People who know me well know that I especially like watching the TV series "Youth Bao Qingtian". When I thought of the title of this article, I suddenly thought of a line in it. Pang Taishi, so there are flattering books such as "Pang Taishi and My Mother's Two or Three Things" on the market.
But this has nothing to do with what I'm going to say today, it's just an awkward opening remark...
Would you go to a movie because of a picture or a line? I can. Just like I finished watching "The Kite Runner" because of the phrase "for you thousands of times". And indeed, this novel about self-redemption is really touching.
Recently, I was attracted by a picture, and the arrogant little eyes immediately caught my attention.
Since I watched very few British dramas, I thought this character was very familiar at the time, but I remembered later that she is Professor McGonagall in "Harry Potter"!
And this image is from one of her films, "The Lady in the Van." The lady is played by the British national grandmother and old drama bone Maggie Smith.
The film is adapted from the play of the same name by Alan Bennett and is based on real events. Maggie Smith stars as Miss Shepherd, a homeless woman who has lived in a van in the driveway next to Alan Bennett's house for 15 years.
Miss Shepherd, she is eccentric, wandering the streets of a small town in England. The film uses flashbacks and episodes to tell why she wandered the streets for 15 years. In fact, in my opinion, it is about some warm little stories that happened between an old man who was down in his old age and a writer who lived alone.
She was an apprentice to a very famous pianist in the past, and she has performed on stage, so she should be doing fine. But life changed. One day, when she was driving at a three-way intersection, a motorcycle rushed over and hit her car and died on the spot. She fled in fear.
This accident caused her to think that she killed him, but in fact it had nothing to do with her. She lived with this "guilt", was afraid of the police, was blackmailed by the police, stopped playing the piano, and only prayed and prayed every day. And changed the original name "Margaret" to "Shepherd".
The paranoid character made her unable to become a nun, so she began to wander with her van.
Alan is a new playwright who has moved in. He is withdrawn and has a habit of cleanliness. According to the rhythm of the corrupt country TV, the writer should be a gay, but the film does not mention it directly, but when he was sending a mysterious man out in the middle of the night, he was seen by Miss Shephert and asked Alan: "Does he have earrings on his ears?" When Alan answered yes, she reminded him to be careful, he may be a Communist Party member, everyone will probably smile when they see this!
If there is warmth, there will naturally be conflict. Such a sloppy old man with a stinky smell will naturally be disliked by some neighbors. Everyone is guessing to each other whose door her van will be parked at today?
In fact, the withdrawn Alan is a very kind person. When the film tells about him, there is a sense of split personality in it, because he always imagines another self. One he writes earnestly in the house, while the other goes to live. So, the one in his life met Miss Shephert.
He couldn't stand Miss Shepherd being disliked by the neighbors, so he gave her a free parking space. Since then, Miss Sheppart's van has been parked at his house, and they have started a long "cohabitation" life.
From the very beginning, he was afraid that she would stop at the door of his house to invite her to the house. From the very beginning, he also disliked her sloppyness to help her clean up her feces and connect the wires to watch TV shows for her. I seem to see the joy of "marriage" in such a small detail of caring for the elderly.
Rather than telling us about how lonely people survive in this world, what I saw was the loneliness and sadness of a widowed old man who was not married and had no children.
This inevitably reminds me of some old people around me, who are more than 80 years old and have to pick vegetables to sell on the street all day long. There are also phenomena such as some sick elderly being shied away by their children to take care of each other.
Miss Shephert has only one older brother left in the film, but she ignores her. However, Alan, who has nothing to do with her, is slowly getting along in the process of getting along with each other, and accepts the fact that he "takes care of" her.
It may be useful to recall that distant relatives are not as good as near neighbors.
And Alan also got to know her mother in the process of getting along with her, and she has been accompanying her during the process of her mother's dementia in her later years.
At the end of the film, Ms. Sheppart was taken to the welfare center by the social worker and took a clean bath. In the welfare center, she saw a piano, and she sat beside the piano, playing it so quietly, as if she was back home. when I was young.
After such a midnight, she returned to her van. Before parting, she stretched out her hand and shook hands with Alan. She fell asleep quietly and never woke up again.
In fact, it's a light comedy, but at the moment when Miss Shephert finally died, it always made people want to cry.
In a person's life, what they seek, what they rejoice in, what they fear, and what they dodge are often created in an instant. Those moments take root and sprout in your heart, and always make you want to escape from the world, and you will be taken away again. pull back.
And when Miss Sheppart painted her van bright yellow with the toilet brush, it seemed to me that the light in the dark world should be bright, and this bright yellow is enough.
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