Yu Aoi, an excellent Japanese actress, won the Best Actress Award in 2004, because of her simple and elegant appearance, she has always appeared in the audience's field of vision as a pure, cute and well-behaved little girl. But this unique elegant goddess does not want to be bound by appearance, and has always strived to break through the original "little fresh" label on the road of play.
She is also known by the Japanese as one of the "three pillars of the future Japanese film industry", and even called "DOUBLE AOI" with her friend Aoi Miyazaki, and the two are recognized as the best acting actresses in Japanese films. Her cold and noble temperament is rare in the Japanese entertainment industry, coupled with undoubtedly good acting skills, Aoi gave priority to starring in many works such as "All About Lily Zhou", "Letter from Heaven", "Tokyo Ghoul" and so on, so Yu Aoi has occupied a place in the entertainment industry. So, which movie is her famous work?
After the Douban score and many movie appreciations, I think Yu Aoi's famous work is - "Those Birds She Didn't Know", which won her the 42nd Shimono Film Awards Best Actress, the 91st Japan Film Shunbao Award Best Actress, and also won the honor of Best Actress at the Japan Film Academy Awards (also known as the Japanese Oscar). Moreover, this is also her largest work since the film, and there are many ship scenes in the film, which is also her transformation work. Why is this movie called Yu Aoi's famous work? I think there are three main reasons:
First, the story of the film is contrasting, which makes people have a strong contrast
"Those Birds Her Unknown Name" is adapted from the novel of the same name by Maho Karu Numata, depicting a suspense story in which Towako, a woman who has been unable to forget her boyfriend Kurosaki 8 years ago, and when she is resigned to depravity, she suddenly hears the news of the disappearance of her ex-boyfriend Kurosaki and her life begins to change.
Looking at the title, I thought it was a literary and fresh movie, but the official has already set the tone for this film: this is a movie that makes you "100% unhappy", and the film is full of black suspense and visual dirt: messy room, moist skin, decadent air, ambiguous intertwined with darkness, rich and depressing, is a film that is lost to the extreme.
To put it simply, this is a mourning film that excavates the essence of life and human nature, it does not have major events that sensationalize society, nor do super-powered heroes and bad guys cover the sky, and some are just chickens and bits and pieces that you and I can encounter in life, which is very real. Everyone's life in the film is not satisfactory, and no one is cute.
There is also a large number of delicate X hint scenes in the film that made fans think that this was a pink film for a while, and then the disappearance of Towako's ex-boyfriend and the foreshadowing of strange events rendered the atmosphere of suspense layer by layer, and finally the mystery was revealed to find the director's good intentions. Incorporating so many elements into a romance film, people can't help but sigh and open their brains!
Second, the plot description of the film is true, known as the "slag identification manual"
Towako does not care about the pursuit of the ideal kind of love, and many people do not recognize such character attributes. When she was judged morally, everyone already wore colored glasses, and such a movie was too real, probably poking the dirty side of human nature and causing everyone's discomfort.
What impressed me the most in the film was Uncle Jinzhi, who was simply old, ugly and poor, with no ambition and a nest, he and the heroine were unclear, and their daily life was to complain about work, talk big and brag, and live old dick. This is not the best, the most unbearable thing is his sloppiness, taking off his socks and picking his feet while eating, and then picking his teeth... However, the heroine is no better, showing that she dislikes Jin Zhi, but enjoys it, the relationship of cohabitation can explain everything, she does not allow Jin Zhi to touch, and will do everything to insult him with all vicious words. Once you have a need, the formation is obedient, what to say, humble to the soil, may not be able to accept it for a while can be understood, but the heroine's, has exceeded imagination, there is no job, life is all supported by array rule, all IQ is used to scare the customer service and take his money out to waste.
I believe that there will be many such people or colleagues around everyone, and the reason why the heroine is "very scum" is because in addition to Uncle Jinzhi, she also has an ambiguous relationship with other men at the same time, and even has a relationship with them. One is her ex-boyfriend, the ex-boyfriend did not hesitate to let her serve an old and ugly old man in order to take the position, when the heroine dedicated herself to love, the ex-boyfriend turned to marry the old man's niece, and beat the heroine. Another is Mizushima, the after-sales manager of a watch company, because the heroine's watch is broken and needs to be repaired, as a result, Mizushima had a relationship with the heroine after visiting the door, and has been out of control ever since. The fact is that Mizushima is also a married person, who came out to steal fishy behind his wife's back, and he also maintained inappropriate relationships with other women except the heroine, and even gave gifts on the ground.
Third, the acting skills of the film actors are online
A psychopathic woman, spending the money of the spare tire to go out to have a private meeting with a handsome guy, and delusionally dreaming of eloping with a handsome guy one day to get married, but she didn't know that the spare tire was the one who really loved her, until she was finally deceived by the handsome guy to the slag, only to find that the most cherished person should be the spare tire. However, everything is already late, love is sometimes like eating, eating too much will not feel the beauty of food, and love too full will not feel your own existence.
In this movie, I have to sigh at Yu Aoi's acting skills, she interprets the image of a "scumbag" to be hated and a little pity at the same time, because in the end, she is left with only endless regret and pain. At the end of the film, after explaining everything, Jinji chose to commit suicide by jumping off the building, hoping that his sacrifice could be exchanged for a new beginning in the future of Towako. In the end, Towako understood that the old man Jinzhi who had always hated her and was not good-looking was the man who had always loved her and cared about her, but this love for Towako was not cherished, and he regretted it until he lost it!
After Jinji committed suicide, the director made a close-up of the three alarmed birds, and later a large flock of birds. Togako looked at them in amazement, she never knew they existed, nor did she know their names at all. Flocks of birds have always existed, but Towako never knew they existed, until suddenly there was a moment when an event alarmed them, Towako saw them for the first time and lost them the moment she saw them. Just like Jinji's love for Towako, Towako had already lost it as soon as he saw it. Or perhaps, this movie is actually nothing to do with love at all, everyone is symbolic to the other, with their own indifference, cunning, cruelty, numbness, morbid desperate to capture their own sense of existence, everyone is like a walking dead, forming the web of this cold society.
epilogue
Finally, have you been wondering: why does this movie have such a strange name? In fact, there are many descriptions of "birds" in the original work, and birds are symbols of "freedom" and "happiness". The so-called "those birds whose names she doesn't know" actually means that Towako does not know which of the three men "flying" around her is sincere, who is worthy of love, and finally falls into the mud of love.
This movie is also very sad, because from beginning to end, it is full of an emotional powerlessness. If a person, in a relationship, only sincerity and enthusiasm remain, then this relationship will probably not last long. Man is an animal with an unstable threshold, and his desire will continue to increase as he adapts. Therefore, human nature is very cheap, and what is within easy reach is not cherished.
Feelings have been predatory since ancient times, defining themselves as lowly people, and humility will become the biggest death hole of feelings.