As long as the bookstore is open, there will come a day when readers with clean or dirty fingers will come.
At the Shanghai Film Festival, whether it is "The Thief's Family" by Hirokazu Koreeda, a spiritual mentor of literary and artistic fans, or a topical work such as "Daytime Movie", or a visual blockbuster such as "Mission Impossible", all tickets are Was robbed early. This instead leaves room for a "small piece" that has received less attention. For example, this very boring and interesting "The Bookshop" (The Bookshop).
This slow-moving film gives people the feeling that you walk into a bookstore aimlessly, accidentally open a book you are not familiar with, but the more you read, the more addicted you become. After turning the last page, you feel like a lightning strike in your heart, and there is a slight pain that you have lost something. "Bookstore" is worth watching. It is not like those topical and eye-catching blockbusters that use the big stick of hormones to beat your nerves. Instead, it uses a soft story to restore peace and reason to you. Your paralyzed heart brings the sensibilities it had but forgotten.
"Small pieces" allow you to feel the temperature behind the film, while "large pieces" only allow one to touch a layer of cold plastic. Watching "big movies" is like sleeping with an incomparably huge inflatable doll, forcibly playing with false pleasure in inexplicable excitement; while watching "small movies", you can feel a kind of communication between people.
"Bookstore" is the kind of delicate work that can communicate with the audience. Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson's three powerful actors make this movie even more interesting. "Bookstore", like the characters in the film, exudes a charming classical temperament in every gesture. "Bookstore" is changed from Penelope Fitzgerald's original novel. It tells the story of a middle-aged "girl" Florence who lost her husband and returns to her hometown in Bisai, hoping to rediscover her by opening the only local bookstore. Vitality of life, and at the same time a solution to the longing for the deceased husband.
The story is set in a small English town in 1959. People there, from fishermen to bank executives, don't read much. According to their words, "generally they read before going to bed and fall asleep when they turn to the third page." There was only one Mr. Browndish, who was locked out of his house, and the only book lover in the town, and he had an astonishing habit when he read books, that he burned the pictures and descriptions of the authors on the pages, leaving only the books, because These pictures of his characters, these authors are often not worthy of the books they wrote, or their books are "not worth mentioning" at all.
Although Florence encountered many difficulties, took out loans, renovated old houses, and did heavy physical work alone, the bookstore eventually opened, and the number of people reading books kept increasing. The town has a new landmark and people have a new place to go. Florence uses her taste in book selection to quietly influence the people in the town.
This angered the local aristocrat, Mrs. Matt, who had initially hoped to convert the cottage into an arts center, but Florence's thriving bookstore thwarted her dream, which seemed to challenge her authority and affect her reputation.
There was a tug-of-war between the commoner women and the noble duchess because of this humble bookstore. The rest of the town's opinion of the bookstore, and their attitude towards Florence, was also because of the "undercurrents" she said imported books. Florence's bookstore is like a boulder thrown into a pond, causing long-lasting waves in this slow and peaceful town. The way the bookstore and Florence do things seems to have changed the magnetic field and gravity of the entire town, changed the relationship between people, and even changed the fate of some people.
Can Florence change the town with a bookstore? Can books be her weapon against the power of the aristocracy?
These are all interpretable extensions provided by "Bookstore", which are still unfinished and full of charm. "Bookstore" is adapted from a novel, and encountered the dilemma of text transcoding. When text is converted into video and pictures, a lot of information will be lost. After leaving the medium nature of text and books, the meaning is sometimes lost. The place to hang in the air, unable to decoded by someone.
As a movie, "Bookstore" has a sophisticated use of colors and exquisite scene scheduling. The film reveals a confident classical atmosphere, the narrative has no tricks, the characters are created patiently, there is no obvious climax in the plot, and the tension is not like Most of the videos are so sensational. That eloquent sense of rhythm is worth pondering because of the two books mentioned in the film. Bookstore still hopes to use the intertextual relationship between texts to create a sense of hierarchy in interpretation and expand space for metaphors.
The arrival of Florence, her bookstore has obviously affected two people in the town, one is a smart little girl Christine, and the other is a lonely gentleman Brandish. These two books, one is "Fahrenheit 451" by science fiction master Brad Bodley,
One is Nabokov's "Lolita".
"Fahrenheit 451" is about the transmission of knowledge, the prospect and thinking about power; in the future utopian world, books are forbidden objects, and the protagonist's duty as a firefighter is to burn books, which constitutes intertextuality with the Brandich in the film. And a girl let the firefighters enter the world of the "book clan". This group of people used endorsement as the only reason to live for generations. resistance to power. And "Lolita" talks about the taboo New Year's Eve love, spy on various social issues at that time from a deformed love entanglement,
The relationship between desire and repression is discussed, and the root of the tragedy between the hero and heroine is explored. Both books are about the relationship between people, people and education, the connection between knowledge. Undoubtedly, the two books not only build the relationship between the three main characters in the film, but also metaphorize the power relationship between the small town and the bookstore, the commoners and the nobles, women and men, children and adults. In the film, Florence won his favor by introducing "Fahrenheit 451" to the book lover Brandish, which impressed him, and even walked out of the castle for her and returned to the complex society.
Florence was hesitant to introduce "Lolita", she asked Brondig for advice, Brondig showed her love skillfully, and also told her the importance of courage. Florence understood the meaning of it, bought 250 copies of "Lolita" in one go, directly detonated the town, and had to ask the police for help to maintain order at the bookstore intersection. Bringing the once forbidden book to this secluded town, Florence's behavior once again challenged the power of the local nobles. And Florence and Brandish's year-long love naturally intertextualized the love tragedy in "Lolita",
Florence, as a thief of knowledge, like the "Book Clan" girl in "Fahrenheit 451", has influenced the next generation representative of the town, Christine. In the end, under the pressure of all parties, Florence was defeated and left, left alone by boat, and lost the bookstore. But her "beloved", Christine, lit a fire in the old house that was about to be converted into an art center as a farewell gift when she left.
Christine was holding a book and said goodbye to Florence. Florence was originally looking lonely, but when she saw the book in Christine's hand, she instantly understood and showed a long-lost smile. The seemingly simple, indifferent "Bookstore" has a bit of internal strength because of its personalized narrative and the two classic books that are cleverly inserted into the story. This is the power of words, the irresistible call of the authority of the classics. As the film describes, as long as the bookstore is open for one day, there will be a day when readers with clean or dirty fingers will come.
Moreover, books will always quietly change, affecting some people. Whether it is the person who delivers the book or the person who reads the book, they all have one thing in common, that is, they are full of courage in life, and always have the courage and confidence to discover new continents in life. Because of a book, they may be like the old gentleman or the little girl in the film, going out of the spiritual or regional town to a more exciting world.
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