故事平淡，氣韻迷人。偌大一個城鎮，卻容不下一間書店。

這隻狗長得也太凶了，不過演技也太好了吧。白狗指專門攻擊黑人的狗。人類訓練出來的產物，太可悲了~~~

「Understanding makes the mind lazy.」「You'd really do that? Really? Come out of your seclusion for me? → Indeed I will.」「She had fulfilled the dream, and they'd snatched it away from her. But what she possessed deep down was something no one could ever take away from her. Her courage. And it was that courage and her passion for books that she bequeathed to me, along with the Chinese lacquered tray.」「How right she was when she said that no one ever feels alone in a bookshop.」【Julie Christie - Narrator (uncredited)】

音樂的本質不就是這樣嗎。

一個巨大的隱喻，寂寂謀生的居民，距離遙遠卻又無所不在的權勢，外表親切優雅內裏自私冷血的當權者（雖然是個女性）；淩駕於自己的丈夫、他人、舊的老的好傳統，趕走一個革新者，讓她不名一文，好在，總有孩子被曾經的反抗所影響。“死亡很容易，隻要說一聲：他們死了。”極致的權勢的傲慢。