"Commemorative Hand" was originally called "I want to eat your pancreas", in order to look good at the box office, it was introduced with Chinese name "Memorial Hand".
In fact, this movie is not a horror film full of blood and spooky atmosphere like "The Grudge", but a pure love movie.
It may be that there are too many pure love movies watched from childhood to adulthood, and now few people will choose to believe in pure love movies as innocent and beautiful youth love.
The score of "Love Handbook" on Douban is actually not high, but the innocent love that is born and die outside the degree in the movie is worth our reflection today.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > unexpected</h1>
The encounter between the hero and heroine in the movie seems very unexpected if it is placed in reality.
The male protagonist Haruki is an introverted, somewhat shy, even wooden boy, whether it is in class, or attending activities, he likes to drown himself in the crowd.
If anyone is the most obscure person in a class, it must be Haruki, who is so taciturn that his classmates can't remember that there is such a person in the class.
The heroine Sakura is the complete opposite of Haruki, she is outgoing, lively and cute, and is a well-known social flower in this school.
Two people with very different personalities and life trajectories may not have been deep friends for the rest of their lives, but Haruki accidentally picked up Sakura's notes at the hospital, which completely changed the lives of the two people.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > about life and ideals</h1>
Under the superficial theme of pure love, what the film wants to express in essence is life and ideals.
Remember that the Indian poet Tagore wrote such a poem "born as brilliant as a summer flower, dead like the quiet beauty of autumn leaves", the value of life does not lie in its length, let alone in life and death, but in whether you work hard to spend every day with ideals and beliefs.
From the pure beauty of Haruki and Sakura, we can feel the value and meaning of life very deeply.
Just like Sakura's name, in the eyes of this terminally ill girl, living like cherry blossoms and bringing positive and good influence to those around her, so that others can truly feel the beauty of life and the world, which is undoubtedly the true value and purpose of life.
And this is why Sakura has been taking the initiative to approach Haruki from the beginning, because she has seen in him a rare persistence and firmness, and the attitude of trying to live every day alone makes Sakura deeply fascinated.
Being tied up with Haruki's feelings of love and friendship allows Sakura to gradually free herself from her fear and fear of the unknown and learn to face her deteriorating condition and desperate life with a new attitude.
But for Haruki, to some extent, Sakura can be said to be selfish, she makes Haruki from an introverted shy, full of concerns about the surrounding environment of the boy gradually become lively and cheerful, and let Haruki gradually full of love for her.
But the reality is that Sakura can't meet Haruki's longings and hopes for love, and may even hurt Haruki deeply, and she is not willing to let go.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > "The Little Prince" for movies</h1>
French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic "The Little Prince" is an important clue to the plot advancement of the film, and in a deep sense, this book also alludes to the emotions between the two people.
The book "The Little Prince" takes the wonderful journey of the "Little Prince" as the main story plot, it uses a childlike perspective to lead readers to re-look at the world with a different eye, expresses the praise of life and love, and encourages people to break through the obstacles of secularization and boldly and bravely pursue truth, goodness and beauty.
Most importantly, the masterpiece also offers a profound attack on the values of the adult world in a unique way.
"The Little Prince" in "Commemoration of the Hand", the corresponding is the male protagonist Haruki, in the short and long journey of life, Haruki gradually lost his own direction, it is Sakura who gives him confidence and courage to face the world again.
However, Sakura's unfortunate death once again caused Haruki to lose the direction of life, even after many years, becoming a teacher at the school, Haruki could not forget the pain in her heart, and could not see hope and purpose.
However, with the unfolding of Haruki's memories at the beginning of the movie, the "lost little prince" finally found the direction and motivation of life again from the deceased Sakura after experiencing pessimism, despair, and helplessness, and understood the importance of living in the present.
"The Little Prince" also has a very special meaning for Sakura, in the movie, she took the initiative to give "The Little Prince" to Haruki, who had just met, and bluntly said that Haruki was like the little prince, and she was like the fox in the book who longed to be tamed.
Why would Sakura say that she was the fox? Because she wants to get rid of her inner loneliness and find someone who can understand herself from the bottom of her heart, and the "little prince" Haruki is the object she is worth relying on and talking about.
Therefore, it is not surprising that in the second half of the movie, a man and a woman suddenly come to a two-day and one-night trip and invite Haruki to his home, so that Haruki runs to the hospital ward in the middle of the night without sleeping.
In the final analysis, Sakura did all this only to find someone who could understand himself and talk to.
But in the process, she also unconsciously gradually fell in love with this introverted boy, so some of the plots that happened later were more for the purpose of testing Haruki!
Then there is the "Little Prince" that appears many times in the movie, which is also an important factor in promoting the further deepening of Sakura and Haruki's relationship.
When Haruki did not restrain her inner feelings at Sakura's house because of her inner impulses, Haruki chose not to hesitate to leave, but sakura's ex-boyfriend she met on the road and the stolen copy of "The Little Prince" successfully made the two people's emotions completely complete the transformation from understanding to understanding.
Haruki has changed from passively accepting Sakura's kindness to actively expressing her true emotions from the heart.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" Data-index="04" why is > score so low? </h1>
"Commemorative Hand" ranked fifth on the 2017 Japanese box office list, and the top 4 were "Detective Conan: Tang Hong's Love Song", "Doraemon: Antarctic Ice Cold Adventure", "Gintama", and "Pokémon: It's Up to You".
It's not easy for a pure love movie based on the novel of the same name to achieve such a special box office success in Japan, where anime movies are thriving.
The evaluation of this film in Japan has also reached an unexpectedly consistent and unanimous praise.
But in China, this so-called high-scoring masterpiece is really unsatisfactory, not only the box office performance at the time of release is not good, but also the rating on some platforms such as Douban is not too high.
Why?
The reason why there are such completely different performances is that on the one hand, there are not a few similar works of the same type that have similar plots before, on the other hand, they are affected by cultural differences, and the theme thinking buried deep under the surface pure love plot has not really been understood by the audience.
Let's talk about the girls who are also terminally ill in the same type of work that have been released before.
Leaving aside the films of other countries for the time being, only to focus on Japan, the Sachiko and the touching "Princess Hug" that caused countless Chinese audiences to cry in the film "Blood Coagulation" believe that many older audiences, especially female audiences, have a particularly deep memory.
After that, there are Shizuku in "Just Love You", Yaji in "Exchange Love in the Center of the World", and so on.
Of course, with the development of the times, even films of the same type with similar plots will change in thematic ideas.
Remember the "Wind Rises" that Grandpa Miyazaki released in 2013 based on the novel of the same name?
In the movie, the same terminally ill girl and the boy who firmly believe in love, but bravely face the passing away and strive to live in the present Theme Idea completely replaces the helplessness and pain of life and death parting in previous movies.
The cultural differences between Japan and China may be one of the important reasons why the film is not popular in the Chinese mainland.
I believe that many people know that although they belong to the same East Asian cultural circle, Japan and China have a completely different cultural temperament, introverted, cautious, restrained and do not easily show their inner feelings are the characteristics of many Japanese people, in the long historical accumulation, this has gradually become a way of treating their lives.
Today's China is more extroverted, although it is not easy to show its true feelings, but the inclusive and open side has played a great role in China's successful rise.
Therefore, for many Chinese audiences who are more emotionally direct and realistic, the emotional story of "Nian Nian Notes", which is doomed to have no happy ending at the beginning, is not too easy to stimulate the identification of inner emotions.
Coupled with Sakura's many bizarre requests and the male protagonist Haruki's repeated restraint, conservatism and concessions to Sakura, in the eyes of many viewers who only see the superficial story, it can be said to be strange and incomprehensible, so it can be understood that the movie score is not high.
Overall, "Commemorative Hand" has done its best to make the whole story feel new in the basically determined story framework, and the emotional story and life choices of the hero and heroine are even more lamentable.
For young audiences who can't see their sweethearts during a long vacation, "Remembrance of The Hand" is a good film. It can make people have new feelings and understandings of love.