The lady in the van

Janis 2022-03-28 09:01:09

Love Maggie Smith's British humor. This movie makes people come back to their senses from "Downton Abbey". There are many ingenious ideas in the movie's conception. The final ascension is a thunder point. Some of the designs are too artificial and seem to fall into the clichés. Overall, I still think it's a good movie, and if you want to dig into it, you can probably reflect it into some grand themes and backgrounds. But compared to that, I prefer to see it as a simple work. Maggie finally played a certain tune in memory from jerky to familiar in the sunset, which is a very beautiful scene in the whole play. Then there's the last night before Maggie died shaking hands with Alan and shaking my hand, Mr. Bennett, it was washed today.

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The Lady in the Van quotes

  • Alan Bennett: [narrating] It's like a fairy story, a parable, in which the guilty is gulled into devising a sentence for someone innocent. Only to find it is their own doom they have pronounced.

  • Jehovah's Witnesses: [at the front door] Good afternoon. Does Jesus Christ dwell in this house?

    Alan Bennett: No. Try the van...