our whole life

Alberto 2022-09-14 02:49:08

I haven't watched a movie for a long time, and my mood is flying like a bird. The film tells the ordinary and warm life of the author's parents. They suffered World War II together. After the Churchill-Labor Party-Iron Lady's ruling period, the family gradually had a telephone, TV, and car. You will see your own shadow, and even see it. own life.

The barrage has been afraid of accidents and the death of the couple. Indeed, the desolation of her mother, who was still strong an hour ago, turned into a shriveled corpse, with only a piece of white cloth after her death, made many people cry. At that moment, the always strong and optimistic father was crying on his son's shoulder. When the camera zooms in on a shriveled, held arm, we know that my father is also dead.

Death is very sad, but one has to face it and even get used to it, and in the midst of sadness there is still warmth. The simple air-raid shelter built by the father during World War II, the anti-collapse sleeping couch like a cage, the mother's expectations and nagging about her son, the son's childhood spent in the countryside due to the government's hedging policy, from being alive to wishing the child a good job Marrying a good girl, from the uncompromising of a comb to the compromise, there is too much to express, funny and warm, all need to be experienced by the viewer.

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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.