The last time I watched a movie about book clubs was "Jane Austen Book Club" six years ago. I found the movie after reading the novel. However, although this "Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Club" has added elements of World War II, it still has the relaxed and warm atmosphere of the Austin Book Club, rather than exaggerating the cruelty of war.
Like Midge in the American TV series "The Marvelous Mrs Maisel", the protagonist of this film, Julia, started out as a woman who never found her true self in a seemingly perfect and rich life. In the 1946s, the endless book fairs, dance parties and handsome, golden and "infatuated" officer boyfriends let her, as a famous writer, roam one beautiful atmosphere after another. Until her home in Lavender Lane, London, received a letter from Guernsey called Dowsey, expressing her gratitude for her work and asking her to help find a copy of "Shakespeare Tales" written by Charles Lamb, Then she mentioned the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Club, which made her curious about this strange place and this strange group of readers. Otherwise, she can't be called a writer without curiosity, and she decided to set off to find out after several times of letterheads. Before leaving, her boyfriend Mark proposed to marry him on the dock. Judging from Juliet's voice, although she was shocked and joyful, her first reaction was reluctance, which also paved the way for the breakup of the two.
The pictures of the movie are interspersed in 1945 and 1940 based on the characters' memories and narratives. The narrative perspective is relatively clear, unlike the "Marilyn" I have seen before, I don't know if it is true or not when I look at it, it happened. what...
Five friends from Guernsey went out during the wartime night curfew, and in order to get rid of suspicion when they were interrogated, they casually joked that they were running a book club called the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Club. In order to convince the lie, so began to meet regularly. Unexpectedly, under the devastation of the war, several of them found a little peace of mind in one book after another, temporarily "forgetting the war, forgetting the Nazi occupation, and being able to remember what human nature is like". It was the magic of books that held this group together. What moved Julia was also the commonality seen in this story, because they both believed that "books can be a common refuge for all"!
Julia is a person who does not follow blindly and earnestly seeks. When she temporarily lived in her first residence in Guernsey, she had a clear position on the landlord's comments about Elizabeth. Later, she was disturbed by the landlord and moved overnight to book club member Yili. Sora comes home. Isola is a somewhat introverted and shy lady who specializes in wine, gin. The two were lying on the same bed, drinking wine, just like talking to a girl, which is one of the tender scenes in the movie. Isola, who has never been in a relationship, keeps asking about Julia's fiancé. She thinks Julia's publisher, Sidney, is a mysterious fiancé. However, Julia said that if my name is George or Tom, he might fall in love with me, and then The expressions they got from each other were funny. Julia asked Isola if she had never been in a relationship. Isola was full of beautiful vision and said that thinking of the sweetness of Heathcliff's final appearance, all the waiting was worth it. If I haven't read Wuthering Heights, I don't understand why the role of Heathcliff makes Isola a special liking.
When she first arrived in Guernsey, Julia was invited to the book club to share. Reading Charles Lamb's Shakespeare Tales and Jane Eyre discussing Essays of Elijah and Jane Austen, the picture is warm and beautiful. However, Elizabeth in the book club has become a character that everyone keeps silent. When she first asked Emilia, Juliet was closed, which inspired her determination to stay in Guernsey and investigate. Elizabeth's story is connected through the narration of each member of the book club. Although she hated the war and hated the Nazis during the war, she still believed in the goodness of human nature, so she fell in love with a kind Nazi officer. Even though she lost three relatives in the war, Emilia, who treated her as her own daughter, asked them to After breaking up, she was still able to hold on to herself. In the scene of the dispute, the details of the small holes in Emilia's sweater coat are full marks. The Nazi boyfriend's boat was torpedoed, but Elizabeth was pregnant, and she still tried her best to help the war-torn people like an angel, unaffected by her role as a mother. She is a person who thoroughly "follows her heart", so after entrusting her daughter to Daoshi, she lost the news when she ran out in the middle of the night to help a child go to the hospital to get supplies.
Julia called her boyfriend Mark based on the information obtained, and after Mark investigated, flew over in person to pass on the information of Elizabeth's last appearance. By this time, Julia had already received the influence of Elizabeth, and her true self had begun to sprout. As she said when she finally returned her engagement ring to Mark, she "will find herself sooner or later, even if she's not going anywhere!". And the effect of finding herself is that she falls in love with Dosey, who wrote him in the first place, who seems to be sloppy within himself but keeps his promise to raise Elizabeth's daughter like a real dad.
In the end, Elizabeth's news was still bad news. Even if she was arrested, she still bravely went to save the child and was eventually shot. Having given the book club the confirmed news, Julia set off for London. When she got home, Julia promised the book club people not to publish their stories, but she was unhappy, causing the landlady who used to complain about her "typewriter sounds worse than gunshots" in the middle of the night. Yes, called her publisher Sidney and complained that "silence is scarier than typing", so cute!
She finally found herself and found her true purpose as a writer, wrote this story down and mailed it to book club members, a good story is worth recording, and it is up to the owner of the story to publish it or not, and, she said This work has no author.
After the story was written, Julia set off to look for Dowsy, who, after receiving her letter, immediately set off to look for her in London, and like all stories, there is always a little twist at the last minute, almost missed but still. They found each other in the crowd at the pier, and they all rejoiced.
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