It's an ordinary and beautiful story.

Mariela 2022-04-19 09:03:04

This is the movie that made me cry the most. Seeing that the latter two are getting older, sick and dead, I really burst into tears. I have always been afraid of people's aging and death. This film shows me the ordinary but happy life of ordinary people in a specific era. Although the end of the movie is sad because of the departure of relatives, throughout the whole movie, so many ordinary but very precious days for everyone always make people feel happy and healed. Just like our whole life, even if we are separated from the one we love and finally leave ourselves, it has been a great journey through so many beautiful things. As an animated film, "London Family" presents a lot of details, the character dialogue and the description of those scenes are very real and full of life. And the information of the times has been interspersed, allowing people to see the life course of the generation that experienced World War II in the last century through the film. The most unforgettable thing for me is that when my mother was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, I didn't even remember my father. But those births, old age, sickness and death in the movie are only lightly narrated. Tell us, this is the normal state of life. And even so, the story is still good.

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Extended Reading
  • Oma 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    The Chronicle of Old Wife and Young Husband. I really like that kind of ordinary life where two people live in an empty house and fill it with the things they want one by one. For animation, the CG flavor is a bit too heavy. If it is hand-painted like Ernest & Celestine, I would like it.

  • Jean 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    Got hit hard by the last sentence at the end. Life goes by in a hurry, and everyone keeps learning and forgetting. No matter how the world around them is changing, both parents are tacitly living together, so that after one party leaves, the other party can no longer bear the excessive burden. Quietness and loneliness also hurriedly followed. A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. (J. Steinbeck)

Ethel & Ernest quotes

  • [first lines]

    Raymond Briggs: [voice over] There was nothing extraordinary about my Mum and Dad, nothing dramatic, no divorce or anything, but they were my parents and I wanted to remember them by doing a picture book. It's a bit odd really, having a book about my parents up there in the best seller list among all the football heroes and cookbooks. They'd be proud of that, I suppose, or rather probably embarrassed too. I'd imagine they'd say, "It wasn't like that," or, "How can you talk about that?" Well, I have, and this is their story.

  • [last lines]

    Raymond Briggs: [with Jean, looking at the full grown pear tree in Ethel and Ernest's back yard] I grew it from a pip.