It took a whole night to read it, and the story is warm and sad.
In 1971, Los Angeles, Charlie was 10 years old. One morning she woke up to find a man, a cook, in the kitchen at home. That's how Mr Church appeared, hired to take care of their mother and daughter and cook them until Charlie's mother died of cancer. This period was 6 months at the beginning, no one expected that it would last for 6 years, and then later, took care of Charlie's daughter...
Mr. Church shows up in the kitchen every morning, making a delicious breakfast to jazz music. He goes shopping and always buys back slow ingredients. His books slowly filled the shelves, and he made a library card for Charlie, like a library. He plays the piano, paints, and reads books. He is like the moon, "calm and composed, always by his side". After making dinner every day, he said that his work for the day was done, he would leave the house, never stay overnight, and show up in the kitchen the next morning. Day by day, 6 years have passed in the blink of an eye. Mr. Church here always reminds me of the immortal Enoch in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", loyal and reliable. He always called Mary "Mrs." with the politeness of the program, and was utterly lovely.
Six years later, 16-year-old Charlie already knew about her mother's illness. She loved her mother, but she knew that every day, her mother was gone. This kind of love and hatred intertwined in her heart made her want to escape from her mother. Does this have something to do with "near-nostalgia"? After prom, my mother died. After learning to drive, with only books and clothes, Charlie entered Boston University. University life is very exciting and fulfilling. Some people find themselves here, but some people gradually get lost...
In 1980, when Charlie returned home again, it was an accident, and the role of the father of the Brooks family always seemed to be absent. Mr. Church didn't ask anything, took Charlie in and continued to take care of her. They also had a collision during this period, Mr. Church asked Charlie to respect her privacy, but Charlie was so curious about him that after an argument they went back to mutual respect and she stopped asking him about his two nights a week. Where did you go, why did you get drunk when you came back, why did you curse your father, but silently help him put away the matches in the bar. They accompany and understand each other as before.
Later, Isabella was born. Later, Larson got married, Purby made his own way in New York, Owen became a doctor, the former children grew up, and Mr. Church fell ill. People always die, don't they? "People get weird in the face of death, some people talk about everything but the dead person, some people just talk about the dead person, some people try to comfort you, some people can't do anything but make you cry, some people Say nothing because they don't need it."
The story is warm and gentle, and even though there are two funerals in the film, the death of the sun and the moon doesn't make the story despairingly cold. Maybe it's because everyone is someone else's sun and moon. Larson took Charlie, who was knocked down by a skateboard and pregnant, to the hospital and saved the lives of both, but he said that she and Isabella saved him from suicide; Mr. Church took care of three generations of Charlie's family, But he said that it was them who made him find the warmth of home. In this film, I saw the best interaction between people, not completely frank, but to accompany each other without asking about the past.
2021.1.19
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