BBC推荐：疫情时期抚慰人心的老电影（上）

电影可以帮你暂时逃离残酷的现实，可以安抚你紧张的情绪，可以驱散你的烦恼。在这样的特殊时期，我们更需要看一些让我们感到平静和快乐的电影。BBC文化频道针对不同需求推荐了多部老电影，一起来看看。

Still from film Top Hat. Credit: Continental Home Vídeo
If you want to be footloose and fancy-free让你感觉自由自在、无忧无虑的电影
In times of trouble, it can be oddly uplifting to see people with no troubles at all. One example would be J Harold Manners, the blithe millionaire played by Harold Lloyd in For Heaven’s Sake (1926). While the other great silent comics’ characters are often buffeted by crime and hardship, Lloyd’s trademark persona is breezily positive, and never more so than when Manners floats through this buoyant Sam Taylor comedy, writing cheques without hesitation whether he needs to buy a car or establish a mission for the poor. Another example would be Henry Fonda’s Charles Pike in The Lady Eve (1941), a brewery heir with nothing to worry about except being pursued by Barbara Stanwyck’s gold-digging dame. But the definitive footloose and fancy-free movie idols must be Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, who gave Depression-era audiences a glittery glimpse of high society in Top Hat (1935) and Carefree (1938).