When it comes to Jane Austen (December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817), young literary and artistic young people know that the famous British female novelist, the main works are "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility" Wait.
The great writer Mark Twain once said: A library is a good library as long as it does not have Austen's books. It can be seen that the influence of her works, her well-known novels have been adapted into movies many times.
What literary youth has not seen this movie?
Because Austin has lived in a country with strong feudal power all his life, and his family is well-off, his life circle is very small. This makes her works often limited to the stories of the daughters of ordinary squires falling in love and getting married, and her works also reflect the views of feudal forces to some extent. The works mainly reflect the moral standards of the family and society through the social communication and daily dialogue of ladies and gentlemen. This made Austen's work considered popular reading for a long time.
"Becoming Jane Austen", which tells the love story of her when she was young, is also a literary film that the petty bourgeoisie relishes. This still photo is probably used by many girls as avatars.
I watched an interesting movie recently and shared it: "The Jane Austen Book Club" (2007), I knew it was related to Austen and reading by hearing the name.
The story connects 6 readers with different personalities and obvious age gaps in the form of reading clubs. Due to various reasons, they swayed in the conflicts between feelings and family, and through the form of reading and communication, they gradually unraveled their own knots.
Jocelyn , who is in her forties , is single and likes to keep dogs. She has a deep affection for her dog. At the beginning of the film, her dog died, and she held a grand funeral for him and invited friends to attend.
She doesn't seem to be against falling in love either. In the film, she bluntly stated that she also has sexual partners on weekdays, but it seems unrealistic to think that other people's love is sweet or entangled, and she always feels that love is far away from her. The single life of these years did not cause her any trouble, and she lived a well-organized, peaceful and contented life. But in the eyes of friends, her life seemed to exude a certain sense of loneliness.
Daniel , the little fresh meat , fell in love with Jocelyn at first sight in the elevator, so struck up a conversation. Unfortunately, Ms. Qiao was not so enthusiastic and perfunctory. He followed her to the bar and watched her drink from a distance, his eyes kept looking at her. Ms. Qiao later stood up and apologized, and the two chatted for a while. This scene is particularly funny:
Ms. Qiao: What do you think of older women? (To the point, because she's older than this guy) Man: Well, I have three sisters... After a pause, he added: I like all women... Ms. Joe laughed.
Little fresh meat actor, handsome and handsome born in 1975: Hugh Dancy
In this way, the two knew each other, and Daniel was brought into this female-dominated reading club by his sister-but before that, he had never read Austin at all, and he even bought this thick full-length book.
High school French teacher Prudi , as a somewhat arrogant "petty bourgeoisie", feels that he can speak French, has culture and taste, and likes to pop up a French word when he speaks. In contrast, her husband, Dean, is much more mediocre. He likes pop culture, loves watching football games, and is simple-minded. These two very different people don't get along well.
Prudi regretted that he had never been to Paris, and was happily waiting for her husband to go with him on his holiday. He also bought a travel guide. Her husband suddenly told him that he had been arranged by the boss to accompany the client to watch a basketball game. God, this is a major blow to the sensitive and delicate Teacher Pu. She became more and more caring, suspicious of her husband's love, and critical... That's why she was dragged to the reading club-to pass the difficult time.
Teacher Pu's actor: Emily Blunt (Emily Blunt), I am very impressed by her, in 2009, she won the 67th Golden Globe Award for Best Actress nomination for "Young Victoria".
In fact, her sensitivity and harshness are all related to her growth experience. She lived alone with her mother since she was a child, and her mother gave her an old photo, but Prudy couldn't be sure whether the person in the photo was his father. Mom is careless and life is a mess. In the film, her mother appeared as a loud-voiced woman with heavy makeup who hurriedly lit a cigarette when she left the airport. Hey, what kind of girl is behind every little fresh? Maybe they all want to escape the panic and roughness of their original family, so they polished themselves into a small freshness of literature and art.
When the relationship between Teacher Pu and her husband became more and more fragile, she got closer and closer to a male student. She knew it was dangerous, but it was difficult to control herself. She didn't know why the emotion was so strong this time, and it started to go beyond the control of reason. In the process of participating in the Austin Book Club, Pruddy gained a better understanding of the emotions of men and women, and finally woke up at the red street light where he met with the students to open a room. Haha, how did you get the epiphany, please watch it yourself :)
Mature Silvia , married for 25 years, with grown children, does she look successful enough? Helpless, her husband cheated, but "Little San" was older than herself - a more mature middle-aged female. She was crying to her best friend (Jocelyn) and her daughter. When is she finished crying? Days have to go on.
In the Austin book club, she woke up by reading "Mansfield Manor": whether a marriage is strong is not determined by the strong party, but by the weakest party. Ms. Xi figured out that the breakdown of her marriage was not because she was not good enough and not firm enough in love, but Daniel's fault. It was because he fell into a mid-life crisis and was wandering, trying to find new possibilities for his life.
This is very similar to our life. How many girls who are crying for death suddenly wake up one day, and this process may originate from a book, a paragraph, or a travel?
The sixth friend of the book club is Ms. Xi's daughter, a cool LES. She still had some reservations about her identity at first, but later found out that her beloved girlfriend had written her and her story into a novel. She felt the shame of betrayal, broke up decisively, and was honest about her orientation.
The daughter is played by Margaret Grace
I don't know who in real life often participates in reading clubs. When we were in school, we organized a group to read French novels—often all girls, and some young people from different majors joined together to read. Sharing this week's harvest every week and recommending an interesting book to each other is a good spiritual complement.
The initiator of the book club, an eldest sister who has been married 6 times
In the film, at every Austin Book Fair, everyone expresses their feelings in their own lives and their thoughts on the story, and it becomes their own subjective product. Everyone, through reading, communication, and discussion, sort out the mess in life and try to find a way to solve their own problems.
Because of common hobbies or common dilemmas, form a book club, and then change your life through reading. This movie also puts forward a beautiful idea for us who are rolling in the secular world: Yunyun men and women, who has no love and catastrophe? Let’s get together to read, maybe we’ll think about it, hee hee.
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