Can you hear me now?

Eileen 2022-04-19 09:02:47

Bill Nighy's Lawrence is as nervous as Woody Allen, and both are willing to use words to distract them. (This is not like Bill in reality) The difference is the language ability of the two. In Woody's films, there's always chunks of his monologue, or he's rambled on to another guy and that guy can't stand it.
And Bill's Lawrence is clumsy at all times, even when he's seated as assistant to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The first half of this movie is very good. It's almost all clumsy but ingenious language entanglement between Lawrence and Gina. The topics they talk about are enough to prove that the writers have original ideas.
But soon, the movie went from a British romantic light comedy to a righteous drama about politics and poverty, and the love between Lawrence and Gina became more nebulous. The screenwriter gets weaker as he goes to the back. When the famous quote from Nelson Mandela came out at the end of the credits, I was stunned.
"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."

Anyway, the song used at the beginning and end of the credits is very nice. I've heard it before and forgot the name of the song. I suspect Carpenters.
Who knows, please tell me.

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The Girl in the Café quotes

  • Lawrence: Oh, God! It's a double bed.

  • Lawrence: We have a pair of unfortunate situations here. A man who has nothing in his life except his work, that is unfortunate. And then by a stroke of bizarre chance, he finds someone who makes that not true for a day or two. But then, suddenly, it seems as though the price that has to be paid for that ray of light is some kind of... disgrace. It doesn't seem quite fair.