1. "Letter from a Strange Woman"
In 1885, 14-year-old Lisa (Joan Fontaine) has a crush on the pianist Stephen (Louis Jordan louis jourdan), who lives next door. The mercurial Stephen often brought women into his apartment, while the young Lisa was envious of the mysterious world. Even after moving away, she still has an unforgettable memory of the pianist. When she came out as a beautiful girl, she came back to find the pianist and had a relationship with him. The pianist soon forgot Lisa like any other woman. Lisa gave birth to his son and later married an Austrian nobleman. 15 years later, the two meet again, leaving her husband for the last time to dedicate herself to the only man she loves, and the pianist plays tricks on her as usual and quickly forgets her. When her son eventually died of typhoid fever, Lisa wrote a long letter to the pianist about her love that had never stopped for 15 years.
"You, and I have never lived a long life!" My child died yesterday. In this world, I have only you now, only you, and you know nothing about me. "My life really began the day I met you."
2. Mary and Marx
Mary and Marx is an Australian clay animation that opens at the Sundance Film Festival. In 1976, 8-year-old Mary Daisy Dingle (voiced by Bethni Whitmore) was a little girl in Melbourne, Australia, who loved the cartoon "Noblit", sweet condensed milk and chocolate. Mary's mother was an alcoholic, and her father, who worked in a tea packing factory, only liked to make bird specimens on weekdays. Lonely Mary, who had no friends, one day wrote a letter to Max Jerry Horowitz (voiced by Philip Seymour Hoffman) of New York City, asking where the American child came from, along with a cherry chocolate bar. The 44-year-old Marx, who suffers from autism and obesity, also happens to enjoy watching "Noblitt" cartoons and eating chocolate. The two remained pen-friendly from 1976 to 1994, during which time each experienced many life ups and downs, until the adult Mary (voiced by Toni Collette) finally came to New York to see Marx.
"When I was young I wanted to be anyone but myself, Dr. Bernard Haschoff said that if I was on an isolated island then I would have to adapt to being alone, with only Coconut and me, and he said I had to accept myself."
3. Cape Seven
In Hengchun, a beautiful town nestled by the sea, Ajia (Fan Yichen), a young man whose musical dreams have been hit in Taipei, is watching everything coldly. Although he became a substitute postman with the help of his father, the chairman of the Mindai Dynasty, the letters and parcels were piled up in the room by him, and for a parcel that could not be delivered from Japan, he did not return it according to the instructions of the old postman Mao Bo (Lin Zongren), but opened it privately to check it: except for a yellowed photo of a young girl, it was several letters written 60 years ago. At that time, Japan was defeated in World War II, and the Japanese teacher (Takasuke Naka) in Taiwan abandoned his girlfriend who had eloped with the Japanese army, and on the way back to Japan, he turned his love and remorse into words, but the letter was not sent by his daughter until his death. And how will these letters map Ajia's life?
"I am a poor teacher, why should I bear the sin of a famous family?" The fate of the times is the sin of the times, I am just a poor teacher, I love you, but I must give up on you. "This ocean can't tolerate love, at least it can tolerate lovesickness." "Thinking of this vulgar word, it will be like a dark shadow in the sun, and I will escape his chase... I chased him to escape... lifetime. ”
4. "Love Letters"
On a snowy winter day in Kobe, Japan, Hiroko Watanabe (Miho Nakayama) was once again so sad that she could not help herself on the third anniversary of her ex-fiancé Fujii Tree. Unable to suppress her longing for her deceased lover, Hiroko Watanabe found out in the middle school classmates' directory that "Fujii Tree" had addressed when she was studying in Otaru City, and sent a love letter that she thought was sent to heaven. Not long after Watanabe Hiroko received a reply signed "Fujii Shu (Miho Nakayama)", she learned that fujii tree was a girl of her age and a classmate of her boyfriend Fujii (Takashi Kashiwara) when he was a teenager. In order to learn more about her former lovers in middle school, Hiroko Watanabe began to exchange letters with the female Fujii Tree. In her constant memories, Fujii tree gradually discovered that the Fujii tree with the same surname as her when she was a teenager had hidden a tender feeling for herself.
"How are you?" I was fine"
5. "Big Nose Love"
Sihano (Gérard depardieu) is wild and kind-hearted, and he silently loves his cousin Roxanne (Anne Brochet), but he is born with a big ugly nose, and even though he is talented, he does not dare to show his heart to his cousin. Just as Sihano finally writes his love letter and prepares to show affection, Roxanne tells him that he is in love with the handsome recruit Christie (Vincent Perez Vincent Perez). Sihano then put his admiration for Roxanne into writing and delivered it to Roxanne in the name of Christie. Who knew that the officers who had long harbored ill intentions against Roxanne had transferred Christie to fight in Arras. After Christian's death, Roxanne lived in the monastery. For 15 years, Sihano visited her every Saturday at three o'clock in the afternoon. The only time he was late was because he was hit in the head by someone who hated him, and after seeing Roxanne, he only asked to recite for Roxanne the last letter that Christian had written to her, which was what Roxanne carried with him. When Sihano recited the contents of the letter in the dark with great emotion and without hindrance, Roxanne finally realized that Sihano was the person she had loved for many years.
"This letter of love, which I have thought about a hundred times in my heart, until everything is ready, I put my soul next to the paper, and I just follow it and transcribe it. I am right between your palms, this piece of paper, it's my voice; this ink, it's my blood; this letter, it's me. ”
6. Atonement
In the summer of 1935, Brioni (Soritz Ronan), a 13-year-old girl from a well-to-do British family, had just begun to experiment with writing and her imagination was rich. One day, she secretly discovers that the servant's son, Robbie Turner (James McVoy), and her sister Cecilia (Kate Knightley) have an ambiguous relationship, and discovers that he has written her an erotic love letter. Brioni's rich imagination imagined all kinds of terrible things, and imagination came to mind. When her cousin Lola was raped, Brioni was fairly certain that she saw that Robbie had done it, and this time the testimony led to Robbie's wrongful imprisonment, leaving a heartbroken Cecilia.
When World War II broke out, robbie and Cecilia were both thrown into the fight to defend their homeland after their release, and Brioni gave up her education at Cambridge to become an army medic. No one could understand what she was doing, only she knew she was harboring great secrets and self-blame. She plucked up the courage to unravel this secret so that she could truly atone for her sins and be forgiven. However, things have changed drastically, out of Brioni's budget...
"I'll come back, find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame." "So my sister and Robbie have never been able to be together as they both longed for, and they deserve to be together." Since then, I have always felt that I shattered their wishes. But what hope and satisfaction can such an ending bring to the reader? So in the book, I want to give Robbie and Cecilia what they have lost in their lives. ”
7. The Messenger
Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) has just returned home from an injured mission in Iraq, and although he has a pleasant day with his girlfriend Kelly (Gina Malone) after being discharged from the hospital, the two finally break up. Due to the expiration of his service, Will was transferred to the Casualty Notification Service center and served under Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson). During the casualty notification mission, Will and Tony encounter various situations, including being beaten and verbally abused by emotional relatives. While relaying the news of her husband's death to Olivia Peterson (Samantha Morton), Will worries that Olivia, an orphaned and widowed mother under her strong exterior, will not be able to bear it, and after many times to take care of her mother and son, the two gradually develop a good feeling. However, Tony is dissatisfied with Will's violation of the "Casualty Notification Code of Conduct" at every turn, and after a conflict, the two finally speak of the deep pain that has been suppressed in their hearts for a long time.
8. "If Love Had Providence"
Zi Xi (Sun Yizhen), a college student in 2003, cleans up her room one day and accidentally finds a mysterious box full of love letters left by her mother Zhu Xi (Sun Yizhen), and she relives her mother's memories of her first love as she reads. In 1968, Zhu Xi, a pure and lovely young girl, fell in love with poor student Jun ha (Cao Chengyou) at first sight, and due to Zhu Xi's prominent family lineage, the love between the two fell into the painful entanglement of the cheesy door and wrong household. Zixi's love in 2003 is also bumpy, she has a crush on Shang Min (Zhao Yincheng) of the Drama Society, but she has been difficult to express her love. Cleverly, Zixi found that her mother's story of her first love was very similar to what happened to herself. Can I be happy? Or is it as tortuous as a mother?
"I'm such a big idiot, I can't do anything but like you"
9. "Notes: I Love You"
Holly (Hillary Swank) and Gehry (Gerald Butler) love each other, and although they sometimes quarrel, these are the interests of their lives. Holly felt like she had found her love, but Gehry died of brain cancer after their marriage. Since then, Holly has lived in the pain of losing her beloved. She traps herself in the house, and her two best friends, Danny (Lisa Cudjo), Sarah and Holly's mother, and Daniel, the bartender at her mother's bar, are all worried about her. From the day of her thirtieth birthday, she continued to receive letters from Gehry, each with a "I love you" note at the end. Gehry's letter injects strength into Holly's life, and she moves forward step by step, but in fact, Gehry is dead, and she will eventually have to live alone. Daniel has been with Holly since he met holly, and Daniel expresses his love to holly. Holly ran into her mother's arms for the first time and cried bitterly, and she also knew that Gehry's letter had been sent by her mother. The last letter will be opened, will Holly be born again?
"I know this is the last letter, because there is only one last thing left to tell you, not to feel nostalgic for the past or ask you to buy a lamp or something, to take good care of yourself without my help, just to tell you how you moved me, how you changed me, and you used your love to make me a real man." Holly, I've always been grateful. If you can promise me something, please promise me when you feel lonely, or unsure... Or when you lose your faith... You will try hard and gaze at yourself through My Eyes. ”
10. The Age of Innocence
The young lawyer, Daniel Day-Lewis, will step into the high society of 19th-century New York because of her engagement to Miss Winona Ryder. However, on the eve of the engagement, he met May's cousin, Alan, who had just divorced and returned to New York from Europe, and the two were in love with each other at first sight. However, Alan's bold behavior and self-pursuit style are not accepted and allowed by the high society, and she is a nasty monster in the eyes of everyone. Nurem realized the preciousness of this character, and was impressed by this character, if he could not be with the person he loved, if his life was not for himself but for the number of courtesies to live decently, how empty and pale life would be. Nurren wants to elope with Alan, but May falls ill. Although they wanted to pursue their own happiness, but they also did not want to hurt others, the lovers finally chose to let go. Nuron and May are married, and the temperamental and good-natured May has always been in the center of innocence. However, it wasn't until Mei's death that they saw the other side of things.
"He swore to himself that if she turned around while the boat was driving the lime signs, he would go to her."
11. "Letter from a Strange Woman"
In the late winter of 1948, a man (Jiang Wen) receives a thick letter from a dying woman who tells a lingering love story about which the hero of the story knows nothing. The story begins 18 years ago: a girl (Xu Jinglei) falls in love with the writer who lives next door when she is 13 years old. Later, the little girl moved elsewhere because of the family's troubles, but she could never forget the writer who used to live next door. A few years later, the little girl returned to her original residence as a student, reunited with the writer, and dedicated her first night to him, but the writer had no impression of the little girl who had once lived next door. After the two had sex several times, the writer left because of the incident and said that he would contact her immediately after returning, but he has not been heard from since. The girl finds herself pregnant in desperate waiting, and because of her love for the writer, she decides to give birth to the child. After the birth of the child, life became more and more difficult, and in order to let the child live a superior life, the girl had to rely on the rich man and live like a prostitute. A few years later, she finally met the writer she had loved for many years again, and the two had another night of joy, but the writer still did not recognize her. After a few more years, the child fell ill and died, and the girl wrote the past into a letter and sent it to the writer.
"As long as you call me, I will be in the grave, and I will gush out a force and stand up."
12. 84 Charing Cross Street
The female writer Helen (Anne Bancroft) lives in New York, and she is often frustrated that she can't buy the rare books she needs. By chance, she found an advertisement in a magazine from a British used bookstore and tentatively wrote a book list to the owner of the Mark bookstore at 84 Charing Cross Street in London. Soon, Mark's Bookstore surprised her beyond imagination: she bought the rare books she had been searching for, and also received frank (Anthony Hopkins) sincere recommendation of rare books. Since then, two people who love books have begun a 20-year exchange of letters. Helen not only asked Frank for hard-to-find books, but also shared her reading experience with him. The two exchanged literary views and commented on the works of famous artists. Frank traveled around buying rare books for Helen, while Helen sent hearty food from the United States to alleviate the food shortage caused by the British physical rationing system for the bookstore staff. The two became spiritual friends through continuous correspondence. Helen had always wanted to visit Frank in London, but was unable to do so due to various unexpected circumstances. It wasn't until she received a letter from Frank's death that she finally boarded a plane to England, while the Mark's Bookstore at 84 Charing Cross Street was facing demolition.
"Frank, I'm finally... "The good man who sold me all the books died a few months ago, and the owner of the bookstore died, but the bookstore is still there. If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Street, can you kiss it for me? I owe it so much. ”
13. "Parting Letter"
At the age of 23, John (Channing Tatum) stopped going to school after graduating from high school, and spent his days in a bar drinking and having fun, but never saw true love. Until one day, he resolutely joined the army, and when he returned home from vacation, under the bright sun and on the beach in his hometown, he met Savina (Amanda Seyfried amanda seyfried) in the middle of her fantasy years. 21-year-old Savina, who grew up in a far cry from John, is different from John's wandering skeleton, she is simple, kind, frank, has firm ideas and beliefs, and has clear and clear goals. Through Shavina, John reacquainted himself with love. The sweet time together was always short, and John had to return to the army and even be stationed overseas. Time passed day by day, and this long-distance relationship, which was maintained by letters and occasionally allowed to meet each other, finally ended with a parting letter from Saviniana. Heartbroken, John did not immediately call Savannah, nor did he immediately fly back to his hometown, but just folded the letter and put it back in the envelope, deciding to take it with him everywhere, as if carrying an injury to the battlefield.
Years later, John, who has never been able to forget, comes to Savannah's house, discovers the secret behind the breakup letter, gradually learns the truth of the matter, and has the opportunity to make a new choice, but his decision is...
"Don't comfort me when you leave me, knowing that every stitch will also suffer from puncture pain."
14. The elevator was rescued
It is said that this is the most difficult intelligence test question in history, and the iq cannot be answered without reaching 140, and the estimate below 100 cannot understand the answer. Want to measure your IQ no? Hurry up and challenge! A woman was followed by a man who walked into the elevator to find that the man had followed. She asked the man to press first, and the man pressed the 2nd floor, so she pressed the 3rd floor.
On the 2nd floor, the man got out of the elevator and smiled back at her. The moment the elevator closed, she saw the man pull out his knife and walk to the 3rd floor. The woman died.
So how can the woman be rescued when the 3rd floor cannot be cancelled???