Siyi Valley
Friends who like Japanese dramas must have seen the Japanese drama pure love trilogy "The Whirlwind of Love", "The 101st Marriage Proposal" and "Tokyo Love Story", and the most well-known of them is the 1991 version of "Tokyo Love Story", not only because its song "Sudden Love" sounds good and is still like smoke, but more importantly, her core is to depict the realistic love story of the four-corner love of modern young men and women that took place in the metropolis of Tokyo, which resonated with many viewers.
And in 2022, more than 30 years later, Yuji Sakamoto, who is also one of the screenwriters of "Tokyo Love Story", launched a new pure love movie "Bouquet of Love" with director Yutai Doi, which seems to be the momentum of pure love movies, but it is thought that "Bouquet of Love" and "Tokyo Love Story" are under the common theme of love to explore the next stage of pure love values more deeply, restoring the most real and charming what is the freedom of love and warning introspective air.
"Bouquet of Love" is a love film written by Yuji Sakamoto and directed by Yudai Doi, co-starring Jun Arimura and Shoko Sugata, and released on February 22, 2022, the most "second" and most "loving" in the mainland, which is very romantic. Set in modern Tokyo, the film tells the story of the love affair between Yamanoe and Yatsani Silk, who missed the last train of the subway in Tokyo, and depicts the 5 years that the two spent. This story is actually a more in line with the screenwriter's style of small mourning, because this is a love tragedy, the beginning of the story is to show their confused posture in the period of neither adults nor children, but also to celebrate the beautiful and moving love time.
But as the plot progresses, the story ends with a well-intentioned breakup. But even in this tragic atmosphere, the screenwriter and director tell the Japanese pure love movie, after all, the end of the story throws out the subject of what is the other side of pure love, that is communication, that is consultation, that is tolerance, that is responsibility, that is the free air that restores the most real and charming what is love, this so-called free air is to find the most suitable other half, and if it is not suitable, it is necessary to break up. Or at this point you will feel that it is a heavy version of the pure love story. But the author believes that such a serious realism is a problem that allows those young loves to constantly reflect to make love stronger, or to restore the free air of love.
In terms of screenwriting characteristics, we know that the screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto uses character dialogue to promote the plot, naturally in this film he continues to use the soft lines he is good at touching the heart to bring everyone into the plot, such as the beginning of the story, when the male and female protagonists who are warming up in emotion want to wear headphones for the same song, the uncle next to him said "Don't separate the left and right channels for the two to share, so that the two people listen to completely different tunes" Perhaps this sentence is the fire dragon of this pure love movie. It is also a foreshadowing for the ending. Because it is also the central idea of all the expressions of the whole film, that is, in the world of love, it is good to have common hobbies, but love is not literature, music and other artistic play, and love is like headphones, the screenwriter and director are using "headphone theory" to metaphorically describe the relationship between the two, thus showing that pure love is not only about hobbies, but also about tolerance, consultation, responsibility and respect and freedom, and even introspection. In this way, we can better maintain love in ordinary life, or let their respective loves be restored to the air of freedom, so that everyone can break up kindly and be happy.
In terms of directing, Yutai Doi is the ace director of The Japanese TBS Television, and once won the 102nd Japanese Drama Academy Award for Best Director, representing "Quartet", "Manhattan Love Story", "Escape Is Shameful but Useful", it is precisely because he has rich experience in making love movies, and he will reflect the characteristics of the characters through small things, as well as various lights, slow motion, making the whole film more abundant, and also dispelling the idea that the plot of Yuji Sakamoto will not be good enough After all, the whole film is full of beautiful scenery of Japanese style. Because of the blessing of Yutai Doi now, it can be said that the new concept of love that pursues love with high freedom and a deep degree of rationality is filmed very much in line with the tastes of young people at present.
For example, in the movie, we not only know that the first generation of love is that everything is beautiful, such as they all like to read the same books, listen to the same music, go to see the same favorite mummy exhibition, the male and female protagonists blow their hair, raise a cat to enjoy the flowers together, see the sea, even the shoes are Converse,It can be seen that they have a good love foundation, so they quickly hitched a ride, rented a house with a large balcony, close to the sea, and need to walk thirty minutes to the station. Some of these are to see what is beautiful, but hindered by the bread problem, their problems have also appeared, but immature love of them, did not learn how to deal with the problem of emotional management emergencies, led to 5 years of emotional breakup, which is naturally regrettable, but from another point of view, but also reflected on the love of long-distance running to the main problems, and to know that the true color of love should also have a free air.
Although the male protagonist's line is "My goal in life is to maintain the status quo with you", which fully shows the side of the screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto's pure love line that hits people's hearts, but Sakamoto Yuji has a small background after all, so there is also "going out of society is like taking a bath, before going in, you will feel very troublesome, and after going in, you will feel so comfortable" It shows that the male and female protagonists' life experience is still shallow. And if there is anything related to the movie name "Bouquet of Love", it is the line said by the heroine: "If you tell your boyfriend the name of this flower, he will think of the girl every time he sees this flower in the future." And the result knows the end of the movie, the heroine did not say the name of this flower, in other words, she did not want him to remember her, so this is also buried in this is a tragic love of the thick foreshadowing.
Even if this is a pure love movie that continues the small mourning and tragedy of Yuji Sakamoto, the love experience is sincere and happy, which is one aspect of love, but there is another aspect of love, that is, it is also to let each other learn more about what love is, love not only needs common love and romantic air, but also more about tolerance, communication and consultation, responsibility and respect and freedom, and even the air of self-examination, which is where the educational significance of this film lies.
"The Whisperer in the Flower City", by Si Yi Gu, published by Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House in March 2020 Si Yi Gu: writer, freelance writer, currently living in Guangzhou.