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Octavia 2022-03-24 09:02:51

The significance of "Meet Too Late" to British films is just as "Spring in a Small Town" is to Chinese films, and "Tokyo Story" is to Japanese films. It ranks second in the 100 Best of the Century selected by British film critics. Some people likened the film to the British "Casablanca"

as a typical melodrama, "Meet Hate Too Late" shows a certain degree of "anti-sociality", personal and social/ideological contradictions in daily affairs and family life Hidden all the time. This was purely out of the oppressive background of the time and the needs of the audience - in the Western society of the 1940s and 1950s, the family itself became an increasingly obvious source of pressure. The tension of the film is mainly expressed through the strong conflict between morality and emotion in the heroine's heart, as a classic line in the film says: "Please forgive me, forgive me for falling in love with you." Under the moral system of the middle class , Blind love has become a mistake. In the emotional entanglement and inner struggle, this mistake was finally corrected when the hero left Africa, leaving behind endless sorrow and bitter and sweet memories, and life will continue to be turbulent. Proceed in amazement. At the end, the heroine is sitting in the warm living room, opposite her husband who is playing crossword puzzles, the past is vivid, but love is no longer available, Rachmaninoff's "Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor" for her. The complex mood is greatly enhanced.

"Meet Too Late", "Great Expectations" and "Oliver Twist" are also known as the English literary trilogy shot by David Lean, and it is also Lean's early small-cost production and later large-cost wide-screen epic blockbuster films. watershed.

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  • Reyes 2022-04-23 07:03:27

    Emotions are portrayed just right, I didn't expect David Lean to be so delicate in romantic films.

  • Daniela 2022-04-21 09:02:54

    Laura's smile is so cute, and she acts like a frightened bunny's middle-class literary and artistic middle-aged rich and tangled inner drama is really compatible with La Er. . . In fact, whether it is Laura, Alec or Fred, they are all very envious...

Brief Encounter quotes

  • Laura Jesson: [Secret thoughts] I felt suddenly quite wildly happy.

  • Laura Jesson: [Secret thoughts] We were very gay during lunch and talked about quite ordinary things.