A London family that stays together through thick and thin

Percy 2022-04-20 09:02:42

It's a very good cartoon movie. I didn't find it before. I saw it last night and watched it in one breath. I was very moved.

The acquaintance of this couple is too dramatic and too accidental, but they are both gentle and romantic people with a beautiful vision of love, and it is not surprising that they can quickly develop to meet their parents and get married.

What is rare is that, firstly, men are five years younger than women (one 30, one 35?) Second, many of their ideas are quite different, but they can be together for 40 years, through war, Great Depression, disease, poverty... always Never give up, love each other. What impresses me is not only their tenderness and romance, but also their perseverance to family members, mutual tolerance and constant protection.

In the end, the old lady suffered from Alzheimer's disease and could not recognize her husband, only her son. The old man secretly wiped his tears and walked out of the ward. After the old lady left, the old gentleman was accompanied by the cat. He ate at home alone, he would also prepare two dishes, and he would talk to himself to the empty chair, as if the old lady was still sitting across from him. These two episodes brought me to tears.

This is an ordinary and ordinary family, but they deeply understand the mystery of the lasting love.

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Extended Reading
  • 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)

  • Lee 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    Although it's very running, this kind of memory killing is really irresistible. It will definitely hit the audience at some point in the movie. After watching it, I will break down and cry when I look back at the title.

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.