In July 1993, I left the university and returned home. Perhaps to celebrate my return, my mother took me on vacation to a place called Beihai. I have never seen such an interesting sea, soft sand, clear water only knee- or waist-high, can't swim because of lack of buoyancy, but can run. On this beach, I left a few photos that I still like very much. My mother must have missed me terribly in the four years that I was away from home.
In 1993, Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet" won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. I went to work and started my career.
Emma Thompson is extremely talented, as is her ex-husband Kenneth Branagh, the icon of Shakespeare after Lawrence Oliver. Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility" is a classical work, very literary, and Emma is the screenwriter of this film, and also won an Oscar for this film.
It was an era when classicism flooded the screen. British local film production, "Wait until we meet again" in college, "Pride and Prejudice" in the BBC's 96th edition, and now it seems quite contrived, but almost concentrated "After the Wind and Rain", the best British actor of the 1980s.
There is always something tedious and sentimental in British films, but also humorous and light-hearted, like Four Weddings and a Funeral. I have seen some movie reviews before and said that this is a story of "Mr. Late and the Slutty Lady", which is ridiculous. The behavior of Hugh Grant's actor Charles at his first wedding is indeed a bit unbelievable. But it was his pair of gay friends who, after one died, the other read the American poet WH Auden's "Funeral Blues" at the funeral. There is also "The Reef", "I have made my choice, I have you, and I will treasure you here, forever."
There are some words that cannot be said, so we restrain, we are silent. Like the British butler in this movie, it's not that I don't want to say it, but my existence is the language of everything.
The sorrows of life keep hitting us like destiny. We cannot dodge, and there is nowhere to dodge. When we have the ability to end all this, we can never take away the desolation and loneliness.
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