Meditate on the past and set the setting sun... At that time, it was only normal

Green 2022-04-23 07:04:57

Like every ordinary and happy family. Their chance encounter led to their marriage; they formed a family, a little from nothing; they had a child of their own, raised him, educated him, and loved him. Children grow up and become independent, only they are still together.

There are so many details in the movie that are touching. On Monday they met, on Tuesday they started expecting, on Wednesday they missed, on Thursday they were disappointed, on Friday he went to her and didn't miss. The 825 pound house is very expensive, but it will be for play after all. It is really warm to see that their home has never been full. Although there are second-hand and old ones, it is warm when you enter this house.

War is terrifying and cruel. My father built a bomb shelter in the yard, put a miniature shelter in the room, and sang a cheerful song with his son while we were farming. As long as we are still together, the suffering can be overcome. of.

The mother was proud that her son had gone to grammar school, was sad when her son was about to drop out of school for art school, cried when her son was not getting married at church, and was disappointed when she learned that she could not hold her grandson, but in the end he studied art and shared with himself. The girl who wants to get married and live her own life. The pear tree in the yard has grown taller. It was planted by the pear pits that my son ate when he was a child. The mother said it took up space, and the father said that it would block the yard in a few years, but they still kept it and let it grow into a tree. .

My mother and my mother were always unable to talk politics and science with my father very well. She always wanted to give her son a comb, even when her future daughter-in-law came home for the first time. When she was seriously ill, even with Alzheimer's, she did not forget to brush her son, and this time he took it over. After my mother is gone, every frame in the picture is full of loss, as if there is no soul at home.

Just like every ordinary family, plain and beautiful fragments are the elements of happiness. Even those moments that make you irritable are precious that cannot be regained after many years. Meditating on the past and setting the setting sun... At that time, it was only normal.

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Ethel & Ernest quotes

  • Ethel Briggs: I could have married a deep-sea diver.

    Ernest Briggs: Well, why didn't ya?

    Ethel Briggs: Because I didn't love him.

  • [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.