"We must continue to live, we will be fine"
- "Driving My Car"
Speaking of Haruki Murakami, in addition to his literary works, what is more talked about is that he "accompanied" the Nobel Prize in Literature, which is a popular candidate for winning the prize every year, but has been running with him for 15 years, which is already a stem.
But not long ago, the film adaptation of haruki Murakami's short story collection "Men Without Women" in the work of the same name "Driving My Car" swept eight awards at the 45th Japan Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenwriter, and Best Actor; at the same time, the film also won the 94th Academy Award for Best International Film.
Countless netizens are sighing: Haruki Murakami has finally won the award in another way!
At the same time, this is also the second time that a Japanese film has won the award for best foreign language film in 13 years since "The Mortician" won the 81st Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008.
The film lasts nearly 3 hours, and the triple interweaving of film and television, literature and drama, Hinata Jun, who watches the whole film, has to admit that the film has a lot of staying power.
You can always believe Haruki Murakami's writings and director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, so I'll share it with you today.
(There are spoilers in the following content, friends who want to see but have not yet had time to watch or have not finished watching can code first, do not mind spoilers or friends who have already watched, let's continue)
Those obsessions that were once pressed in the heart must eventually be released
At the beginning of the film, against a deep blue background, a woman is telling a story. Her name is Yin, she is the wife of stage actor Jiafu, and she is also a stage screenwriter.
Yin has a creative secret, she will tell a story after each love affair, but the next day will forget, when the film's protagonist Jiafu will translate those stories into words.
Jiafu's stage works are also relatively special, although the stage is a world-famous drama, but the theater actors come from all over the world and speak different languages.
The two people are a loving couple in the eyes of others, but in fact, there has always been a mustard in the heart of the couple - the daughter who died of illness at a young age. This is an unavoidable reality.
On this day, Jiafu was going to Vladivostok to participate in the drama festival, but the original flight was cancelled due to weather reasons, so Jiafu, who returned home early, inadvertently broke his wife's cheating.
Jiafu did not come forward, but chose to silently quit, choose a hotel to stay, and pretend to be on a video with his wife in the evening.
Originally, I thought that the peaceful life would continue in the shadows, but one day, Yin told Jiafu that she wanted to talk to him at night, and her voice was soft and firm.
Is it a sound derailment? Or something else? Jiafu was afraid, he was afraid of losing his original life, losing his wife, he did not dare to go home, so that day he drove outside aimlessly.
However, when he returned home at night, he saw the sound of falling to the ground, and it was too late to call an ambulance, and the sound died of cerebral hemorrhage, and Jiafu once again tasted the pain of the death of his relatives.
In addition to the pain, there is also a mystery between two people: are they really in love? Why did she cheat?
When everything is pressed into the heart, it becomes an obsession.
Two years later, Jiafu was invited to direct the performance of the "Uncle Vanya" drama, and the head of the film said to Jiafu after negotiation that a driver had been prepared for him.
Because Jiafu has the habit of practicing his lines while driving, and it is the audio recorded in advance with him that is the sound of the line, the old red Saab is for him the private space with his wife's voice, the storage place for all emotions, and for the intrusion of a stranger, Jiafu subconsciously refuses.
However, this is a rule, and Jiafu can only accept it.
In this way, after the test drive, Dori became the exclusive driver of Jiafu during the drama festival.
Two people, one immersed in the mystery of his dead wife, the other taciturn, completely unintended to communicate with each other.
Until one day, with "Sonia" as the entry point, Jiafu said, following his wife's voice to the line, often making him forget that he was in the car.
Tori's driving skills are very good, so Jiafu asked where she learned to drive.
She said that driving was taught by her mother when she was in junior high school, and her mother needed to take a train to work at a nightclub, so Tori needed to pick up her mother at the station since she was a child. Her mother needed to sleep in the car, and if she was woken up by the car, she would kick Dori in the back and beat her when she got out of the car, so Dori learned how to drive on rough roads.
Two people with stories, talking carefully and reservedly in the car.
Rehearsals continue, but Takatsuki, the actor who plays Vanya, is taken away by police for beating the candid photographer to death. At this time, "Uncle Vanya" faces two endings: Playing Vanya by Jia Fulai, or canceling the play.
Iefuku needs time to think about it, and during this time, he and Watanabe go to Kami-Tetsuki- Tsuki, Waori's hometown.
During the journey, two already familiar souls continue to tell their untold secrets.
Jiafu could have gone home early, but he was afraid of losing his wife and losing his seemingly peaceful life, so he really lost his wife, Jiafu blamed himself, what if he came home early? Think of it this way every day.
Dori said that she killed her mother, after the house collapsed, she could have called for help, but she did not, the scars on her face were also left at that time, some people said that surgery could remove the scars, but Dori chose to stay.
"You killed your mother, I killed my wife", the two people wanted to avoid the heart, poured out through the night, and the two souls found each other's tree hole at this time.
In the face of the collapsed house, the emotions of the two people finally collapsed.
Dori said that there was another person in her mother's body, called "Lucky", whose childlike consciousness was incompatible with the adult body, and her mother was also her only childhood friend.
But when the disaster came, she still chose to ignore it, probably because this was the opportunity for her mother to escape in reality, and the scar on her face should be to remember "lucky".
"If I could, I wanted to scold her and apologize for not listening to her, I wanted her to live, I wanted to see her, I just wanted to talk to her more", cheating is true, love is real, but there is no going back.
The middle-aged man who had been suppressed for too long finally choked up to face his true self.
"We must continue to live", the survivors who have been thinking about death, no matter what, we must continue to live, everything will be fine.
Facing the sun, the two souls snuggled together.
In Sonia's sign language, "We have a long, long string of monotonous days and nights in the coming days; we have to endure the tests that are coming patiently", he really feels the emotions of words, and in the play, he lets go of his obsession.
At the end of the film, Dori drives a red Saab on the road, she takes off her mask, the scars on her face are gone, and she seems to have really put it down.
Pictures and words, in fact, can already spy one or two
In fact, the film can also spy on one or two from the language of design.
A large area of cool color background would have given people a sense of freshness, but thinking of the tone of the movie, it becomes lonely, and even cold makes people feel depressed.
At this time, the red Saab of the family fortune is very conspicuous in the picture, and the car is like a gathering place of emotions, and the secrets that have not been told have become the soul under the shackles of public places.
There are also dramatic lines that appear in movies all the time.
When it is discovered that his wife is cheating, the line in the background is "That woman's loyalty is a complete lie", is this really a drama? Or real life? Subtle words correspond to reality, making it impossible for people to cope.
"You're jealous of him, aren't you?"
Obviously, the two people speak different languages, but this dialogue may be the voice that appears in Jiafu's heart, hitting the soul.
After becoming acquainted with Dori, the two gradually let go of themselves.
From sitting in the back seat at the beginning, to sitting in the co-driver, smoking together in the car, from the limbs, you can see that the souls of the two people are gradually approaching.
Facing the collapsed house, when the two souls warmed each other and snuggled up to each other, a ray of sunlight hit the red Saab, perhaps here, as Jiafu said, "It will be all right."
A section of the road is a journey of redemption and redemption for two people, two people, the haze of life, dispelled.
Maybe it's a "tough" movie?
A movie of almost 3 hours, without ups and downs of the plot, in the eyes of many people this is difficult.
People who seem to understand or have no intention of inquiring think how long this 3-hour journey is: a middle-aged man whose wife cheats but does not dare to face it, a taciturn driver, a drama interspersed in the movie, which is basically the whole element of the movie.
People who understand the deep meaning of the movie feel that this is another degree of "difficulty": in the voice of the drama lines recorded by the deceased wife' voice, there is a cowardly middle-aged man who does not want to destroy the original life, and is deeply trapped in the obsession of whether the deceased wife loves himself and how emotional he is with the deceased wife.
Although the driver Duli seems to be indifferent to anything, but since she was a child, her mother's "fist and foot education" for her has been deeply imprinted in her heart, and in the landslide accident, the disregard for her mother has made her feel guilty, and perhaps every time she drives for Duli, she is remembering it over and over again.
Before the two people let go, accompanied by the sound of the sound of the lines being recited, this feeling of "enduring the pain" is long, just like Jiafu said in the movie: Chekhov is so terrible, when you read out his lines, it will drag out the real you.
At the beginning of the movie, people face a dilemma, there are always people or things you care about in life, for various reasons what you want to ask, want to know, want to forget will be deeply pressed in the heart, never declared, and then become an obsession.
When the emotion is suppressed to a certain extent, the person is like a filled bag, tearing open a small mouth seems to be pouring out, but after just a few words, it is followed by a kind of collapse, after which the empty heart is "released".
So in a way, "Drive My Car" is a "hard" healing film that heals you and gets redeemed in the moment of emotional collapse.
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Movie "Driving My Car"
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