First of all, I would like a certain star, and then we will pay special attention to his/her works and read her works? First of all, let me answer, I am such a person.
(Yui Niigaki)
When I first saw the screening, because The wife of The New Yuki was one of the main actors, and it was related to the content of table tennis competition, I put it into the list of films I wanted to see early. It's just that I forgot about things, and I didn't finish it until today.
(Strong cast of Cass)
Before I saw a movie, my first reaction was whether this kind of film would just have a happy ending, for example, the protagonists would turn the tide in the last game, win the game, and blossom.
It's like "Breaking Bad Munich" and "WrestleMania!" Daddy", "Ip Man", "Iron Fist" and so on. The protagonist wears a halo on his head, perfectly defeats his opponent, and finally has a family reunion, is he not fragrant?
(Ip Man Movie Source)
In fact, "Love Boomerang" wasn't what I thought. A mixed doubles of Yui Niigaki and Eita Nagayama, who unfortunately lost in the final final of the play.
However, the director's way of thinking is also very clever, and it is precisely because they lose this game that the characters in the film begin to reconcile with their past and start a different new life.
The final rounding is equivalent to the fact that the movie still has a family ending.
(Final Match)
This is really a master operation, and the theme of the film is suddenly very clear:
It's really not because the wife is the main actor.
Warning, the following contains a lot of spoilers
Tamako (Yui Niigaki) was trained by her mother to play ping-pong from an early age, and is considered a talented table tennis girl. However, Tamako did not believe in her own strength so much, and under the dual pressure of losing the game and the strict teaching of Tamako's mother, table tennis gradually became a childhood shadow in her heart.
Until the middle school era, Tamako's mother died of illness, and Doman decided to be an ordinary person, live the life that ordinary people should live, and no longer wanted to touch ping-pong.
So after more than ten years of such a bland and plain, Tamako became an ordinary white-collar worker.
One day, at the company, she accidentally meets the childhood table tennis goddess Akihiko Edjima (Yasushi Seto), and the male god seems to have some interest in Tamako. The two began to interact frequently.
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Dating together, eating, and exchanging gifts, so that the two of them established a relationship, and the male god also gave the key to his house to Tamako, which can spoil Tamako. Tamako decides to come to his house to surprise the male god with a birthday.
Unexpectedly, the male god is a complete scumbag (I already knew it), and when he took the company employee home to applaud for love, Tamanko directly bumped into him.
Tamako could not withstand the blow, and casually made up a reason to submit a resignation letter, and wanted to return to her hometown and heal her emotional wounds.
(Touching the head)
The story begins here in the main film
(Is it the procrastination I talked about, or the director's pot)
Tamako's hometown also runs a table tennis room called "Ah Hua", which is the legacy of Tamako's mother. Helplessly, the ball room was not well managed, and the father of the multi-son still had to pay off the debt, and the father decided to sell the ball room.
In order to reduce the burden on her family, on the one hand, she decided to regain the table tennis racket, win the championship in the national competition, and revitalize the former glory of her family's table tennis room.
On the other hand, she knows that the scumbag will definitely go to the competition, and Domanko secretly competes in her heart, wanting to redeem it with a beautiful report card (?). Scumbag's heart.
Coming to her own field of expertise, Domanzi is full of energy, she clearly understands that with her own strength, she cannot defeat those professional opponents in a short period of time, so she came up with a way to sign up for the mixed doubles event, so that the quality of the opponent will be appropriately reduced, and the difficulty coefficient will be reduced a lot.
In this way, the male and female protagonists officially came together (ah no) and officially became a pair.
When it came to the day of the national qualifier competition, Takumanzi really saw the scumbag and the scumbag boyfriend and girlfriend on the field, and her heart was not a taste, and she was even more absent-minded when playing the game.
As a result, there was no surprise, the three teams in the Ah Hua Table Tennis Room who appeared for the first time lost miserably, some people skipped the game, and Tamanko even injured his ankle.
Frustrated, the group began to enter the stage of self-abandonment.
Do you think that's the end of it? Not yet.
The director began to inject a "heart-saving agent". He introduced a new term called "motivation." He thinks this group of table tennis players is no exception. So, what's the story behind them?
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Housewife (Ryoko Hiromi) because of professional reasons, the family's thinking is more traditional, they think that the housewife in the past (drunk on playing table tennis) is too loose, the image is not dignified enough, there is no housewife appearance.
This makes the housewife always very entangled, she wants to stick to her own interests and hobbies, does not want to live like others, she needs to be understood and tolerated by her family.
2
The farm couple (Sakiko Tanaka as a farmer's wife; Kenichi Endo as a farmer) also have a heart knot, their beloved son was very fond of table tennis before he was born, although they usually play, but when it comes to the official time, the psychological passing leads to physical discomfort, and chooses to escape, dare not face the table tennis game.
3
High school student (Yudou Sano) is very pure, he just likes the sport and goes to play, just like in my high school days, I will not even let go of 10 minutes of my spare time, as soon as school is over, I will run to the ping-pong table to play. High school students are such a person, but he seems to be a little less confident, and he can't let go when playing with his teammates.
4
The male protagonist (Played by Eita Nagayama) turned out to be a former professional boxer, who divorced his wife three years ago because of frequent alcoholism, and his purpose of playing table tennis is also very simple, just to fight with his daughter who rarely sees.
However, later the male protagonist figured it out, and he found that he liked Tamako.
Ah the group of people in the flower ball room is not willing, ah, can not just concede defeat. So they walked together again, and they picked up the ping-pong racket again.
Through constant monster fighting upgrades, a hidden little Easter egg was unlocked by the way, and it turned out that the Chinese restaurant they often ate had a pair of "not strong enough" mixed doubles combinations (Yu Aoi as Yang; Hiroyuki Morizaki as Zhang) who were kicked out by the Chinese table tennis team, and they soaked together almost every day to train, eat, and agreed that everyone would go to next year's national competition to save face.
With a week to go before the official match, things have changed again.
When Tamako saw the male protagonist's ex-wife introduce him to work, she mistakenly thought that they were reunited, and at the same time, facing the scumbag's sugar-coated shells, Tamako began to shake her heart, should she let go and re-enter an ordinary life.
The adult world really has a lot of helplessness, and sometimes we see a lot of things, just see through and don't say broken. Life is still full of most misunderstandings, which need to be communicated and faced by people. The people who can bravely take this step are a minority.
Finally, on qualifying day the following year, high school students, with the mentality of wanting to play and win more than last year, he texted his teammates that he was going to play. The others responded and arrived at the scene.
Despite their efforts, they lost the game. However, they are no longer as cowardly as their former selves, only to escape, this time they sweat hard, won the trust of their teammates, the respect of their families, all in vain.
The camera returns to the male and female protagonists.
Tamako is sure that she has fallen in love with the male protagonist and is finally able to face the scumbag.
Subsequently, the male protagonist and Tamako clarify the misunderstanding, and the hearts of the two are closer. In this way, they came to the match point in the final match with the scumbag pair, and in the final match point of 9-10, they accidentally encountered a super world ball, and the male and female protagonists regretted losing the game.
This is almost the end of the story.
As mentioned at the beginning, this is a bowl of chicken soup that is also very delicious.
Before losing the game, Tamako and the male protagonist, including other supporting characters, when they played, the state of their eyes glowing and their bodies following the ball movement infected every viewer. I seemed to be growing up with the characters, immersed in the movie scenes, cheering on the side of the court. The second half was simply too hot!
The final game failure may be a small waywardness of the director's treatment of the routine ending, there is not so much for granted, as long as people try to reconcile in the past, try to "lose" life when they find some "small luck".
Or the future will be better.
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Author: Suger
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