British cinema has always been characterized by strange imagination, ups and downs, and full of suspense.
The ending is usually unexpected, and the language is also full of implications, which is somewhat different from reality.
The characters are also mysterious, and this "Lady Who Lives in the Van" is contrary to the plot of the movies we often watch, its plot is plain and simple, and the style is still a little peculiar.
First, Shepbold moved twice
The protagonist, named Alain Bennett, is a playwright who has an elderly mother, and the two usually live alone. The mother always asked Bennett if the two could live together, and each time Bennett politely refused.
Bennett rarely communicates with his mother in real life, but there is a lot of mention of mother in the work. Women, from the beginning of our mothers, are the names we remember and the last to forget in our lives.
On this day, he was at the door of the church, an old woman asked Bennett to help push the cart, Bennett helped the old woman push the cart but did not know where she was going to push, and the police car passing by made the old woman nervous.
Her car stopped at No. 66, and the neighbors hated the old woman and greeted her with kindness, thinking that they should not stop in front of their house.
Shepard seemed to hate music, and the sound of music came from No. 66 every day, and she had to move again, this time across from Bennett's house at No. 62.
Gradually, Bennett learned that the old woman's name was Shepard, that she had driven ambulances on the battlefield, worked as a nun, and lived on social welfare.
Bennett's quiet life of solitude was broken by the old woman, who had not bathed for a long time, and had a foul smell on her body, and he hated the old lady, but it was Bennett who had the most contact with Shepard.
He invited Shepard to the house, but was surprised to find that she spoke fluent French and liked bright yellow. She painted the worn-out van yellow with a pot brush, and when she painted it, she looked like a lively child.
Bennett was a hot-faced man who stepped forward when someone came over and shook Shepard's car. As Shebod grew older, she began to worry about being left homeless, worried about running out of gas in her car, worried about being chased, and her age made her unable to withstand bumps.
Bennett asked the old woman to park in a private parking space in her yard, and neighbors called him crazy, but he did it anyway.
Romain Rolland once said: "A gentle attitude is indeed a great comfort to a heart that is despised."
Needless to say, the old woman's wandering heart had landed. This stay was 15 years, and Bennett's heart was fixed, and he finally did not have to worry about Shepodd anymore.
Ii. Shepard and Music
Shepard would also drive to run her own business, and she would sell pencils at stalls. When passers-by throw coins in her money jar, she will explain out loud: "I'm a freelancer, I'm not a beggar." ”
Sheppod's body was undoubtedly filthy, but her personality was clean. She never thanked the people who helped her, and she never accepted her things at will.
She has a certain arrogance of a rich man and a little bit of a poet's purity.
Every once in a while there was always an elderly man asking her for money, and the truth was that Shepard was once on the road when a guy riding a motorcycle crashed into her car, and instead of calling the police, she was not guilty. This escape, escaped to the present.
The man was a retired policeman who had tried Shepard's case, and because there was no proof of death, Shepard had to give up.
In this way, Shepod and Bennett lived without disturbing each other for a few more years, and the new train funded by the government became an old truck. But this time Bennett put on the music, and Shebod covered his ears and walked over to Bennett.
When he was young, Shebod saw the piano when he was a nun and stayed alone in the convent, so he couldn't help but play it, but was stopped by the housekeeper because the rules there were no permission.
Sheppod also asked why, but this was seen as an argument, a debate that meant disobedience and that one would be removed from the ranks of nuns. Since then, she has been praying every day and staying away from music.
Shebod undoubtedly likes music, but she hides her love forever in her heart, and the rules and regulations allow her to hide her love for music.
III. Shepard and his mother
Shebod got a tricycle, turned it yellow again, drove to the beach, rode on a carousel, ate ice cream, and finally went to the seniors club to listen to a piano performance.
Shebod grew older, and she began to be unable to control her own feces. Bennett worried about the elderly woman because she was so much like her mother, who was sick and lying in the hospital.
"Antibiotics can be used if you are young, but for older people, it is a mercy not to use antibiotics," the doctor said.
This means that the mother is likely to die in her sleep. Bennett wrote a one-man show in which a mother talks to a child in which the mother says, "If I die you'll be happy, I'll die."
You're going to make me unhappy when you're dead, Mom, you're not going to die.
She said, "No, I'm not going to die. ”
Sheppod grew older, and Bennett contacted the community service station, thinking that Shebod would not agree, but this time she carefully agreed.
In a wheelchair, she had the temperament of a wandering aristocrat.
She slipped a note into Bennett's hand, and Bennett looked at the note to find Shepard's brother's residence.
It turned out that Sheppod's real name was Margaret, and she was a student of the great pianist Corto, who had played in concerts, and she was noble and elegant at that time, and later became a nun.
When she arrived at the community aid station, Shepard became very clean, and the nurse helped her take a bath and comb her hair. She saw a piano and played it slowly, the beautiful melody flowing in her old hands.
She returned to her own tricycle, Bennett came to visit her with a bouquet of flowers, and Shepod asked Bennett to grab his hand, the first contact between the two in 15 years, and her hands were clean.
The next day, during the day, Shepard passed away. And the first person to find out about her death was a caregiver, and Bennett felt a little jealous because he wasn't the first to find out.
Perhaps Shepard knew he was running out of time when he asked Bennett to hold his hand. She walked peacefully, and the woman who thought she was guilty was finally free.
She must have been glad that she would meet the dead motorcycle boy, and then she would go to heaven with a contented smile.
Bennett wrote a book called The Lady Who Lived in the Van.
This film reveals people's emotions, longing but timid, not wanting to get close but also do not want to stay away.