Miss Potter is a biographical film about beatrice Potter, a famous Victorian children's book writer who created Beatric Potter, which premiered in the UK in 2006.
Miss Potter was born into an aristocratic family in 19th-century British high society, and came from a well-to-do family, but she was mediocre in appearance, and her dress was dark and simple or even unremarkable, perhaps because she had no intention or disdain for pleasing others in appearance.
As a wealthy family, Miss Potter is not as high and blind as her mother. Miss Potter said not to look down on the businessman, her grandfather started in the printing and dyeing factory, and in the final analysis, this family is the carrier of desire, because it is as calculating, hypocritical and unscrupulous as other secular upstarts.
Miss Potter was tall, but not slender; her posture was still light and elegant, but it was far from the delicacy and delicacy of the women who mingled in the balls of aristocratic society; the distinct crow's feet in the corners of her eyes showed that her owner did not take any measures to grow wildly, but let it age; her makeup was also ordinary, had nothing to do with refinement, and of course she did not seem to be happy to spend time studying makeup techniques.
Miss Potter was lonely. Because she believed that the so-called aristocratic ladies who put all their minds every day on how to choose exquisite costumes, how to draw the most exquisite and cute and eye-catching makeup, how to train their behavior to meet the standards of noble etiquette prescribed by certain people, or to show off their style to attract the eyes of noble gentlemen, or to attend those so-called high-society parties, these are too boring, simply a waste of life. Miss Potter even thought that the aristocratic girls who behaved in this way were very pitiful, because they were uniform and thoughtless, and probably therefore she had few friends.
Miss Potter loved to read and draw, even if it was just to walk freely in nature, for only on these occasions was she truly free and happy. She often shut herself in her room, painting one painting after another, and from time to time talking to the characters in her paintings—she treated them as her closest friends and talked about them all.
Miss Potter had a gentle and kind heart. Her upbringing and knowledge are far above others. Once, when she went to visit a printing house, she accidentally spilled ink on her clothes, and her servant Jane did not clean the stains anyway. Miss Potter came home, learned about the dress, and said very sincerely to Jane, I'm sorry I soiled the clothes and caused you trouble... Such an attitude and language was not at all the posture of an aristocratic lady of that era who should have been on high. If it were not for the respect for the servant and the gratitude for the care of the servant, Miss Potter would never have been so humble, tolerant, sincere, and considerate of others.
Miss Potter and Norman's sister Millie agreed not to marry for life and be each other's best friends. At Christmas, Norman proposed to her, and she immediately asked Millie for advice, and said very intimately, I am with Norman, and you are alone. Such a well-meaning Miss Potter at all times!
Miss Potter was so talented and brilliant that she pushed away the noblemen her mother had helped her find suitable for marriage, for she felt that they were useless except for knighthoods and the property they could inherit.
Miss Potter said that she did not want to be like other girls, obsessed with how to marry a nobleman with financial conditions, but she was looking forward to people with similar interests, mutual appreciation, and lifelong companionship, and if this person never appeared, then she was also ready not to marry for life.
Even if she has serious differences with her parents in this regard, she still resists great pressure and unswervingly practices the values that she believes are correct, such as: people are not distinguished between high and low, they are born equal; they must choose to spend a lifetime with the people they love; they do not judge others by money and fame; and they maintain personality, thought, and economic independence, so that it is easier to achieve happiness.
But even miss Potter, who was as beautiful as a fairy tale, fate did not give her more love.
Her love was already a little later than the other girls, and it was very bumpy and tortuous. In the course of discussing the publication of Bit Rabbit, Miss Potter and Mr. Norman, the bookseller, confirmed each other's intentions. Their love story is very simple, there is no big event from beginning to end, there is no earth-shattering vow, it is so plain, thin and long,natural.
But the marriage was first opposed by Miss Potter's family. Mrs. Porter said that the Normans were publishers, lowly, not aristocratic circles, and were not in the right place with the Potter family. In desperation, Miss Potter had to agree to her parents' proposal: she went with her parents to the countryside lake area for a vacation, and was separated from Mr. Norman for 3 months, and if they still loved each other after 3 months and did not change their original intentions, the Potters agreed to their union. This test was nothing to Miss Porter and Mr. Norman, for the distance only made them miss each other more frequently.
"The good things in the world are not firm, and the clouds are easy to scatter and the glass is brittle", such a pure and beautiful love story seems to be doomed to escape the tragic ending. Norman died suddenly of illness. Miss Potter hurried back to London and saw Norman's sister, who could not accept that the lover she had long awaited had disappeared, and she had not had time to say goodbye to him. Listening to Millie recount the bits and pieces before Norman's death, Miss Potter gradually became like dirt. She came home and locked herself in her room for days without getting in or out of tears. Due to excessive sadness, Miss Potter even lost the inspiration to create. She had to switch environments to settle in the countryside.
Determined, confident, gentle, not afraid of the world, living out her true self, Miss Potter has always insisted on her love, pursued her dreams, and created one moving story after another - in such an extremely painful situation, she still strives to show the excitement of her own life.
In fact, it is not only Miss Potter, the script of life is often not staged according to our expectations, a short after a long period of loneliness, happiness suddenly stopped without warning, sadness or tears of joy, you never know at what moment it will come. Maybe this is the ups and downs, the joys and sorrows of the mixed flavor of life, the only thing we can do is to feel the ups and downs or rich calm of the moment.