The film tells the story of a working-class family living in London in the last century, whose parents fell in love when they were young until their death. Ethel got married late and gave birth to a son at the age of 38. The doctor said that the delivery process was really close. Ernest said that they wanted more children. The doctor said seriously, more children, no wife. Finally, a mother with Alzheimer's disease Lying on the hospital bed, he couldn't remember his husband, but he still unconsciously took out a comb and handed it to his son. The scene of the father stroking his son's shoulder to cover his face and walked out of the ward in tears made his nose sour. At the end of the film, I went back and re-watched the opening sequence. The son who once loved art and married a mentally ill wife is now gray-haired. Sitting at the wooden table, he began to speak slowly and pick up a paintbrush. more impressive.
There was nothing extraordinary about my mom and dad, nothing dramatic, no divorce or anything, but they were my parents and I want to remember them by doing a picture book. Ordinary London family, ordinary life mixed with historical records It is because of ordinary people that they are so sincere and touching. Ordinary people, as a part of the social composition, are the background of history. This is a graphic novel that recalls the 41-year marriage of the parents. Their stories span war, disease, and family changes, and are even more tender in extreme times. There are also life changes interspersed in it, radio, television to cars, the history that ordinary people have experienced and witnessed. The final background music sounded, and suddenly recalled the theme song of modern love, setting sail. Facing all kinds of weather, not afraid of anything. Whether it is contemporary love or old school love in the last century, their essence is the same. Ordinary is the only answer. Those petty conflicts, petty quarrels and fluff, as well as partisan support that has never been reconciled in a lifetime, are all bits and pieces of life itself. They are not educated people, they don't have deep insights into politics, they don't understand mediation disputes in the context of big history, nor can they understand their son's artistic pursuit, their ideas are not trendy enough, when they talk about art, they think of long hair, drinking alcohol , When you think of getting married, you must go to church, not at the marriage registration office. It has nothing to do with religious beliefs. But as ordinary people, they guarded each other's lives with sincerity and kindness. Let us cherish ordinary life even more, no war, peace, what's wrong with ordinary?
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