BBC推荐：疫情时期抚慰人心的老电影（上）(3)

尽管没有医学证明，但是你在听完了《Fit as a Fiddle》、《Make "em Laugh》、《Moses Supposes》和《Good Morning》这几首曲子后很可能心情会好起来，所以接下来几周你应该看看那部拥有这些美妙的歌曲和舞蹈的电影，每天至少一次。吉恩·凯利、黛比·雷诺兹、唐纳德·奥康纳主演的1952年电影《雨中曲》是最受欢迎的好莱坞音乐电影。不过，事实上，几乎任何一部优秀的音乐电影都有足以振奋精神的活力和乐趣，比如，1948年电影《花开蝶满枝》、1953年电影《龙国香车》到1980年电影《福禄双霸天》和1986年电影《异形奇花》。

Still from film When Harry Met Sally. Credit: Castle Rock Entertainment
If you want to fall in love让你体会恋爱滋味的电影
A film so comforting that it has an item of soft furnishing in its title, Pillow Talk (1959) stars Doris Day as a career woman who can’t stand her playboy neighbour (Rock Hudson) who hogs their shared phone line. Why is it such a pleasure? One reason is that the most tense dramatic question is whether its devastatingly attractive heroine and hero will get together (of course they will), while the characters boast such aspirational lifestyles in the meantime. The best romantic comedies let you imagine that you, too, could wear those clothes, lounge around in those apartments, and have that flirtatious badinage in those metropolitan nightclubs and restaurants, so snuggle up with Doris and Rock – or, if you prefer, Hugh and Andie in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) or Billy and Meg in When Harry Met Sally (1989).