Bouquet-like love, the end after blooming, only withering.
This film full of "Japanese sadness", if it is just to sell the love emotions intertwined with regret and sadness, it is difficult to get a high score of 8.7 on Douban.
meet
Just like wong Kar-wai's usual methods in films, the hero and heroine Mai and Xiao Juan intersect at some point in their lives. In order to set the stage for this moment, the missed performances and the last train that could not be caught were all "deliberately" clustered around the two to reach the point where they met.
Favorite writers, admiring bands, movies you love to watch, sneakers like the same, even bookshelves like replicas... When you meet the person in the crowd who is 100% in tune with you, it's hard not to be sure that the person in front of you is your best partner.
Life is full of many boring souls, and people are also happy to stage a modern version of "Ye Gong Hao Long" in the social field. If you are lucky enough to smell the "same kind" in this world, will you be like Xiao Juan, touching his "tentacles" and actively seeking a response?
In the era of reinforced concrete, we are all too good at closing ourselves together, curled up in the joy of self-love in the enclosure and unwilling to probe. It is difficult for us to express our preferences, for fear that no one will understand. We fell in love with each other's temptations, afraid of being wrong.
Stay together
Deciding to be together requires only a confession of affection, and staying together requires crossing the gap of real life.
Xiaojuan and Wheat, with a vision of the future, quickly formed a "home" belonging to the two. Facing a river with a depleted water level, the subway roaring over the iron bridge not far away. Gaze out into the distance together, or snuggle up to enjoy the afternoon sun.
The two drank coffee and spent 30 minutes a day holding hands and walking home. Wheat takes Xiaojuan to see the air receiver in her documentary, and Xiaojuan records the joyful images with a film camera on the seashore. They can look at the same comic book in tears, or they can laugh out loud while eating the same fried noodle bread.
Beauty flows quietly in the air, Wheat wants this life to exist forever, how determined he is, he wants xiaojuan to live this life forever. Unfortunately, the good old age is always full of excessive expectations and confidence in life, and the similar interests can not withstand the anxiety of chai rice oil and salt.
Differences
Perhaps sometimes, people overmagnify the attraction of interests, hobbies, tastes, and even values to each other. We can accept each other because we have the same "tentacles", but understand that no relationship in the world is permanently stable or deteriorating.
Under the pressure of livelihood, wheat can not rely solely on illustrations to make a living, can only go out to work as a "social animal". So, the wheat that had taken off the sneakers was replaced by black leather shoes, which also heralded the first turn of the two of them in the direction of the future.
Gradually, the "Legend of Zelda" that was only played once, the recommended books that did not have time to read, the comics that were no longer chased... The spiritual world of the two gradually drifted apart.
In the scene where the restaurant breaks up, Wheat turns the word "breakup" into "marriage". A relationship has been talked about for 5 years, if it is a real girl, no matter how boring and worldly this person in front of her becomes, I think it is very likely that she will agree to this expected "marriage proposal". At this moment, a young man and woman came in the restaurant, sitting in their place, talking about their hobbies, and their faces showed their excitement. At this point, Xiao Juan's emotions could no longer be hidden.
The ideal of love
In Wheat's view, no pair of lovers can maintain their initial enthusiasm and romance. All love will eventually be shattered by reality, and after reorganization, it will put on the cloak of affection to paralyze people from accepting all this.
If Xiaojuan's view of love is too pure and idealized, then she is more like a symbolic existence and symbol - eternal and immortal love. The complexity of love may lie in this, and we are not qualified to judge the good or bad of a relationship. Seemingly fruitless love affairs, separation is actually a result and choice. Just like the music science at the beginning of the film, listening to music is a person's business after all, and so is love.