasses, and beards over summer shirts are always rubbed with a bit of artificiality.
And I've seen Sam Claflin movies before. He played "Love Rosie" with Lily Collins, a typical chick flick for high school girls, and I gave up without seeing the ending. There is also the missionary Phillip Swift in Pirates of the Caribbean 4, who fell in love with the little mermaid and finally sank into the sea with the kiss of the mermaid. Death and immortality are not much different. Now watching this "Me before you", Sam is wearing a linen shirt with broad shoulders, as if he is always smiling, but he is a smiling and melancholy person. Reminds me of a boy who I met in the company's afterwork a few times, graduated from the best engineering school in France, came to an investment bank for an internship like many boys who studied mathematics, likes to wear tweed suits, and is very indifferent to people. It's weird, but as soon as everyone takes pictures, the corners of his mouth are always raised, with deep dimples. He always smiles so happily in the photos, so you think he's actually unhappy. I found in him: 1. He is very suitable for working in investment banking. 2. He's happy when he's unhappy. Like Mark Baum.
Go to Youtube and search for Sam Claflin, and you'll see a video of him and Lily Collins shot by Net-a-porter in 2014, when Sam had just been married for a year, and Lily was single then and now. The first shot of the grey video shows Lily lying on Sam's lap as he strokes her hair, with the ring on her ring finger running between them. His wife Laura is beautiful, but she is the kind of beauty that has seen epiglottis. "When I met Laura, I knew I was going to marry her, and she reminded me of my mom, who I was looking for," Sam said. Does Laura know? I don't know what she will think. I probably wouldn't be happy if a man married me because I reminded him of his mother.
Lily is another type of girl. She is an American, lively and laughing. In the video, she has short curly hair that covers her profile. Her facial features are childish, but her demeanor is very sexy. She sits cross-legged in an oversized sweater and jeans. She is reminiscent of Sabina played by Lena Olin in "Prague Spring". She has similar features and personality. In twenty years, she will probably be such a maverick black-haired and dark-eyed woman with a face Forever stubborn, playful and a touch of childishness. In the video, she is petite and can't sit on the window sill. Sam hugs her, and she hugs his neck naturally, which is very intimate. They both dance, laugh, walk shoulder to shoulder, if that's not love.
In the video, Lily said that Sam was an unexpected gentleman, an old-school British man with a handsome appearance and a conservative heart. Of course he is. He was born and grew up in the seaside town of Norfolk in eastern England (taking a look at the results of this Brexit vote, Sam's hometown of Norwich was the only one in the county that chose to stay in the EU), and his favorite hobby as a child was playing football. Accountant, mother is a teacher, family of four boys. He's not a trendy London boy like Fudge. So of course, I will get married early, have children, and choose a woman like my mother, not Lily, who is unpredictable.
Sam and Laura, whose sons were born last December, live in a modest suburb of chiswick in the west London suburbs. As a first-time father, he may be busy being a father, so he doesn't think much of Lily. Again, I think of the many British men around me (mostly in the company), many of whom are handsome, but all seem to live plainly, think they are nothing more than ordinary, and never snob for their appearance (in fact, the British I don't know how to snob), work meticulously, come to work with a copy of the Financial Times in the morning, eat sandwiches, fish and chips, all kinds of beans for lunch, there is only a wooden picture frame on the desk, which is a photo of a pair of children, He wears suits and leather shoes all year round, with a single style. From Monday to Thursday, he wears a light blue or white shirt with a dark tie. On Fridays, he wears a woolen suit. The French men who are in love with my sister are too different. The furthest vacation I went to the so-called "French Riviera", Italy and the Canary Islands, came back like a lobster.
As the title says, this is not a movie review. May I meet many, many Sam Claflins on the Jubliee line tomorrow at work on Monday.
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