The film is meticulous in terms of props, costumes and setting, but the three actors who really support the soul of the film are Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson, who follow the British theatrical tradition and rely on performance. The built-up tension triangle constitutes a solid framework for the establishment of the film. Director Cosette has a great ability to coordinate the visual style, and her historical background and long-term literary accumulation make it all shrouded in a beautiful classic aesthetic system. The tone of the film is dark and deep, and the picture quality is excellent. The large amount of out-of-focus processing of the picture makes the image more layered and more delicate. The film's reference to literature is very subtle. The way the two postwar modern literary classics, Fahrenheit 451 and Lolita, intervene in society, as well as the social acceptance of them, are also faithfully shown in the film. Compared with the ending of the original work, the warm ending of the film across time and space is more deliberately positive. This adaptation ostensibly caters to popular needs, but also weakens the power of the original work.
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The Bookshop evaluation action
2022-04-02 08:01
Extended Reading
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Lavonne 2022-04-08 09:01:13
Don't like the ending, but maybe most of the reality is like that, not so much lighthearted beauty. I hope that the heroine who runs the bookstore and the old man who loves to read can be together. The little girl is really brave and strong. The rhythm and tone of the whole movie are full of British style, and the old house bookstore in the seaside town is very romantic. The old man's phrase "understanding makes the mind lazy" is quite thought-provoking.
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Lavonne 2022-04-23 07:05:58
In the tragedy of a small town, I suddenly realized that there is a bright spot: after the First World War, the logistics system in which the transportation outside the town depended on automobiles and the transportation inside the town depended on little boys riding bicycles. It doesn't feel any worse than it is now...
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[first lines]
Narrator: She told me once: "When we read a story, we inhabit it; the covers of the books are like a roof and four walls: a house." She, more than anything else in the world, loved the moment when you've finished a book and the story keeps playing like the most vivid dream in your head.
[seagulls cawing]
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Florence Green: What else do people think the old house could be used for? Why have they done nothing about it in the past seven years? There were birds nesting in it. Half the tiles were off the roof and it stank of rats. Wouldn't it be better to fill the place with books for people to look at?
Mr. Keble: I read before going to sleep, and usually drift off to the Land of Nod by about the third page.
Florence Green: So you see? Don't you realize how useful books can be?