When I was born in a small county when I was a child, I and my friends around me all yearned for urban life, the lights and traffic in Hong Kong dramas were our beautiful fantasies of urban life, and those white-collar workers who were brightly dressed, professional and rational, and had a lot of income were our expectations for the future workplace. When I really grew up and came to the city to become a white-collar worker, I found that there is an insurmountable gap between life and TV dramas, and life is so glamorous and easy.
Even in the first-tier cities, there are many old, barren, black-lit abandoned buildings, which look no different from small counties, and those bustling lights actually exist only in a small part of the city center, where only a few elites can live. Not every white-collar worker can wear fashionable clothes and do high-end technical work, most of the time most people are actually doing some trivial and do not know what the meaning of the repetitive work, to receive a salary that is not more than no less than enough to survive in this city, all the time and energy have to be spent on work, there is no life and no hope.
As a result, these small-town youths who are desperate to devote themselves to the big cities begin to miss the life of running around the mountains and wild fields when they were young, carefree, and picking wild fruits to eat at will. Li Ziqi's short videos and works such as "Little Forest" about slow-paced rural life have also begun to catch fire among young people. Because this is the life we yearn for but can't give up everything in the city to try and live, so everyone can only look at other people's stories in their leisure time to meet their own yearning.
In "Little Forest", the heroine Ichiko has also worked and lived in Tokyo, but the fast-paced and high-pressure life in Tokyo makes her unable to adapt, and finally chooses to return to the village where she grew up. Komori is a small but very warm and friendly place between neighbors, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, the nearest supermarket is half an hour away, surrounded by green mountains and rivers, and there are many delicious ingredients in the mountains. Without the pressure of overtime, no anxiety about life and money, the need to work every day, although hard but full of heart, Komori people live a simple and happy life by their own hands.
The film is divided into two parts, namely summer and autumn and winter and spring, and from the name, you can guess that the film fully tells the four seasons of Komori. The main line is that Ichiko uses forests, ponds, and various seasonal ingredients that she grows or air-dried to make a dish that she remembers her mother making. These delicious dishes not only represent Ichiko's longing for her mother and the inheritance of cooking skills between mother and daughter, but also show us the beautiful scenery of the four seasons of Komori and the local customs and customs. In my opinion, the two films are actually an extended and integrated version of Li Ziqi, and Ichiko, like Li Ziqi, is good at cooking various cuisines from local materials and has a variety of unique skills in rural life. It's just that Li Ziqi shows more culture and ancient skills than "Little Forest", while "Little Forest" has more human contacts than Li Ziqi.
Overall, "Little Forest" is a movie that is very suitable for eating, and it can bring double happiness with food. The only regret is that the food inside contains too little meat.