The story takes place in Hokkaido. Hokkaido always gives people the impression of a kind of loneliness "at the end of the world", but it is different from Kamchatka, Greenland, which is a forest and sea snowfield, and the loneliness of thousands of people disappearing. Hokkaido is a paradise in the middle and high latitudes, with lovely summers: many film and television dramas are filmed here, showing the scene of the lively season, which seems perfect, but it is not the same; Hokkaido also has a cold and harsh winter. In this bad weather, if people can stay in the wooden house, drink a cup of hot coffee or tea, listen to the whistling north wind outside the window, and have loved and trusted people around them, this feeling is incomparably warm and wonderful, happier than when the wind is beautiful. At the beginning of the film, the stormy night and the visit of strange men bring a little uneasiness to the calm and lonely pasture of the past. People seek security all their lives. What I appreciate most about this film is that its artistic beauty is reflected in the hidden uneasiness and finally still gives people a sense of security.
Minko, a young and beautiful young woman, had gone to Hokkaido with her husband two years earlier to explore the countryside away from the bustling city, but soon her husband left her due to an accident, leaving her son Takeshi to feed cows with her. On a rainy winter night, Tajima, who had asked for shelter from the rain, broke into their otherwise cold and lonely lives. Tajima farming is industrious and kind, but his father commits suicide because he is forced by life, and his wife seeks short-sightedness because he cannot repay the loan shark, and in the face of the fierce provocation of the creditor, the farmer kills the creditor in anger and goes into exile.
Since working as a short-term worker at Minzi's ranch, Tajima Has silently undertaken heavy labor, not only becoming inseparable friends with Takeshi, but also becoming the protector of this weak family, and in the long life of common life, Farming and their mother and son have established sincere feelings. Just as Minzi began to accept farming from the heart, farming was recognized by the police at the horse race, and the next day he was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison. Looking at the train that is about to disappear into the vast snow field, the people can only call for the early return of farming in the depths of love.
The film doesn't have much drama except for the moving opening. The whole film tells the story in the narrative style of prose culture. The plot is fragmented, but detailed. The lines are short, but they are lifelike.
The vast desert meadows, widows and young children, the intrusion of a strange man. Tough life, simple mind:
"Give a place to live, give something to eat, give a job, don't give money." Tajima farming feels something is wrong. As the neighbor's aunt said: doing so much work is so little. So the drawers in the house should be locked and the knives hidden. Minzi also frowned and didn't know what brain this silent man was doing. But the farming came, and the family's farm work slowly became organized, and some people bullied him and he came out with a bucket of water, because his legs were much longer than the one who bullied her. The child also got along well with him: my uncle praised my name for being good.
I admire a man like Tajima Kosai, because he doesn't talk much and basically works. To be honest, I don't like the so-called likable and humorous men in many movies, that is, very cheerful and sunny men. And the minzi played by Chieko is the woman I admire the most. Although Minzi is already a little old in the film, and the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes are even clearly visible, as a woman who works all day, this is more believable.
There are very few exclamation points throughout the movie, more ellipses. So people who are used to watching American blockbusters will take a nap when they watch this film. Because its lines are too obscure, the cotton hides needles, and people without life experience cannot hear it.
What is the love of orientals? Warm and restrained, love you and do not say clearly. The introverted love of the Orientals can be perfectly displayed in the spring, summer, autumn and winter of beautiful Hokkaido, in the accidental intersection of a widow and a murderer.
When Tajima farmed all over the world as his home, he was lonely and disillusioned. The whole world is home because the family is broken and dead, there is no home, and the loneliness and disillusionment are because the heart is uncertain and does not know where to go. Those who flee are hopeless and can die everywhere. However, when I came to the land of Mangyuan with the heart of Mangyuan, I suddenly had a tie, so I had responsibility, so I had belonging, and I harvested simple love. It is also accidental and inevitable, when people are in a state of existence to a desperate situation, they can best experience the emotions of washing away the lead, and experience the true taste in the dullness. It just so happens that two people who are struggling are.
The people and the cultivators have had a tacit understanding for a long time, that is, no one dares to break through this layer of window paper.
In the night of the barn, the wind and rain are fierce, the veterinarian opens the knife, and the people: "Nicole can't die, she is the most milky!" Suddenly hugging The Cultivator, "You can't go, don't go anywhere, I'm afraid!" ”
It's too simple. It's as simple as a movie.
At the end, Minzi finally catches the train escorting the farming, and in the face of the police, Minzi does not know how to find an opportunity to talk to the farming.
At this time, Fengtian, their friend, sat across from Minzi and asked Minzi loudly, "I heard that you don't live in the original grassland, but have moved to the town?" Minzi suddenly opened up and said loudly, "Hmm. ”
"I heard that you and your children are waiting for your husband to come back for several years." "Hmm..."
It was the climactic part of the play, and my tears would flow uncontrollably. How can these bland words have such a strong force? This power has actually been hidden for a long time, if it were not for the extremely real plot, the extremely simple character and relationship were fully expressed in the beginning and development, and if it was subtle and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, how could the laughter between Tsubata and Minzi make us cry?
The love is so deep that there are no words. Nowadays, "you don't have to say, I naturally understand you, I don't have to say, you must understand", this kind of Oriental implicit, introverted and tacit understanding has become extremely rare. If you are lucky, even if you give up your face to chase, even if you have to wait, don't let go.