In the cold winter, watching this "Just Love You", the quiet, subtle, sad emotions in the film evoke the memories of first love in people's hearts, faint and sweet. Most Japanese pure love movies start with aesthetic beauty and end in tragedy, providing viewers with a sunny, pure and beautiful life experience.
"Just In Love with You" is adapted from Takuji Ichikawa's novel "Love Portrait – Another Story", which tells a love story about "missing". The slogan of the film is: once in a lifetime kiss, once in a lifetime love. This sentence that the heroine did not come to say to the male protagonist in person appeared in the photography exhibition, and also connected the entire film.
"Just Love You" is a film that adheres to the style of Japanese pure love movies, with its beautiful scenery shots and soothing lyrical music to bring the audience in little by little, making people happy to enjoy this visual and auditory feast.
Regarding this film, I do not want to start from the content of the film, but from the three aspects of the style of Japanese pure love movies, the way the story is told in the film, and the two important elements of Japanese pure love movies, to analyze the charm of this Japanese pure love movie.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >01, the style of Japanese pure love movies: with its beautiful landscape shots, soothing lyrical music brings the audience in little by little, diluting the regret and sadness in the love story about "missing"</h1>
Most Japanese pure love movies are set in schools and tell simple and profound love stories of junior high school boys and girls. This film is no exception, it is also set on the campus, and the male and female protagonists in the film are two college freshmen with diametrically opposite personalities. Makoto is an introverted person who loves photography. Shizuku is a cute, optimistic girl who is particularly childlike in appearance and heart. The two met on their first day of college. Sometimes, the order of appearance of life may be a deliberate arrangement of fate.
Makoto has always regarded Shizune as a friend, but Shizune is deeply in love with Makoto. Makoto has a crush on his classmate Miyuki, who is the class flower. Under the influence of Makoto, Shizuku also liked photography, and the two often ran to the grove deep in the campus to photograph the scenery. Shizuku is determined to grow up as soon as possible for the sake of honesty, and growth is at the cost of life, leaving this world.
One day, in a verdant grove, Shizuku suddenly asks Makoto to take a photo of the two kissing and take it to a photo contest. At the moment when the lips touched, Shizuku felt the greatest happiness in his life, and the heart of Makoto also rippled. But the next day, Shizune suddenly disappeared, and this kiss became a farewell.
This love story is destined to be sad because they end up missing out. Although the background of the story is sad, in the director's lens, the regret and sadness in the love story about "missing" are diluted with beautiful scenery and soothing lyrical music. This sad undertone is washed away in lush groves, sparkling lakes, unknown birds, and blooming flowers, giving the audience visual and auditory comfort.
The smooth shots in the film and the soothing lyrical music bring the audience in little by little, adding beauty and healing. In addition to the love story with sadness as the background, it also allows the audience to savor the tension of the emotions hidden in the blandness.
(1) Photo-style shooting techniques reflect the beauty of love
In the film's footage, Makoto and Jingliu often go to the grove deep in the campus to shoot, and the forest that is forbidden for outsiders to enter is as quiet and beautiful as a paradise. The green leaves, the clear and calm water of the lake, the visit of unknown birds, such a beautiful scenery, love is also fermented in it. The love between Shizune and Makoto takes place here, and their kissing is also here. The collision of beautiful background and beautiful love brings the audience a beautiful enjoyment, but also triggers the resonance and empathy of the audience.
The sun, lake, flowing water, and blooming flowers in the film's pictures become moving and beautiful photos in the eyes of the audience. This photo-style shooting method reflects the beauty of love in the film, sunshine, purity, romance, and the picture of lovers together is not a beautiful photo.
(2) The image presentation of nature foreshadows the fate of the characters
Although honest people are introverted, they are honest and kind, love photography, and like to use the lens to capture the beauty of life and the moving places in nature. Shizuyo is optimistic and cute, and after liking photography, she is good at capturing the sadness and joy of the characters and the true feelings between lovers with the lens. Her childishness is pleasing and precious.
Honest people are like the lake in the woods deep in the campus, clear and calm, not much to say, do not like to be lively. And the still stream is like the blooming flower, at the cost of life growth, the rapid bloom also accelerates its withering. The lake is always thin and long,and the flowers are destined to bloom only for a short time.
(3) Soothing lyrical music that coincides with the overall rhythm of the film
When Chengren and Jingliu went to the small forest deep in the campus to shoot in the film, the soothing lyrical music of the film flowed slowly, without any noise, nor did it affect the dialogue between the characters, but coincided with the background rhythm of the film.
When Makoto and Miyuki and two other classmates go to the beach to play, cheerful music sounds, and the four people lie on the beach, closing their eyes and enjoying the sunshine, and the cheerful and soothing music coincides with the cheerful hearts of the characters.
The soothing lyrical music, which coincides with the overall rhythm of the film, is also connected with the hearts of the characters, full of a melodic beauty that relaxes the nerves of the audience.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >02, the story telling method of the main and secondary lines is intertwined, showing different forms of crush and love</h1>
The film takes the love story missed by Makoto and Shizune as the main line, and the emotional line of Makoto and Miyuki's mutual crush as a side line, showing different forms of crush and love.
(1) Main line: love, once in a lifetime kiss, once in a lifetime love.
The film tells the love story that Makoto and Shizune missed, but has an unrealistic background arrangement - the heroine of the film inherits her mother's disease, which means that she cannot be as simple as ordinary people pursuing love. Once she chooses love, it means that she has to grow, and growth comes at the cost of life.
When Shizuku loves Makoto, he accompanies him at all times, taking his preferences as the first. He likes photography, Shizune also likes photography, he has a crush on Banhua, Shizuku forces himself to grow up fast, grow into the temperament of the girl he likes.
When Makoto finds himself in love with Shizune, when the initial kiss becomes the beginning of the love story between the two, Shizuku chooses to leave, and this parting has become a farewell.
Their miss seems to be that the sincere people did not face their feelings earlier, did not have the courage to take this step earlier, but in fact they are doomed to miss. The setting of the heroine has long been doomed to the end.
Once in a lifetime kiss, once in a lifetime in love. Although this kind of love is short-lived, it is also unforgettable.
The film uses Makoto to visit Shizune's photography exhibition, and those photos become a testimony of their love. The photo of them kissing in the grove at the beginning, and every moment that Shizuku took for Makoto, these photos really existed, and their love also really came. Although they missed it, love came.
(2) Side line: crush, who has no courage to say it, is doomed to no results
When Makoto had a crush on Miyuki, Miyuki also had a crush on Makoto, none of them said anything, no one had the courage to take this step, and they were doomed to have no results.
Makoto has a crush on Miyuki, but he doesn't even have the courage to talk to her. She was his goddess, and he was always looking up to her, and her beauty deterred him. Sincere people are unwilling and dare not speak out to express themselves because of their own conditions, so they endure to put it in their hearts. Such a crush is doomed to have no results, because the balance of love is tilted, Makoto is inferior in front of Miyuki, and two people who are not equal are destined to drift apart.
Miyuki has a crush on Makoto, but because of her own arrogance, she refuses to bow her head, and there is no shortage of admirers around her. When she finally plucks up the courage to confess, Makoto is already in love with Shizune. This crush begins with silence and ends with silence.
Crush, sometimes like looking at flowers in the fog, thinks it is love, but it is just a good feeling at the beginning. Just like Makoto's crush on Miyuki, it is just a kind of admiration and good feeling.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >03, two important elements of Japanese pure love movies: "death" and "obstacles"</h1>
Japanese pure love movies can not escape the two important elements of "death" and "obstacles", death is doomed to the film to end in tragedy, and obstacles doom the male and female protagonists not to be happy together.
Japanese pure love movies create an idealized emotional "utopia", under the beautiful scenery lens, in soothing lyrical music, in a dream world that does not involve sexual desire, materialism, and class, the pure love of the hero and heroine, death has become an obstacle between two people.
The reason why Shizuku left Makoto was because his own genetic disease had become an obstacle between them, and since it was doomed to have no results, it was better to leave earlier.
A few years later, Makoto suddenly received a letter from New York, and the sender was the quiet stream that did not say goodbye. In order to meet Shizune, Makoto came to New York on Christmas Eve and stayed in Shizuku's former residence to make an appointment, but Shizuku has long since passed away.
Shizune's death turns the end of the film toward tragedy, which is characteristic of a Japanese pure love movie.
To be honest, after watching the film, there is a feeling of inexhaustibility.
Makoto returned to the grove, and although Shizuku left forever, every bit of their former happiness took place in this grove. I thought that every time he walked through the grove, he must be happy, because the stillness in his heart had always been alive, and he was still the girl with a childish face, who loved to laugh, who loved to eat donuts, who loved to follow him, just so simple to love him.
Pain and love are intertwined, miss and regret are also intertwined, and because of this, love is beautiful and precious. May the person who taught you to love be by your side at this moment.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > written at the end:</h1>
The director of "Just Love You" uses beautiful landscape shots and soothing lyrical music to present the beauty of love for the audience, evoking the memory of first love in people's hearts, faint and sweet.
Two sentences in the film that impressed me, a sentence next to the photo of Makoto and Jingliu kissing at the photo exhibition: "Once in a lifetime kiss, once in a lifetime in love." One is what Shizune said to Makoto: "I just want to try to like the people I like and like people." ”
It is a pity to miss the love, and may each of us cherish the person in front of us.