Introduction: The complex emotions in real life cannot be described by words, and these emotions slowly grow and wind in the body of each ordinary youth, and finally collide with different sparks.
More and more young literary and artistic films are mostly characterized by grotesque and absurdity, the plot described is too elegant, the art form is not recognized by most people, to a certain extent full of drama, but life is not full of drama everywhere, and the content seen by moviegoers in these films is contrary to actual life, and it is difficult to resonate.
Therefore, whether art divorced from life can better reflect the present, warm people's hearts, and be more distant from real life, the above questions remind me of a sentence that Mr. Yu Qiuyu once said: The great mission of art is to warm people's hearts in the cold and chaotic world.
But this movie is different - "Your Birds Can Sing", "Birds" actually refers to the heroine Sakiko. The film's forms of expression are diverse and permeate the consistent creative style of French New Wave cinema.
From the theme to the plot, from the style to the expression method, it carries the imprint of this era, mostly combining people's inner reality with external reality, showing the gap and contradiction between people's heart and reality.
The director deliberately focuses the lens on depicting the situation, psychology, love and gender relations of modern urban people, which is different from traditional films in that it is full of subjectivity and lyricism, and the film emphasizes more on the breath of life, believing that life is a combination of scattered and non-continuous events, replacing dramatic plots with trivial life plots.
What people lament in the movie is not the gorgeous beauty of art, but the ordinary beauty of life. Each character in the film has its own distinct personality, and the director's treatment of trivial details of life allows most young people to resonate, rather than showing some exaggerated, dramatic content that runs counter to real life.
The film takes the change of time as a clue, so that the majority of young people can see the shadow of their own lives in the film, let people immerse themselves in the scene, which completes its mission. Adapted from Taishi Sato's novel of the same name, "Your Birds Will Sing" focuses the story of Tokyo that took place in the last century in Hokkaido today. It tells the story of "I", who works at a bookstore in the suburbs, Shizuo, who lives in the same room as "me", and "my" colleague Sachiko.
During the exchange, Sachiko and "I" gradually become ambiguous, and Shizuo also has a secret affection for Sachiko, three young people who are friends and lovers with each other, and a period of wanton youth with summer excitement. The three people over time in the process of life to produce complex and delicate love and friendship, this change of feelings led to the three people's deformed love affair. "Ambiguity" as the subtle but romantic tone of the entire film runs through the lives of these three people.
All three of them chose to hide their inner feelings in their hearts and did not show them, and the mist and interlacing of their feelings for each other were gradually surging and growing. The heroine Sachiko has been wandering and tangling in her heart, she has not got a complete answer to how to choose two boys, and the emotional choices presented in the movie are also things that happen in the youth of ordinary people.
At the same time, this film also reflects the more intense style of Japanese small fresh film, the director adopts the artistic technique of pursuing reality, and the tone of the film tends to be fresh and soft, simple and elegant, like a colorful picture. The story of the love-hate entanglement between three people in the movie takes place in Tokyo, Japan in the last century, so the set in this movie also combines the architectural characteristics and streets of Tokyo in the last century, making the film more realistic.
Judging from the way the summer is depicted in the film, the director does not use excessive exposure, nor does he deliberately create too low saturation, so that the plot picture of the whole film looks harmonious and full of artistic characteristics. And the film combines personalized colors with traditional aesthetic art to create a more unique and beautiful picture, rendering the entire story of the film with that hot and dry summer, setting a solid tone for the film.
For example, in the film, Sachiko and two boys carry a wine bottle together to watch the city streets in the early morning, the pale yellow sky is misty, the empty and lonely streets, and the bright lights on the streets, several simple scenes are matched, but they create a different atmosphere, fully explaining what is called "all scenery is love language".
At the same time, the state of mind of Sachiko and the two boys is also perfectly released in this scene and promotes the development of the entire storyline. The final ending of the movie is not as grand as the wind and waves, but plainly ends the summer that is hot and full of ambiguous atmosphere.
In the movie "Your Birds Will Sing", it is a complex emotion that really exists in real life and is difficult to describe in words, that is, love and friendship, and these emotions slowly grow and wind in the body of each ordinary youth, and finally collide with different sparks.
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