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[Movie Review] The Bookshop (2017)

This movie is an adaptation of a novel from the same title which is written by Penelope Fitzgerald. I never read the book, but I fell in love with the movie. The music score and the soundtrack of the movie took a big part of making the movie become how good it is. For me personally, to be hooked onto and into a movie, a book even a song, is to be hooked since the beginning of the pieces. With this movie, the opening scene hooked me. This movie is brought by having a third person talking to you about the story, it was like having someone read you a story and then the scene is like the pictures how the story goes. And at the first line of the narration, which is the first scene that shoot focus on a pile of books then the narrator spoke the first line, this movie already have my attention. Throughout the movie, I tried to read the characters expression and understand the inner conflict that the characters are having. I think the actors and the actresses play the r...