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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  • Camron 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    The actor's performance makes people feel uncomfortable... Obviously it's a very literary love story, but it's just put on the cloak of politics, and the ending is too ideal

  • Antwon 2022-04-22 07:01:49

    At first I thought it was a literary film, then I thought it was a drama, and finally I found out that it was a political film...

The Girl in the Café quotes

  • [Lawrence and Gina are discussing shopping at Marks and Spencer]

    Lawrence: I'm told it's the place for dating. I'm told people go there to shop, and they get casually talking about, you know, Spaghetti a la Carbonara and suddenly love flowers by the counter for people with under five items.

  • Chancellor of the Exchequer: Ladies and gentlemen, we're handing around new proposals. And remember, even if the Prime Minister and I are alone on this, we are not alone. Behind us stand the 30,000 children who will die of extreme poverty each day and we are proud to be their representatives. I didn't give my life to politics in order to say that I was part of a generation that succeeded in cutting the tariff on the import of processed coffee to 27.3%. I want to be a member of that great generation that for the first time had in its power to wipe out poverty, and did so. Are we alone in this? Or will someone else stand beside us?