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Preface
Maybe you've seen prose in articles, but have you ever seen a movie like prose?
This movie is such a movie, it seems to be fragmentary, but there is an inexplicable connection in the movie.
A completely different and scattered thing, but together they make up a wonderful artistic conception.
Cider and Rossi: In search of a picturesque childhood
The movie "Cider and Rosie" is based on the famous novel of the same name by Lori Lee.
Using the same tone as poetry to depict the picture scroll of the movie, when watching the movie, it is as if you are watching a poem.
At that time, the streets were not running in the streets, and the times were not so developed.
"Cider and Rosie" is one of the most classic "autobiographical trilogy" of Lori Lee's many works, the other two being "When I Ran Away on a Midsummer Morning" and "A Moment of War".
Perhaps influenced by the original, this film shows us a time and way of life that no longer exists.
He doesn't seem to be telling a complete storyline, but something that happens on the edge between the past and the future, the author's childhood.
The story takes place in the summer after World War I, when the protagonist, Laura, and her family have just moved into a new village.
That day, the heat slowly seeped out of the ground, and the remnants of the flowers hung down from the sky like snowdrifts;
The fields by the roadside were filled with the hum of haystacks, industrious bees and fluttering red butterflies.
Laura's family sat in a carriage and were greeted warmly along the way.
The fragrance of flowers unfolded with his memories.
He remembered that when he first arrived, the place was full of white flowers.
He felt that he had to record this place before it ceased to exist.
Due to the large number of children in the house, the mother was busy taking care of the youngest child, and Laura was almost put in a coffin when she fell ill one time.
Fortunately, his mother found out in time and found a doctor and a priest to save him.
Having witnessed the cruelty and horror of war, Laura felt that it was very calm and tranquil when she came to this rural field.
Laura was sick again, while he was lying in bed, by the top layer of the skin.
Laura felt like she could feel the whole valley presence, the passage of time, the change in climate, and the life to come.
His health gradually improved, but one day his mother came to his room and told him that his sister had been buried.
Laura is very sad, and he thinks that his sister gave her life to make her come back to life.
This is very precious to Laura, so he decides to live well, both for the sake of his dead sister and for himself.
Laura grew up and he was sent to school.
At first, the misfit Laura didn't fit well into the class.
But slowly he also got used to the school atmosphere and made some good friends.
Among them were two of his tablemates, both of whom were sweet-looking girls with completely opposite personalities.
Laura prefers the quiet and elegant girl at the table.
Explore the secret realm of youth with her, but can't help but be attracted by another naughty girl at the same table.
Perhaps influenced by her soldier father since she was a child, Laura one day put an iron basin on her head as a hat and told her mother that she wanted to be a soldier.
So his mother gave him a thick trunk and told him it was his rifle.
Equipped Laura, she goes to the mountains and pretends to be hunting.
But he suddenly saw a contingent of real German soldiers on patrol.
Laura is almost found, but fortunately the soldier James saves him.
At the same time, he also found that his sister and James often met in the mountains.
Summer came again, and a drought suddenly broke out in the country.
There was no longer any water to be pumped out of the spring, and everyone was very thirsty and very hot.
The kind neighbor grandmother brought the cherry wine she had brewed last year to Laura's family.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for a heavy rain to come and wash away the drought.
On this day, a banquet was held in the village, and Laura performed on stage with the quiet girl she liked.
One plays the violin and the other plays the piano.
Laura's mother looked at her son with relief from the audience.
After the banquet, Laura goes on an adventure with a few classmates at the urging of another girl at the same table.
accidentally broke the secret of several middle-aged men in the village.
One of the classmates was violently killed, but Laura's safety was not threatened.
As the days passed, one of Laura's two neighbor grandmothers died.
Laura comes to her home and looks at the "treasures" she used to fiddle with as a child.
He just did what his grandmother used to do, which was to hit the floor on his feet with a cane, and a few days later, the grandmother downstairs also died.
On a lawn-mowing day, Laura was working in the fields with the boys when she was taken away by Rosie, who suddenly arrived.
The two secretly sipped a bottle of cider together and kissed.
Laura finds herself preferring Rosie to her gentle, quiet tablemate, and he forgets that they used to write love letters to each other.
Laura and Rossi walked happily through the valley holding hands, along with the bottle of cider.
Laura happily jumped into the small lake to play, and even though it was raining, he was so happy that he lay directly on the ground.
Later, Laura's big sister and soldier James fall in love.
Despite his mother's strong opposition, he insisted on leaving home and living with James.
Later, when Laura grew up, it was time for him to go out and work hard.
So Laura packed her bags and said goodbye to her mother.
Mother and Laura tell the story of how they and Laura's father fall in love and sing their love song.
Then he silently wept, and at the same time swallowed the sadness of his own decades of waiting, and sent Laura away, who had grown up.
The mother watched Laura's departing back with tears in her eyes, and the film ended here.
Throughout the film, a male voice who has gone through vicissitudes of life is always reading the narration.
There are also some hidden meanings or thought-provoking meanings in this narration.
The narration and soundtrack have a different kind of emotion
Memories are a reminder that your life may be overshadowed at some point and change you forever, and memories are meant to be reminiscent, allowing you to go back to square one and relive that time again and again.
At the end of the film, when Laura leaves the house, she says:
At the age of 19, I am a little immature but I firmly believe in a bright future, stubborn and arrogant, living in the excitement of rage, knowing that there is still a long way to go.
The whole film has a very quiet tone, even if someone dies or the protagonist is very depressed.
It's all just a faint background music.
But some beautiful clips can't help but make people feel that the movie is always filled with a touch of sadness.
Or romantic, delicate emotions that don't need words.
Maybe it's about Laura's father, who works in London.
Since Laura was three years old, she has basically only been able to see her father through photos.
Laura rarely saw her father, and he rarely said he wanted to see them.
At one point, Laura and her mother, as well as her older siblings, were dressed up to welcome her father, who was about to come home.
But in the end, he received a telegram that his father was stranded in London.
The mother resisted the disappointment in her heart, comforted the children, and then arranged the dishes on the table alone.
The mother didn't cry bitterly, and the background music was not a rousing and sad song.
Perhaps the narrator once introduced Laura and her sister running happily in the fields:
"My sister was a beautiful but physically fragile child. ”
This seemingly casual statement laid the groundwork for her sister's death later.
Every time I think of the smiling faces of the two children, I can't help but feel a little sad in my heart.
Or maybe in the shadow of the apple tree, Laura and the quiet girl she liked, lingering in the valley.
is obviously a very beautiful picture, but it can't help but let people know that they will eventually separate, which is the charm of first love.
Many people spend their entire lives unable to let go of the past and forget it.
Even if we will hold each other's hands later, there is still the fragrance of each other in our dreams.
Moreover, it is also reflected in the love and killing feelings between Laura's two neighbor grandmothers.
Laura's two neighbor grandmothers live on the upper and lower floors, and they are both very tsundere old ladies.
Usually no one is used to seeing anyone, and always knocks on the floor upstairs or downstairs with his own crutches.
Even if it is a floor apart, the two old ladies have to quarrel.
is such a pair of enemies, but they care about each other arrogantly in the drought.
This is a simple, beautiful, and kind feeling.
Some people say that the film is made with a sense of poetry and fiction.
Watching a movie is like reciting poetry
Through the narration of the narration, the audience is told about the old days.
There are no visual and auditory stimuli, no plot twists, and no suspense that makes people conjecture.
It's so simple to depict the quiet years that the protagonist spends in the countryside.
And the whole film does not have a complete and clear storyline.
The film uses the technique of interpolation many times, switching back and forth between Laura's childhood and youth perspectives, telling the story of his childhood.
All in all, this movie is full of warm family, love, friendship, but also the confusion and pain of growing up.
It's a good movie to watch.
Because when watching movies, I can always appreciate my childhood.
Looking back on those unforgettable years, we realized that the most precious thing is the life we have experienced.
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