It is difficult to get rid of the hustle and bustle of work and life, and it has been a long time since I have calmed down to watch a movie. In the evening, the street lights were on, the cold wind from the north blew the branches outside the window, accompanied by scattered raindrops wetting the yellow leaves on the ground, bored me, slightly impetuous heart, aimlessly flipping through the movie list of an App on my mobile phone, and soon a movie called "Ice Rut" came into view. (First of all, I declare that I do not have any good feelings for Japanese cultural and cultural works, let alone Japanese elements)
Speaking of the name "Ice Rut", I remember when I went to school, the middle school textbook included Bai Juyi's "Selling Charcoal" by Bai Juyi, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty in China, which contained a poem "Come to the city at night for a foot of snow, and drive a charcoal car to run the ice rut." Bai Juyi's poems have long been well-known, the poems describe the hard life of the low-level people, and the Japanese director's "Ice Rut", there is a similarity, I don't know if it is a coincidence. This, of course, is a digression.
The film is named "Ice Rut", there is a rut naturally there must be ice, the story takes place in the northernmost winter of Japan in Hokkaido, the whole process is filled with goose feather snow, cold wind, coupled with deliberate narrative techniques and camera display, with music, not only let people not have the heart to appreciate the local natural scenery, but full of depressing, solemn taste, which seems to be the usual way of Japanese films. (Similar to Daytime Fireworks)
The story is introduced by a murder case that takes place in the depths of the ice sea and snowfield, and the new policewoman Gate and the master Katatsuru take over the case and carry out the investigation. The door of losing his mother from childhood, with the delicate emotions unique to women, from the few clues, gradually peeled back the cocoon, and finally found the real murderer. According to common sense, the police solve the case, it is natural, the criminals are brought to justice, and it is very gratifying. However, the cleverness and tear point of the story lies in the fact that sympathizing with the weak, pitying the pained, the murderous sister and the sister who denounced the crime in the film, the tragic life, can't help but make people sigh and strangle.
Back in the 1960s, a stripper (stage name Catherine) gave birth to two daughters, knowing that working in the Wind Moon Place and impossible to give her children a better future, the mother endured the pain of selling her two daughters, "Sister Qian" and "Xiaobai", to traffickers from Sapporo. Takikawa, who was working as a conductor in the dance hall at the time, liked the sisters very much, took care of them all the time, and gradually developed feelings for Catherine for selling her sisters, feeling sympathy, and later went to Sapporo alone, became a taxi driver, never married in her life, and looked for the whereabouts of her sisters.
The traffickers bought the two sisters and did not live the happy life that their mother expected, and they were even more miserable than their mother when they were young. (Slightly explained in the film) The sister (later named Hyofumi Chieko) became a prostitute, and finally found her sister in her old age, and instead of recognizing her, she was hired by her sister's company as a cleaner and secretly guarded. The younger sister started as an ordinary worker and gradually worked hard, and was fortunate to become the president of a well-known local (Kushiro) aquatic company (Hokkaido is rich in fishery resources), and her daughter is about to marry and have children, and a happy old age is coming.
However, the misfortune of fate has once again crept in. It is said that the tree is a big trick, and the traffickers of that year learned that their sister "Xiao Lily" had a lot of money, and despite the old age of the ancient rarity, they actually threatened her sister's origin (Japanese women have low social status, exposing her family origin may make her discredited), and came to Kushiro to extort money. The younger sister finds the conductor of the year, Takikawa, who is also a rare year, and kills the trafficker. Perhaps her sister was too eager for her own good life, and even killed Takikawa, who knew the inside story. Unfortunately, the killing process happened to be bumped into by her sister, who worked as a cleaner in her own company. At this time, the sisters did not recognize each other, and in order to protect her sister Sayuri, her sister Chieko resolutely turned herself in to the police station and prepared to bear the charge of murder.
The careful policewoman gate, from her sister's confession and clues, vaguely felt that the case was not so simple. So she and her master Kataki traveled to many places, around the sisters' origins to investigate, and finally discovered the relationship between the traffickers, the conductor, Catherine and other characters, solved the mystery of the sister's murder, the sister's guilt, and the sisters were both imprisoned.
The film has no gorgeous shots, no grand scenes, no handsome actresses, and even the characters are very simple, but they tell a tragic story with a gripping, melancholy and low, and after watching it, people are sad from the heart, and love is born from the heart.
In particular, a poem that runs through the whole text, the ending is chanted again, accompanied by the scene of the sisters being chased separately by the traffickers when they were young, one in the car, one outside the car, and the scene of being separated again after being arrested, another in the car, one outside the car, instantly making people cry.
Finally, the poem ends:
Two people together are still alone
Being alone is still alone
The truth is that two people are bored and incomprehensible
The truth is that a person is lonely and unbearable