A commoner's epic

Alessia 2022-03-04 08:01:38

The painting style is very beautiful and comfortable to look at, especially the picture of the male protagonist riding a bicycle, which has the feeling of "A Beautiful Life" and "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily".
Combining the daily life of the common people with the background of the times skillfully, it reflects the fate of the little people in the big era. It is just too loyal to the original comics, and the dramatic tension is not enough. If the love line of the male and female protagonists can be made to twists and turns, and the male protagonist is added. Defending the home and the country on the battlefield (experiencing the test of life and death) makes the story a little bit more heartwarming, and it will definitely make the film more influential.
This film is positioned as a non-family fun, so it is necessary to strengthen the plot, and adult audiences also need strong plot stimulation. If you just read a plain and beautiful book, it is better to read the original comics. As for cartoons, you still have to have a little imagination. If you don’t have enough imagination, you can make up for it with stories. Otherwise, you will waste such good production ability. It’s a pity that you have technology but no content.
By the way, the fly in the ointment is that the heroine's dubbing is too old and not good enough!
Watching this film is like reading an old prose while drinking coffee on the balcony under the setting sun at dusk.

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Ethel & Ernest quotes

  • [first lines]

    Raymond Briggs: [voice over] There was nothing extraordinary about my Mum and Dad, nothing dramatic, no divorce or anything, but they were my parents and I wanted to remember them by doing a picture book. It's a bit odd really, having a book about my parents up there in the best seller list among all the football heroes and cookbooks. They'd be proud of that, I suppose, or rather probably embarrassed too. I'd imagine they'd say, "It wasn't like that," or, "How can you talk about that?" Well, I have, and this is their story.

  • [last lines]

    Raymond Briggs: [with Jean, looking at the full grown pear tree in Ethel and Ernest's back yard] I grew it from a pip.