Today we talk about the Japanese movie "Driving My Car".
One Name Drive My Car / Drive My Car (2021), 别Name Naming (stand).
Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi has won important awards in the international film world with "Night and Day", "Chance and Imagination" and "Driving My Car", and Hamaguchi Ryusuke has also become a hot director.
His two works this year, "Chance and Imagination" and "Driving My Car", have been well received at major film festivals, "Driving My Car" won the Palme d'Or nomination at the 74th Cannes Film Festival, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi also won the Best Screenplay in the main competition unit, the Fabisi Award for the competition unit, the Catholic Humanitarian Spirit Award and other awards.
"Driving My Car" is also one of former President Barack Obama's 14 favorite movies of 2021.
Japan has also officially declared this film for the "Best International Feature Film" award at the 94th Ao Mou Card Awards in 2022.
"Driving My Car" is based on the short story of the same name from Haruki Murakami's 2014 short story collection Men Without Women.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi also said he drew inspiration from eight other stories in the short story collection Scheherazade and Kino.
When "Driving My Car" was first filmed, the story was set in Busan, South Korea, and later moved to Hiroshima, Japan due to the impact of the epidemic.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi said that there are two reasons for choosing to adapt Haruki Murakami's novel as a script: one is that the characters are basically in the car, and the other is that the story explores performance problems.
Jiafu is a well-known middle-aged drama actor, and his wife Yin is a screenwriter who often pops up some fantastic ideas. Their daughter died at the age of four, and the couple lived in mourning for more than a decade, seemingly loving.
Jiafu once went home to meet his wife at home and the small fresh meat actor Takatsuki secretly had an affair, Jiafu did not poke on the spot, but silently left, continuing to cooperate with his wife to play the role of a loving couple.
Yin suddenly died of cerebral hemorrhage, and Jiafu lived alone in the world.
After living alone for two years, one day Jiafu was invited to be the director of the drama "Uncle Vanya", and in order to keep the artist safe, the filmmakers equipped him with a full-time driver Tori. Duli drives Jiafu's car and carries Jiafu to and from work every day. In the process of directing the drama, Jiafu met Takatsuki again. And Takatsuki also seems to have a lot to say to Jiafu.
Between getting along with these people around him day and night, Jiafu also gradually learned some things about others, gradually opened his heart, and untangled the knots in his heart.
Haruki Murakami's novel "Driving My Car" is a short story with no more than 40 pages in full.
In the novel, the story begins with the actor hiring a driver, and the reader learns about the past of the sound through their conversation. In the film, this order is reversed, and the audience can first understand the story of Yin's life, and then listen to the family blessing reminiscences.
In Haruki Murakami's novel, the main story line is the death of Oto, and after being adapted into a movie, Ryusuke Hamaguchi changed the main story line to a rehearsal drama "Uncle Vanya".
"Uncle Vanya" is also about the protagonist being deceived and reconciled with himself, and "Driving My Car" is also about this theme. Therefore, this change is not separated from the original work, but more in line with the center of the film's story.
Jiafu's wife is called "Oto", which literally means "sound".
The name is a pun, and after the death of the sound, her voice still echoes in the life of the family. The tone goes through the tape, over and over again, to the line with Jiafu.
There is a transitional scene in the film where the wheels of a car and a rotating tape merge into one. This state of constant rotation and progress and stillness in place coincides with Jiafu's life and emotional state.
The tape keeps turning, seemingly moving forward, but actually staying in place, which is like the theme of the film, limiting itself and making it impossible to really move forward.
The film uses up to three hours to tell the story, the most important thing for the parties to pay attention to is to reconcile with themselves, rather than to close themselves off, resulting in more misses.
As the film says, even the people closest to us can't really understand. But it's also not particularly important, because the more we learn, the more we get hurt.
As our ancestors said, many times it is "rare to be confused", and there is no need to be so real in life. Too much truth can only put themselves into the quagmire, so it is not worth the loss to be self-contained. On issues that are not critical, you can turn a blind eye and make yourself feel better.
After the family was middle-aged and widowed, they finally understood this truth under the guidance of everyone.
Jiafu and Tori are alone for a long time, and their understanding of each other increases in their conversation, and a kind of emotional bond between father and daughter is faintly generated. Tori has made a great contribution in helping Jiafu out of emotional difficulties.
The key pusher is Takatsuki. In addition to Wataru being alone for a long time, the rare conversations with Takatsuki have provided key clues.
Jiafu initially despised Takatsuki and harbored a vague hostility. Takatsuki told Jiafu the second half of the story, and completed the heart of Jiafu was a key piece. Jiafu found himself shocked by Takatsuki's narration, and also understood that it was impossible to understand the people closest to him, and if he wanted to understand others, he must start by understanding himself.
Let go of your own rare confusion,
Really move forward and live again.
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