Thank you for coming back

Tobin 2022-03-22 09:02:21

Laura is an ordinary middle-class housewife with a dull and even boring life. Alec is a middle-aged doctor who already has a family. Two strangers meet at the station, and a brief scene erupts. And a fiery affair. But in the end, the two still fell in love and stopped politely. Alec chose to leave for Africa, and Laura returned to her previous life track.

The thing that moved me the most about the whole film was when Laura's husband said to Laura at the end of the film, "You used to be far away from me, but now, thank you for coming back". It turned out that this man knew everything from the beginning.

True happiness may always be short-lived, just like fireflies, it can only be shared but not owned. But those fluorescent lights are gorgeous but ethereal and hard to touch, while those fires that warm you are always inconspicuous in the corners that you ignore, "Thank you for coming back".

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  • Laura Jesson: [speaking about Dolly to herself] I wish you'd stop talking. I wish you'd stop prying and trying to find things out. I wish you were dead - no I don't mean that. That was silly and unkind. But I wish you'd stop talking.

  • Laura Jesson: [thinking to herself while looking at her husband, Fred] Fred, dear Fred. There's so much that I want to say to you. You're the only one in the world with enough wisdom and gentleness to understand. If only it was somebody else's story and not mine. As it is, you're the only one in the world that I can never tell. Never never. Because even if I waited until we were old, old people and told you then, you'd be bound to look back over the years and be hurt. And my dear, I don't want you to be hurt. You see, we're a happily married couple and let's never forget that. This is my home. You're my husband. And my children are upstairs in bed. I'm a happily married woman - or I was, rather, until a few weeks ago. This is my whole world, and it's enough, or rather, it was until a few weeks ago. But, oh, Fred, I've been so foolish. I've fallen in love. I'm an ordinary woman. I didn't think such violent things could happen to ordinary people.