A 2017 film, the original author, director, screenwriter, and only protagonist are all women, telling the feelings of the entire cast and crew about reading, what an extravagance in today's eyes.
The clear gray-green tone, the uncertain town, the soothing and dull rhythm, each frame is a visual enjoyment and spiritual cleansing. Pure, affectionate, restrained, sincere. Seems like a healing story, right? But in fact, the reality is to spare no effort.
The director of the title told the audience through the mouth of the boatman that the heroine sells books to a group of people who don’t need to read. stupid ordinary people. It seems that no one can support the existence of a bookstore except the purest children and the most closed old people.
It was a small British town in 1959, and it seems that today in 2021 is no different.
But the point of the movie is to create a fantasy beyond reality. Therefore, the director presented: In the rainy days of Haitian, two people who dress conservatively, two people who love to read, and two people who are marginalized by the times. They use the most restrained tone to express their sincerity.
This is the most restrained and noble confession I have ever seen.
Then, he took her silk scarf and embarked on a road he had refused for decades, and never came back.
She was wearing the dress she had worn when she had tea with him for the first time, opened the book, and the dandelion wine had really arrived.
She set fire to the bookstore that the government had ripped off, and before that, took down the books she had promised to read left on the shelves.
It's not a movie with a brilliant plot and technique, and its themes are even outdated for a hundred years, but perhaps it's the outdatedness that makes this bookstore seem so ordinary and noble.
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