Among the romantic comedy love stories of the black-and-white era, "It Happened One Night" was firmly on the top spot of my favorite, and the second was of course Wilder's "Passionate", and this "Street Corner Store" no matter whether it is a plot Or the rhythm can be side by side with "Passion Like Fire". The witty and humorous lines are not inferior to the classic handed down at the end of "Passion Like Fire". The one-on-one fate encounter between the male and female protagonists adds a touch of warmth and comfort to the impetuous moment. Touching, the whole film conveys a positive and optimistic attitude towards life: loneliness is unavoidable, but as long as you work hard, your friends are actually by your side, crossing the age limit; loneliness is the deepest secret in people's hearts , but as long as you are willing to let go of your temper and observe patiently, your lover has always been in front of us, flying over arrogance and prejudice.
This is a story that happened in the office: Mr. Maddochuck, the boss with choice phobia, has six employees: a good old man who has the closest relationship with James Stewart, who is venomous but sensible. Well, there are also two old women who like to gossip, a man who likes to flatter and hypocritical but is about the same age as Stewart, Hua Dash, and the last one is a fourteen or fifteen-year-old clever little boy who is in charge of running errands until the heroine. The appearance of Margaret Sullivan (the actress committed suicide in 1960 by overdosing on sleeping pills). Several characters in the film have their own characteristics, and there are constant climaxes in the collision. The most impressive one is the little boy who is running errands. After he inadvertently saved the life of the boss, Mr. Maddochuck, he immediately seized the opportunity and asked to become an official. The sales clerk at the counter, and swaggeringly changed into an adult suit, often scolded the newly recruited little boy who was taller than him and in charge of running errands, which was ridiculous. The graceful spark of love between the young James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan is like a clear spring in the troubled world, and plays a subtle role in the adjustment of "office feelings": good people secretly adjust each other's relationship Relationship, young men and women quarrel from time to time and lively atmosphere. At work, everyone performs their duties and helps each other, and the boss also happily distributes dividends when they make money. Everyone is happy and content. If you try to go wrong and want to stick the word "bad guy" on your forehead, the character will definitely be eliminated in the sky. It is really suitable for using it after a busy week of work. It's relaxed and comfortable values Slightly anesthetize your realistic and tense nerves.
Speaking of encounters, I am speechless when I think of the encounter festival held in the ancient city of Phoenix. It seems that even the heart can be mass-produced these days, and the tasks are completed on the assembly line at regular and fixed points; In the name of launching a sexual liberation movement, I don't know what fun people who go to join in the fun can really get from it. In fact, what we are looking for with all our hearts is not the moving and gratifying feeling in "Street Corner Store" of "searching for him thousands of times in the crowd, suddenly looking back, but that person is in the dim light", moving forward without purpose in the crowd but not Go with the flow, put on a protective coat like a cactus, an inadvertent heartbeat, so that two people are willing to speak from the depths of their souls when they are close, such a subtle and distant voice can only be heard by that person, only he is worth listening to.
The most important thing is that it all started without you knowing it.
What I like most is that Stuart, after discovering that his sweetheart was actually a colleague, began to observe her words and deeds with new eyes, trying to find the hidden true soul in her rude behavior. In the restaurant, Margaret satirized that Stewart's intelligence was nothing but a lighter that couldn't be lit. Stewart laughed instead of anger. In his opinion, the metaphor now cleverly combines poetry and malice. Different from the letter, he found more, no longer can only rely on imagination to shape the type he likes, but the unique taste that is contrary to his interests. The more he talked to his sweetheart, the more he discovered the more lively, talented, empathetic and life-loving side.
At the end, the lie that Stewart told before confessing was very funny, but I think the first feeling of any girl after finding out that she has been played should be anger, and the heroine's performance is also a bit materialized, like a standing At the entrance of the vegetable market, Wenqing, a woman who woke up from a dream and breathed the smell of human fireworks, was waiting for the man who came out of the hall to weave a beautiful dream that she would never wake up from.
This is a romantic dream that belongs only to the movie, as the heroine wrote in her heart: "We have enough misery in our daily lives, there are many wonderful and great things in the world that are worth discussing, and we waste our precious lives telling each other how we are. It’s a waste of life to seek life.” Put the firewood, rice, oil and salt aside, push the promotion and entertainment under the table, rub the friction into the sewer, hug him who is close at hand, and relive the heart and soul of love in 99 minutes together. Beautiful, this is the driving force behind life, isn't it?
Classic lines:
Although we are in the same room, obviously we are not on the same planet.
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