Ordinary can also be very moving, to every ordinary us

Helga 2022-03-04 08:01:38

At the beginning of the movie, an old man made milk tea in an orderly manner and began to recall. The furnishings in his house and his skillful movements all reflect the unique characteristics of an old British man, which is the unique imprint given to him by his parents!

Mom and Dad are ordinary British people. Dad is optimistic and cheerful, full of hope and enthusiasm for everything. Mom is sensitive, delicate and gentle, and she faces all life calmly. So it's a very happy little family. Because of my mother's body, my father gave up the idea of ​​having a big family. From before World War II to after World War II, he worked as a milkman for thirty-seven years, supported a happy family, escaped the fire of war and gunpowder, and provided reading for his son. The University of the Arts is amazing!

The small waters of ordinary people flow, and the major historical events are slowly revealed from daily life, sometimes it is the radio, sometimes it is the newspaper, sometimes it is the sound of sleep under the iron shelf, and sometimes it is the life in the country, which has experienced the big man's life in the middle. Ups and downs, the whole world and Europe are falling apart. Ordinary people still eat three meals a day, stick to each other, and are involved in the torrent of the times, but they are still most concerned about their children and each other's bodies.

The final ending is also so common, everyone will leave, but the way of farewell is different, but it makes us deeply moved.

Of course, the parents in the film are still enviable. After putting their children in the countryside for a few years, they got good grades... Although I am ordinary, the story was drawn by my son and made into a movie. What a great son!

In the end, I think that in the future when our children remember us, they should be like their parents swiping their mobile phones. I don’t have to be ashamed to think about it. Reading newspapers in the past, and swiping mobile phones today are all marks of the times.

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Ethel & Ernest quotes

  • [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.

  • [last lines]

    Raymond Briggs: [with Jean, looking at the full grown pear tree in Ethel and Ernest's back yard] I grew it from a pip.