Imagine that one day you meet a person who has a high degree of interests and hobbies that are in line with you, has strange ideas that coincide with yours, wears the same shoes, chases the same novel, reads a serial book of the same author... It's hard not to be thrilled that such a person appears in front of you, right? Would you really fall in love?
In the Japanese movie "Bouquet of Love", it tells such a story: the hero and heroine met by chance because they missed the last train at Tokyo's Mingdaimae Station, and then began a 5-year love affair in which the era, time, place, and all accidents were synchronized like fate, showing their confused appearance in a period when they were neither adults nor children.
The film is the first big-screen collaboration between Yuyasu Doi and screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto, the director of "Quartet". How sweet and beautiful this movie is at the beginning, how cruel it is later, the staying power of the movie is too great, and I can't stop crying when I watch it... Today, I'm going to give you a good talk about it.
"Bouquet of Love" is the box office champion of a Japanese live-action film released in the first half of 2021.
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The story is set in 2015, and the heroine Yatsuya (played by Jun Arimura) is a 21-year-old junior college student.
Ordinary little silk does not have a wide circle of friends, a quiet personality, is not good at rejecting people, has no grand life goals, and has a crush on niche interests.
Silk will often encounter bad luck, but she will always comfort herself that "the Brazilian fans in the 2014 World Cup were even worse".
One day, Xiao Silk misses the last train home and meets a boy of the same age, Yama Nomi (played by Shoki Sugata). They meet up and go to an izakaya, where they stumble upon more and more commonalities in each other.
For example, I like the same author, I like to chase the same serial comics, watch the same movie, wear the same small white shoes, the headphone cable will always be knotted, I like to bookmark with the movie ticket stub, and even buy tickets for the same exhibition, but I accidentally failed to do it.
Such another person, who has a high degree of affinity with you, gets each other's pleasures, even the eccentric and strange ideas are exactly the same. This is exactly another version of me in the world.
After a long conversation, they were still unsatisfied, so Wheat invited Xiao Juan to his home, and Xiao Silk looked at the rows of books in Wheat's home and couldn't help but sigh: "This is simply a copy of my bookshelf." ”
On rainy nights, they discussed the arts they shared, such as movies and literature.
She heard the sound of DNA moving, and she felt something was about to start.
The two people who met by chance were so compatible in terms of interests that they forgot what was not interested and dug into the same things as themselves in each other.
The two people with exactly the same pace soon developed a good feeling for each other, and finally they naturally interacted.
After a few months of dating, the two began to live together, sharing every bit of beautiful things around them: discovering the favorite bakery near the residence, naming the cat they picked up together, closing the department store in Shibuya together, lying in bed together chasing the same drama, crying together, laughing together...
Up to this point, the stories are extremely romantic, there is no fancy and dramatic love process, that is, the two people who are very "chatty" develop into lovers and achieve fairytale love stories.
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How beautiful the front is, how bad the back will be, because real life is never a fairy tale.
Like the young people in reality, they have encountered a very important node in life - graduation and job search.
Male and female protagonists graduate and enter the society, find a job and are frustrated, so they have to give up their dreams first and do what they don't like but have to do.
The female protagonist who still insists on her hobby after work, and the male protagonist who has more than enough and is insufficient after putting into work, gradually loses the tacit understanding when they first met.
Boys have to grow up, they have to be eager to prove themselves, they have to plan to spend their lives with their beloved girls ambitiously. There is a past and a future in this grand blueprint, but there is no present. He ran forward desperately, and the girl gradually drifted away.
Their ideas began to fork, the male protagonist felt that it was natural to give up the past way of life, people had to learn to grow up, and he thought that the female protagonist was still in the state of the college period.
And the female protagonist feels that two people together should not be like this, a pool of stagnant water, life in addition to work nothing else, she still loves art, hope to see more literature, movies and exhibitions with the male protagonist.
When you are still happy that the author you like has a new serial, the first time you run to the other party to share, and the other party is holding a book of workplace success learning... Saying that they would go to the movies together but completely unable to find time, the books they bought back piled up and did not watch, open their mouths and shut their mouths are all money, and they have lost their enthusiasm for art appreciation and the ability to empathize.
Once they used to read comics in bed together, but now they wore headphones, they used to have nothing to say, and now they don't communicate with each other, and gradually, they have no understanding and love, more than a second is suffocating, and the loneliness of two people is even more uncomfortable.
The so-called "growth"
Growing up is a matter of realizing that you are not omnipotent. Wheat grew up, a little bit to learn and accept the rules of the outside world, learned to make a "cloth" in the stone scissors cloth; but Xiao Silk is a girl who will always chase "The Land of Gems", a girl who would rather be separated than lower the standard again and again, a girl who retains the original innocence and persistence in love.
Therefore, in the face of Mai's sincere and earnest marriage proposal, even if he cries, he will refuse. Silk accepts growth, but would rather lose the game than stick to her original principles.
It is said that marriage is the graveyard of love, and probably most people will choose to bury love like the male protagonist and be willing to endure the trivialities of marriage. But you can also be like the heroine, since the love is dead, then it is better to change one, because I don't want to lower the standard.
It's not either side's fault, there are too many impermanences in life that can't be reached. The end of love is inevitable, the end of the end is accidental.
Although their love did not come to an end, the two said goodbye with dignity, and after six years, the two met again, and after the elevator was one after another, the new lover was already holding around them, and the two turned and walked into the sea of people, tacitly not seeing each other.
The story will turn and life will go on.
Silk's favorite love blogger said that "the beginning is the beginning of the end, and encounters are always accompanied by parting". The last scene of the film is when Wheat accidentally sees on a panoramic map that he once held hands with a small silk -- Mai carrying a bread bag in his hand, silk holding flowers, two people eating fried noodle bread, holding hands and walking by the river, walking to the small nest where they live together.
The bouquet of flowers held in the silk hand is forever fixed in this photo, and it also points to the title of the film "Bouquet of Love".
Just as all flowers have a limited flowering period, blooming means withering away. From strangers to friends, to lovers, to familiar strangers, the film tells all people who have loved and been loved through bouquet-like love that even if the bouquet of love will wither, it still blooms vigorously and incomparably.
If the flower is destined to wither, thank you for the beautiful bloom.