#Written in the preface#
After watching this movie on the way back from a business trip, the name is very strange and a little awkward. Guernsey and the Potato Crust Pie Club is a story that first attracted me to the name. The film is based on the original novel. Anne Byroth compiled the manuscript of her aunt Mary Ann Schaeffer before the novel came out in 2008. After ten years, the original book was put on the big screen, and I haven't read the original book, so this movie review is also my impression after watching the movie. If you want to watch the original after watching the movie, it means that the movie is a success. If you want to watch the movie after reading this review, it means that my movie review is also a success.
Miss Cat Cat Cat 2019.2.07
#Victory is not over#
On the edge of the English Channel near the French coastline is an island called Guernsey, which was occupied by the Germans in 1941-1945. What happened during the years of German occupation? In this environment, however, the island has a book club with an odd name - the Guernsey Literary and Potato Crust Pie Club, with members Elizabeth, Dawsey, Amlia, Eben, Isola. The story begins in 1946, just after World War II, when the urban female writer Juliet fell in love with the story of Dawsey, a farmer in Xanadu. The director's bright line presents the audience with a beautiful love story, and the lovers will eventually become married; the dark line is to convey to the audience the cruelty of war and the story of how people after the war get out of the war to bring them warmth and healing.
In Guernsey in 1941, the members of the club were caught by German officers because they had missed the ban —Guernsey Literary and Potato Crust Pie Club. As for why there is a potato peel pie, let's wait for everyone to watch the movie to understand it, so there will be no spoilers.
The cruelty of war is not the lack of food or clothing, but the loneliness and fear in the heart. Only Elizabeth realizes everyone's real needs and organizes everyone to get together, establish connections with each other, and keep each other warm. The significance of the establishment of the late Guernsey Literary and Potato Crust Pie Club was not simply to eat roast pigs.
The director used a few scenes of war to properly show what the war has brought to people. The war is over on the surface, but the wounds caused by the war are still continuing. When will the psychological wounds be repaired? , no one will know. That's why club member Amelia objected to Juliet's writing their story in The Times, which everyone is proud of.
Why did Amelia refuse? Why is Kit called the male protagonist's father? What kind of story is there? Why is Elizabeth, the founder of this book club, not on the island? Where did she go? What is her relationship with the male lead? Why doesn't everyone talk about her? What have the people on the island experienced during the years of German occupation? What happened again?
But the club was not interrupted because of Elizabeth's departure, and the reading club continued. In that space, as if there was magic, everyone forgot the pain caused by the war, lost land, lost relatives, forgot themselves, immersed in the book, Immersed in literature, let the soul get a short-term healing and soothing.
#I've been looking for myself#
How to put it, a novelist fell in love with a peasant romantic story. Such a story that is not in the right household will only appear true and appropriate if it occurs in a specific bad environment. It makes people feel that the heroine should abandon the rich and handsome fiancé and be with the farmer hero. Why does the female lead like the male lead?
The heroine's parents died because of the war when she was young. The pain brought by the war has always been there, and her uneasiness has always been there. And all this her publisher and friend Sidney has always known. The crystal ball of the heroine's father appears more than once in the movie. The crystal ball represents the father and is the hope and pillar of the heroine's survival. This can also explain why the female protagonist has money but has been living in a rented apartment and can fall in love with the male protagonist Dawsey. The male protagonist has experienced the same war as him, and they seem to be full of holes in their seemingly ordinary state.
In a romantic atmosphere, it is actually very depressing. The heroine has been living very depressingly and wants to find herself. For the heroine, external material things are not important. She doesn't like to write under her real name, and she doesn't like to participate in public activities. She is always looking for everything she really wants, the other half is good, and the place where she lives is the same. , she has been looking for. Until I received a letter from the male protagonist, the soundtrack of the movie also changed, from noisy to quiet music.
The movie uses a very strong contrast to present all of this. With her fiancé Mark, every time she goes on a date, the heroine wears gorgeous clothes, delicate makeup and classic red lips, but the heroine is at a loss, even her hands are not comfortable. ; The big masonry ring, why didn't she wear it? The answer is obvious, people can never deceive their hearts.
On the island of Guernsey, the female protagonist dressed in plain clothes, walked barefoot on the beach with the male protagonist, picked up the piglet in the pigsty, smiled brightly, her lips became a touch of freshness, and ran happily with Kit. The heroine found her spiritual home, as if she was finally breathing freely.
Maybe the heroine didn't even know, but when she first received a letter from the hero, she fell in love with him. That feeling of mutual sympathy is a hindrance to many people, so when they know that they have a book club on Friday, they will go to Guernsey without risking their lives. After I went, I kept making excuses and never came back. On one side is the bustling London life, with the right betrothed partner, on the other side is the farmer in a dream paradise that is a bit detached from reality, where to go? And our heroine found herself in Guernsey and knew she belonged there.
I like the last line the hostess wrote to the club people, unconsciously I feel that I have been looking for familiar old faces for many years, do you think we belong to them before we meet them? And that's how I understand my family.
#I didn't know who I was before I met you#
The "Essays of Lamb Elijah" sold by the female lead was transferred to the male lead, and the two communicated in this way. The feeling is a bit like "84 Charing Cross Street". Although they have not met, they seem to have already have known each other for a long time. Before meeting the heroine, the hero can be said to have always been the guardian of Elizabeth. Before, he lived a dull life as a farmer raising pigs. The Germans occupied Guernsey and could only grow potatoes. It was Elizabeth who brought everyone together and started the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Club, where everyone gathered to read every Friday.
It can be said that the male protagonist liked Elizabeth before, but has it risen to the level of love? I am a little skeptical about this. If it is love, I think the male protagonist will confess to Elizabeth, before she knows the German officer. Because true love always gives people courage, doesn't it?
In the end, the male protagonist read the letter written by the female protagonist Juliet, and went to London to find the female protagonist regardless of his life. Such courage is true love. When the heroine participated in the book club for the first time, I discussed Jane Eyre with everyone. I have the same soul as you. At that time, the male protagonist's eyes were full of stars, and that kind of emotion naturally revealed inadvertently, maybe he didn't know it himself.
Of course, being able to capture the heroine's heart is not only because of her handsomeness, but also because of the two hearts that cherish each other. The forbearance before I was not sure of the heroine's mind finally got the answer in the last letter of the heroine. The final picture of the movie is very beautiful. The heroine is walking from Elizabeth's villa, and the hero is giving Kit readers Shakespeare's poetry collection.
The connection between people is often very wonderful. The earth is like a desert that I am destined to cross to find those familiar faces, and our lives are quietly changing when we meet true love.
#about Elizabeth#
Finally, I want to talk about Elizabeth, the second female, who is the core of the whole story. And playing Elizabeth is the third lady of Downton Abbey. In Downton Abbey, the third lady is a pioneer who cares about politics and the feminist movement, and does not marry her own driver for the secular pursuit of true love. In addition to Miss San, the heroine and several others are also characters in Downton Abbey, so I won't introduce them one by one. Elizabeth here is also a similar construction. You can say that she is too great. In order to save slaves, she left her daughter and friends and relatives behind. I think the reason why she did this was because of the war, and the war brought them to us ordinary people do not know, also incomprehensible.
This reminds me of Somerset Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence", the male protagonist is also different because he has participated in the war. The wounds of war do not heal in a day, and the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Club is a sanctuary for everyone, healing every soul.
Finally, I attach Kit's beautiful poetry to end this film review
When I was one , I had just begun
When I was two , I was nearly new
When I was three , I was hardly me
When I was four , I was not much more
When I was five , I was just alive
But now , I am six , I am as clever as clever
So I think I 'll be six , till forever and ever
Now I am six …………………………………….
And Guernsey, it's just a paradise, with a few photos...
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