In today's society, materialistic desires are rampant, and everyone is pursuing a more material life
Some girls even trade their youth for it
But how many untold stories will happen between a young girl and an old man?
Today I brought a movie like this —
"Like a River of Love"
The film mainly revolves around the story of a young girl who is a friend and a retired old professor.
In the bustling cosmopolitan city of Tokyo, in the ambiguous bars, the young girl Xiaoqiu is distraught.
In order to earn tuition, she became a young girl who sold her flesh.
On the one hand, the boss asked her that she had to go to receive a special guest tonight, which could not be resisted.
At the same time, the boyfriend is becoming more and more suspicious of himself, and constantly calls to argue.
And the elderly grandmother who loved her most in the countryside came to Tokyo to see herself, waited at the station all day, and now that the night is dark, she has not been able to see her.
Eventually, exhausted and dissatisfied, Akiko finally arrives at the home of her friend, an elderly man.
From the moment she stepped into the old man's home, she found many women who were very similar to herself— the ancient oil paintings hanging on the wall, the old man's daughter Mika, and the old man's deceased wife Yoko.
The old man's name was Takashi Watanabe, and he was a retired university professor.
After the death of his wife, time has passed, and it is inevitable that he will be lonely.
So he invited Xiao Qiu, who looked similar to his wife, to his home.
As a result, the two talked in the room, and the conversation was very speculative.
In order to entertain Xiao Qiu, Takashi brought out fine wine and delicacies.
But perhaps because of exhaustion, Xiao Qiu came to Long Shi's bedroom and fell asleep.
Long Shi didn't seem to be coming for Xiao Qiu's body either, and he thoughtfully turned off the bedroom light.
The next day, Takashi drives Xiaoqiu to school and happens to bump into Xiaoqiu's boyfriend, Jiang Jin Xianming.
After Xian Ming saw the old man, he curiously talked to him.
During the chat, he mistakenly thought that the old man was Xiao Qiu's grandfather.
And Long Shi did not deny it, but went wrong.
And in the subsequent dialogue, he also made a lot of suggestions for the relationship between the two as a "grandfather".
In this way, the story is led to a huge unknown in the misplaced relationship between the three people.
And the dislocation is the theme of this film.
The heroine of the film, Xiao Qiu, as a member of the Japanese aid girls, faces the dislocation of multiple identities.
She is a student of the university's sociology department and the girlfriend of her boyfriend, Kenmyo Ezu.
She is also a well-behaved granddaughter in the eyes of her grandmother.
At the same time, she is also a girl in the eyes of Long Shi.
Behind these many identities, she inevitably fell into a dilemma.
Her identity as a young girl is in danger of being punctured at any time in the film.
And Xiao Qiu's boyfriend is completely unable to accept Xiao Qiu's identity as a girl.
He was furious when his friends teased xiaoqiu with pictures.
And Long Shi's identity is also facing dislocation in his contact with Xiao Qiu.
He is a retired university professor, writer, and translator.
A lonely old man who misses his deceased wife eventually becomes Xiao Qiu's "grandfather".
The film uses slow, long shots through Tokyo, which range from the bustling lights to the clean and orderly streets.
Noisy bars, wandering girls.
A mansion full of books, an old man who has lived alone for many years.
Greasy repair shop, grumpy man.
The end of this film may be one of the most shocking endings that Xiaoying has seen in recent years.
Xiao Qiu's boyfriend saw through the scam and learned Longshi's true identity.
Furious, he came to the old man's house and shouted for the old man to open the door.
Eventually, he smashed the old man's window glass with a stone, and the old man fell to the ground in response.
After that, the film came to an abrupt end.
This fierce leopard tail hammer has a deeper meaning in it:
For the people in the play, this is the outbreak of contradictions, the rupture of emotions. This brick ends the two true feelings, but also breaks the hazy and beautiful emotional world established by the dislocation.
As one film critic put it, "What happened after that we never know, and what the old man wants remains a mystery."
In the movie, the old man's love for Xiao Qiu is more out of nostalgia for his deceased wife.
The boyfriend's love for Xiao Qiu is full of suspicion and possession.
And Xiao Qiu's love for her boyfriend has changed from the joy at the beginning to a burden and confusion.
So she chose to flee to the old man's side, but it didn't seem to be love, but more like attachment to the old man of her grandfather's age.
In a word, the love that appears in this film is not love, but something infinitely close to love.
In director Abbas's view, love in reality is an ambiguous existence.
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