The film is adapted from Helian Hanff's epistolary novel of the same name. In fact, it is not a novel or reality. It describes the relationship between the playful and lively American old lady and poor writer Helian in the 1950s and the old-fashioned British gentleman Frank, the manager of the used bookstore in London. More than a decade of communications. I remember reading this book at the beginning of the Judicial Exam a long time ago. It was the most diligent year of my life. All entertainment was completely eliminated. There were no meals, movies, games, or even books. I forgot how this thin little book got in my hands, but seeing how thin it is, I allowed myself to secretly relax and read it in half a night. The story originated from looking for an old book, but saw the collision between American culture and British culture. Hailian is a person with a temperament, an old-fashioned warm-hearted, a whimsical, enthusiastic and wise woman, and she contrasts with the cautious and serious British gentleman. It is also a collision of personalities. Behind the letters of different styles, there are two people with rich connotations and tacit understanding of souls, and their feelings are deepening day by day. But for more than 20 years, for various reasons, they just missed each other.
What I'm watching tonight is actually an old movie from 1987, played by Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins, it's so fitting, it's vivid, it recreates Helena and Frank, the people around you, the changing The background of the times, the taste of New York and London is authentic, and Haosheng misses and longs for such a beautiful and quiet communication between people in the past era. Although the two have never been rich in their lives, Hai Lian has even been poor all her life, but she is as shy as she is, but Gu Dao warmly sent a lot of food to the bookstores that Britain was in desperate need of after the war, and it is true to share what she also lacks. generous. Seeing them sitting in a book city, knowing traditional etiquette, and passing geese like pearls, in my eyes, they are simply richer than a king. The film itself is not particularly brilliant, but the book is faithfully restored from the director, actors, sets, and props, so that the used bookstore at 84 Charing Cross Street is displayed in front of us in three-dimensional reality from the book, and we can even smell it. The musty smell and the fine flying dust, the ancient books are like secret treasures, silent and proud, waiting for the reader to open the door. The two protagonists have profound skills, their performances come easily, and they have conversations across the ocean. Seeing Hailian smiling at the camera, it's like seeing her laughing, catching, and crying when she was looking at the letter. Even if she doesn't marry in her whole life, she is as warm and rich as her, and naturally she has an interesting and wonderful life. As for her relationship with Frank, she is reserved and reserved, but unfortunately it is like "Mary and Marx" in the end. As for whether it is friendship or love, what does it matter? Love is love, do you have to put a label to be safe? This feeling can be reminisced, but it was already lost at the time.
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