The movie itself is three and a half stars, plus half a star for the bookstore theme.
A movie watched because of the word "bookstore", for a paper book lover, the closest existence to paper books - bookstores, it is inevitable to want to find out. The storyline of the movie is simple and smooth, without major ups and downs, but the small details flowing in between are still heartwarming.
A widow opens a bookstore in a closed seaside town. From a practical level, the ending can be imagined, especially in this era. However, the bookstore in the play was killed by the town residents before they could try their hand at the market. That's right, it was the people in the town who worked together to murder Mrs. Green's bookstore, no matter whether it was downright arrogant or arrogant, no one involved was innocent. This is the real pattern of this small town. It can accommodate so many people living here, but it cannot accommodate a small bookstore.
I am very happy that the director and even the original author did not fabricate a fairytale-like happy ending for it, but in the end, the bookstore ended bleakly, just like reality. Is this movie too tragic? No, as the lines in the film say: "She achieved her dream and was taken away, but no one can take away what she has deep inside her: her courage."
Mr. Brendis is dead, and who else will the other women in town start spreading rumors about? (Indian movie "Toilet Hero" comes to mind instantly) Some women are busy being themselves and trying to defend their rights, while some women are busy trapping themselves and embarrassing other women. Some people like to be noisy, to be around, to be loved. Some people prefer tranquility to crowds, and believe that there is a world of their own without contention. A person who loves books, generally tend to the latter!
Does Mrs. Jammatt really want to build some kind of art center? Not necessarily, the old house has been there for so long, and she has never stopped her eyes. She just can't stand the fact that women other than her are at the center of the topic. A widow wants to open a bookstore, which is probably a ground-breaking thing in a small town. How could she tolerate others stealing her limelight, so she obstructed it in every possible way. There are thousands of people in the world. For her, the joy of building an art center is definitely not as good as defeating a thorn in the eyes.
What disappointed me in the film was that the director treated the relationship between Mrs. Green and Mr. Brendis as love. It is said that the original book is just a kind of sympathy for like-minded people, so the texture will be better! As if someone insisted on exaggerating the relationship between the two protagonists of 84 Charing Cross as love, which, in my eyes, is blasphemous. The beautiful emotions that exist between men and women in this world are not just love.
While other so-called men of status and status treated her with cynicism and wanton negligence, the reclusive Mr. Brendis received Mrs. Green in his gentlemanly manner. It is superfluous for people who don't understand to say more, and people who understand don't even need too many words. With the "Fahrenheit 451" she sent, they have already established some kind of solid connection.
The movie opens a window when it closes the door to the miracle of the bookstore's survival. Christine, a child who doesn't love books, started from this bookstore and fell in love. Mrs. Green can't accompany her anymore, but with one book and one world, she has brought longer-term and broader companionship to her world.
Can the bad guys succeed? Are good people helpless? Only the world of children is divided into good people and bad people. Little Christine set fire to the old house, there is no bookstore here and nothing else.
"In a bookstore, people will never feel lonely." Christine grew up running her own bookstore.
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