Zhong Jiang Film Review
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In South Korea, sleeping on your back like a baby with your hands raised is called sleeping like a butterfly.
He looked at her with her eyes open and said in Korean, "Sleeping butterfly." ”
Ryoko, a 54-year-old well-known Japanese novelist, suddenly suffered from Alzheimer's disease. She decided to finish her last book while still being self-aware. In addition to writing, Ryoko also works as a lecturer at the university. One day, when she and her students went to an izakaya near the school for a drink, they happened to meet Chang Hai, a Korean student. Ryoko is curious about the nihilistic personality of the young Changhai and gradually becomes fascinated by him. Ryoko finds her hand unable to exert force, so she asks Changhai to be her writing assistant. Ryoko "tells" the story, and Changhai is in charge of typing. When they write novels together, reality and story gradually become one, and the two also break through the age line and fall into a love network. But Ryoko's condition deteriorated rapidly, and she began to feel anxious and afraid, so Ryoko decided to let Changhai go before her illness became more serious...
Sleeping Butterfly is a love drama film written and directed by Jeong Jae-eun and starring Miho Nakayama / Kim Jae-yu / Hidekazu Majima / Masanobu Katsumura / Toshi Sugata, inspired by the film Duras The Final Chapter of Love, which depicts the late love affair of French writer Margaret Duras. The film premiered at the Busan Film Festival on October 14, 2017, and premiered in Japan and South Korea on May 12, 2018 and September 6, 2018, respectively.
Youth without regrets, love first, seemingly not a good match, in fact, a very suitable pair of men and women, after meeting each other, attracted by each other, such as a babbling water-like plot, it seems that you can feel the summer of fire through the screen, and the colorful bookshelf, the paper and ink fragrance of books. By chance, each takes what they need for each other's salvation, but how can it be said that it is not love? Even writers and international students end up in their own worlds and stages. A very Japanese-Korean cooperation movie, very slow, very delicate, very idyllic, very sad... Slowly, there is no excessive ups and downs of the plot, and the unexpected is very attractive to me: accidental doom, like!
The film makes a deeper contrast and analysis of love. The director will be Ryoko wrote the content of the novel with the interpolation technique in the plot to show, the novel of the man and woman is also a pair of unscrupulous lovers, the male protagonist is a botanist with a family, the female protagonist for the male protagonist's career, painstakingly painting a variety of plants in the album. The male protagonist is more and more alienated from the female protagonist for the sake of the family, but he still regularly comes to take the painting to complete his work, and when the female protagonist is determined to put the paintings into the water, the male protagonist never appears again.
The male protagonist in the novel regards love as a selfish and unscrupulous demand, and the female protagonist is blindly giving. Although Ryoko still characterizes the novel as a novel that represents deep love, it is actually very different from her and Changhai's love: Changhai knows that Ryoko's time is short and will lose her memory and still chooses to stay together; Ryoko does not want to drag Changhai down and does not want him to see her twilight appearance, and Changhai misunderstands that she uses him, which eventually inspires Changhai's fighting spirit and finally achieves a career. Ryoko's love is to pay is to be fulfilled, and Changhai's love is sincere and eternal.
Beginning with "Sage Love", Miho Nakayama seems to be addicted to taboo subjects, including "Goodbye, One Day", "New Shoes", which made me praise a few years ago, and this Japanese-Korean co-production "Sleeping Butterfly", which inspired Duras's love affair in his later years, are among them. Think about it, who is more suitable than her? After middle age, there is always an inexplicable bitterness between the eyebrows, that kind of introspection and disdain for sweetness; the trance look of youth seems to be more distant, with the lone courage to abandon the present at any time; the body is as thin as ever, there is still a deer-like vigilance and sensitivity, but after all, the years have left traces on the face, and they are not going to hide... This complexity of coexistence of clarity and aging makes sense of what it attracts.
Entangled with time, some stirred into turbidity, some extracted crystalline, Nakayama Miho undoubtedly belongs to the latter, diluting the age of the actress to talk about tiger discoloration. However, love across generations is too challenging to ethics after all, and the film is clever (but also avoids the importance of light) to focus on a literary creation process, with the Japanese small fresh and beautiful lens to soothe the eyes. Those discussions about words, identity settings, plot development, how to use words, etc., along with the increasing fullness of the characters in the novel, the pair of men and women are also logically imprinted.
The last novel that Changhai had helped Ryoko complete was called "Eternal Memory", but he had never personally opened the published novel. Two years later, when he returned to Japan, already a writer of Song Chengnai, he discovered that the "Eternal Memory" was different from the corrected version: the book retained many of the textual and grammatical flaws that appeared when he entered it at that time, leaving behind an "eternal memory" of Changhai! The house where he and Ryoko once lived had become an "accidental library", with books arranged in color, like the rainbow he had laid out for her that year.
Some people say that the reunion of Seino and Ryoko at the end seems to be the best ending, but it seems not to be. But I think this ending is exactly the most special part of the film. Taking off her gold-rimmed glasses, Cheng Nai crouched in front of Ryoko's wheelchair and said softly, "I am Song Changhai", and Ryoko, who had lost her language ability, slowly held out her hand. It was as if the long-awaited lover had finally returned.
Changhai was surprised to think that Ryoko actually remembered him. However, if the ending is the core of this "memory will disappear love but not", it is nothing more than a moving but ideal (cheesy) love story. So although Ryoko finally wrote "Eternal Memory", there is no so-called "even if I lose my memory, I will remember you". Some are just a woman who slowly loses all her memories, using a recording to repeatedly remind herself of the man who loves "Changhai".
In various accidental combinations, we gather and disperse, intersect and shine with each other, and accidentally leave a mark, a symbol that only he can decipher in the world, such as a deliberately wrong word in a book, such as an old residence changed to "accidental library".
Then, whatever you want, you remember it, it's best if you forget...
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