Today, let's talk about the movie "The Spy's Wife".
Wife of a Spy /Wife of a Spy (2020).
This "Spy's Wife" was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the 77th Venice Film Festival, and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the Silver Lion Award for Best Director.
The film was also awarded the first place in the "Best Film" and "Top Ten Japanese Films of the Year" by the authoritative Japanese film magazine "Film Shunbao".
Starring Yu Aoi and partnering with Ishito Takahashi and Masadae Higashi, "The Spy's Wife" tells the story of a couple dedicated to exposing crimes against humanity committed by the Japanese Kwantung Army on the eve of the Pacific War during World War II.
The film does not show the story from the perspective of a general spy war movie, or a male war, but looks at the war through the perspective of the heroine. This is a relatively new point of the film, and the success or failure lies in the performance effect of the female perspective.
The heroine, Riko Fukuhara, is a housewife whose daily life is to take care of her living and take care of her family.
Her husband, Yusaku, runs a trading company and runs a film and television company, using Ritsuko Fukuhara for the heroine of the film.
Riko Fukuhara also has a small hair named Taiji Tsumori, who is now the captain of the Japanese gendarmerie, who is responsible for correcting violations and has a lot of power.
Several of the stories that take place in the film are familiar to us.
Yusaku's trip to Manchuria refers to the Japanese government's "Million Manchuria" mass migration program, which sent hundreds of thousands of peasants to the countryside of Manchuria for settlement and colonization.
The black-and-white video footage is of the infamous Unit 731. The devils are all made into movies to admit the crime, but the two devils in China are busy washing the floor, which is really sad.
Later in the film, in the late world of World War II, the United States imposed an oil embargo on Japan, and Japan ventured to raid Pearl Harbor and launch the Pacific War in an attempt to open up oil channels.
Several Japanese cities mentioned in the film were burned down, that is, the Bombing of Japan by the United States.
During World War II, the war was extremely fierce, and Riko Fukuhara's life was not affected much, and she never worried about her livelihood. It can be seen that the social status of their family is relatively good, and they still have the energy to do things other than survival.
Yusaku said that he was going to Manchuria with his nephew to collect wind, but brought back a strange woman. The strange woman was killed, and Taiji Tsumori began to investigate the murder, while informing Riko Fukuhara of the situation.
For a moment, Riko Fukuhara became suspicious of her husband, and she didn't know what he had done.
The first half of the film plants the seeds of jealousy, allowing suspicion to slowly take root between husband and wife, and has been hinting that they have mysterious little secrets.
These little secrets form a small suspense, the word "spy" seems to become very magical, a group of people who have no worries about food and clothing put excess energy and financial resources into the operation of spying.
If the film has made more efforts in espionage warfare, and let people with different political ideas fight over mysterious materials, then the film may become a tense and compact spy film.
"The Spy's Wife" did not follow this routine, but turned the style of painting, pushing Riko Fukuhara, who was involved in the center of the spy war, to the forefront, fully showing what she saw, heard and thought in this fight.
The performance of the second half of the film is very delicate, more like women telling their encounters in the torrent of history.
A woman and a wife are very weak in front of the country, the nation, and the family.
Although their slender bodies could not guide the course of the war, let alone reverse the situation, they still had to perform admirable feats in this torrent.
The fly in the ointment is that Riko Fukuhara's attitude changes too quickly, so fast that the two paragraphs before and after the film are like two stories, and the actors are like two people.
Riko Fukuhara said at first that she trusts her husband unconditionally, and it doesn't matter if her husband is a spy or not, if her husband is a spy, then she is the "wife of a spy."
It is based on this point of view that Riko Fukuhara unconditionally supports all her husband's actions, and even though she initially opposed her husband's actions, she still firmly chose to stand with him.
Riko Fukuhara and Yusaku have a good relationship, and the film has been laying the groundwork for their feelings.
If you enlarge the perspective, under the premise of the country, the nation, and the great love of mankind, the feelings of the couple are worth scrutinizing.
The film does not show the attitude of the two in love, Yusaku says that he is a human love, and Riko Fukuhara does not understand but still expresses support for her husband. This buys hidden dangers for subsequent disagreements.
Therefore, if we want to carry out revolution, we must be like-minded and we must be firm in our ideals and convictions. If each other are like-minded comrades, then they must make friends with each other, do not hide from their own people, and if they leave half of their speech and let the other party misunderstand or even be jealous, then it is likely to be good and do bad things.
In "The Spy's Wife," the couple makes this mistake more than once.
In order to protect her husband, the wife uses others to make a bitter meat meter, and the husband also comes to a bitter meat meter in order to protect his wife.
A small story that could have been a strong taste of espionage, but it was not ventilated in advance, and it was completely dependent on the other party's on-the-spot response, and they were gambling on the other side. This makes the film unable to withstand scrutiny, even if the couple succeeds, it is because of the small love for each other plus good luck, and has nothing to do with big love.
A spy who devotes himself to great love,
Focus on the wife of little love.
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