After watching this movie, my first thought was: I really want to eat a thick, sweet pastry, like the English cake in the movie, and yes, with a cup of black tea.
Near home, the closest I've found are muffins in Starbucks. So ten minutes later, I was at home drinking black tea and eating two warm red bean and oatmeal muffins.
Perhaps because of their heat and sweetness, they are the most direct and only effective emotional comfort at this moment. Life is really hard, the world is really desperate, but there is always a little bit of heat and a little bit of sweetness. Therefore, we say to have courage and have dreams.
For Mrs Green, that bit of heat and sweetness is naturally Mr Brundish and the little girl Christine, the former is the soul resonance, the latter is the daily good partner. In addition, the boatman Moran was friendly and helpful, as well as the little boy who ran errands, and there was no one else. The oppressor, the abuser, the indifferent bystander, the gossip, the mocker... This is really the reality. Achieving dreams is never easy.
Green has had a very good love and marriage, so she doesn't think about remarrying, she can support herself with the memory of her deceased husband's letters and reading verses. So why is she no longer content with the safe house, comfort zone of reading and memory? Why was she risking everything to open the bookstore with so much resistance? There is no direct description in the movie. Perhaps it was the accumulation of 16 years that turned the quantitative change to the qualitative change. Was her love for books and the bookstore where love was born so strong that she had to do this? So when she loses the bookstore and is forced to leave, when she sees the bookstore on fire and smoking, will she feel that all the good things in the past have been wiped out? Christine thinks not, because she still has courage and love deep in her heart. This is probably a logical closed loop from the question to the solution.
As for Christine, who grew up at the end of the film, repeating Green's words "In a bookstore, no one feels alone", I think it's right and wrong. Because I think of Mr Brundish, he was with the books all day, but he was alone until a brief time with Green, and then he died alone.
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