I Watch Films: Brief Encounter
Brief Encounter Laura Jessen and Alec Harvey are sitting at the tea table of a railway refreshment room, both looking glum. A friend of Laura’s arrives and starts chatting; Laura distractedly introduces Alec as a doctor, going in the other direction, and how he will soon be going to Africa. Alec leaves and there’s a little confusion, Laura seems unwell. Back at home Laura and her husband talk of nothing much, then she thinks back on her relationship with Alec. She doesn’t speak but she phrases it as a confession to her husband in the voice over (in her mind). It turns out she met Alec when she got something in her eye at the refreshment room. (The refreshment room and the regular staff of the station who come in and out there form a contrasting thread to the main story). He got it out and made sure she was okay. It turns out that Thursday is her regular day, she comes into town, does some shopping, goes to the cinema etc. At the start she’s buying a radio for her husband’...
