Read a book on the road [Weekend Cinema], share a classic movie every week, take you to feel the charm of light and shadow, and accompany you to spend a happy weekend.
【Reading on the Road】Valentine's Day movie recommendation "Bouquet of Love" (director Yutai Doi)
"Bouquet of Love" tells the love story between two literary and artistic young people Yamane Mai and Yatani Silk, two lovers who are good as soul mates, met at the best time, experienced the most beautiful love, and finally came to the end of their emotions and said goodbye to each other.
Why did they finally break up when they met 100% love?
Let's walk into "Bouquet of Love" together and see what kind of answer the screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto will give us.
1. The way of love of literary and artistic youths is like a secret word for the name of a dish
In 2015, Yamane Mai and Yatani Silk, both 21 years old, university students, living in Tokyo.
They, like all college students of this age, lead ordinary and boring lives.
Perhaps the only thing that makes them different from others is that they enjoy reading, listening to music, watching movies, and watching exhibitions of various cultures and arts.
It's just that most of the time, they just bury these little hobbies in their hearts, like a hedgehog protects its soft belly, because they know that these things will not be understood by those around them.
Until this early spring, the two people missed the last train at the same subway station and met very accidentally.
It was a very wonderful night for Mai and Silk, and they were as surprised as if they had discovered that there was another person in this world who was exactly like themselves, and they wore the same style of little white shoes;
They both like Mamoru Oshii; Their headphone cables are always knotted, and getting tangled together is very annoying;
They all like to use the ticket stubs of movie tickets as bookmarks to clip in books; When exchanging books with them, they found that the books they brought with them were all poetry books that they had read and liked very much;
In addition, they say the names of their favorite writers like the names of the dishes: Shinji Ishii, Yuka Shibasaki, Hiroko Oyamada, Natsuko Imamura, Yoko Ogawa, Hako Tawada...
Coincidentally, no matter what name they say, it just happens to be what the other person likes. And even more coincidentally, they all bought tickets for the guinea pig exhibition a few days ago, but they all didn't make it because they forgot.
In this way, the two met, and by March 2015, they became lovers and lived together.
2. Life means responsibility, I have to work
Now determined to move in together, Mai and Silk immediately began to look for a house. Soon, they found an ideal apartment in Chofu City, near Tokyo.
They put new wooden floors on spacious balconies, new mattresses and sheets in the bedrooms, new curtains on the balconies, stained glass chandeliers in the living room, and bookshelves filled with favorite novels and comics.
In this way, they moved into this beautiful apartment with a view of the Tama River.
And so, they ushered in 2016, and in the spring of that year, they officially graduated from school and became freelancers.
They live in a house next to the Tama River and live a carefree life. Gradually, however, things slowly changed, and after saying goodbye to student status, society began to show Mai and Silk its cruel and ruthless side.
In the summer, autumn and winter of 2016, Mai and Silk were struggling to find work.
Silk, who passed the accountant exam, quickly found a job and officially joined in January 2017;
Mai's progress was a little slower, but he finally got a job, a company specializing in online shopping flow, and although it is a new company, it still looks very promising.
Unfortunately, their lives have finally become different than before. To celebrate Mai's job search, they buy a new Switch and The Legend of Zelda, intending to play through the level together.
However, because Mai was a newcomer, he had to participate in various trainings, and when he was assigned to the sales department, sometimes he could not return home until eight or nine o'clock in the evening.
So, this summer, they didn't play games together, and missed the newly released movie "Guling Street Juvenile Murder".
They had thought that this would only last for a while, and that everything would get better when Mai ended his probationary period.
However, more and more things disappointed Silk, and Mai's life was filled with more and more work.
What a proposal, a business trip, a company party, accumulating contacts, all these things, the dream of painting, together with Mai's brush and sketchbook, has long been collecting dust in the corner of the house.
The movies and stage plays that I originally said to go to see together have been canceled again and again because of work;
Because of the non-contract, silk and wheat quarreled and cold war again and again;
Quarrels and cold wars increased, and communication between silk and wheat became less and less.
The love between wheat and silk is as splendid as a bouquet, and like a bouquet, it gradually withers after being brilliant.
It seems that many people in modern life will really experience this, have loved each other so beautifully, but do not know how it is, love and love, the energy of love is exhausted little by little under the pressure of reality and then disappears.
3. Completely similar is not a soul mate, tolerating differences is
The ending of the movie is also very embarrassing, after four years of dating, Silk and Mai attended a friend's wedding and decided to break up peacefully.
They sat in the café where they had a date when they first met, smiling and looking at pictures on each other's phones, and they smiled so brightly at a friend's wedding as if love had never gone away.
They also saw previous photos, photos of eating cake together for their birthday, everything seemed to have just happened yesterday, and they were really happy and happy in the past.
But they all know that they can't go on.
But Mai, who originally wanted to say break up, suddenly said, I don't want to break up, let's get married!
After getting married, let's continue to live as before, it doesn't matter, aren't all married couples in this world like this? will slowly forget the feeling of being in love, and the days will go on.
Even if the relationship changes and something unhappy happens, turning a blind eye will pass. You can't like each other as much as you used to, and if you want to pursue this kind of thing, you can't be happy.
We used to fight non-stop, wasn't it because we were in love and were messing around?
If we become a family, I think we can live a good life, have another child, the child calls me daddy, call you mom, I can think of that scene, push a stroller to Takashimaya shopping, three or four people holding hands, go for a walk in the Tama River!
Buy a car, go camping, go to Disneyland, spend time together, you have me, I have you, and live this life together.
In the future, people will say that although they have experienced a lot of things, they are still a very good couple.
Let's become such a relationship!
Get married, be happy together!
Wheat kept talking, her eyes red, tears about to fall at any moment, as if she knew she was just dying, and from time to time she smiled hopefully, as if she was moved by the scenes she depicted.
At the beginning, Silken was surprised and helpless, Mai actually proposed marriage at this time, she is a person who has high requirements for the purity of feelings, she is unwilling to lower her standards, and Mai will be together.
But gradually, she was also moved by the picture described by Mai, and even couldn't help but say, what you said may be right, if we get married and become a family...
But at this time, a young couple sat in the seat next to them, they were like Mai and silk in the past, young faces, green smiles, wearing the same little white shoes, all missed the exhibition they had bought, and liked the same music and novels.
Their purity and beauty seem to remind Mai and Silk next to us that we once had such a tacit understanding and sweet love, how can we have a long and loveless marriage in the future?
At that moment, they made up their minds and said goodbye to each other.
The reason why Mai and Silk's breakup makes us so sad may be because, in a modern society where it is so difficult to fall in love, two people whose souls are so compatible and whose lives are so compatible cannot go to the end, so how can we maintain the existence of love?
However, are Mai and Silky really soul mates?
Their common likes, novels, comics, music, movies, exhibitions, and even those white shoes, are essentially external things, a commodity that modern capital society uses to sell under the packaging of culture and art.
Isn't another code name for literary and artistic youth the petty bourgeoisie, who shows his taste and obtains spiritual happiness and satisfaction by spending money on cultural and artistic consumer goods.
This is also why, many people will say that Mai and silk's code words to literary and artistic youth by reporting the name of the dish are essentially an act of literary and artistic youth showing blindly, which is no different from the behavior of marking a large number of books and videos on Douban and hanging on their homepage.
If love wants to be maintained, it must not rely on the Douban homepage to mark the book and video, right? Since you can't rely on marking books and audio, then what do you rely on?
That is to understand, to understand the differences in us, to understand that we are very different individuals, to understand the shining points deep in our souls, and to understand the struggles and frustrations we are experiencing.
And wheat and silk, precisely do not do this.
Mai did not cherish Silk's deep-seated desire for freedom and art, the enthusiasm and hope that would never change, no matter what pressures the outside world had.
This is too bright for Mai, who has been exhausted by the beating of real life, like tinder, so he chooses not to see, not to understand, just to pull the silk together to bow to reality and compromise, turn a blind eye, and mix up this fucking life.
And silk did not see Mai's inner struggle, and most of the reasons why Mai gave up her dream of painting and entered the workplace was that she was overwhelmed by the pressure of life because of silk.
He wants to marry Silken in the future, and he wants to create a future without worries for the two of them.
He couldn't help himself from being squeezed by work, and he couldn't see the pain and struggle of losing his dreams. All that Silky saw was that Mai was getting busier, more bored, and more numb.
Perhaps this is what makes "Bouquet of Love" really embarrassing, it is not a bad love story, but a mirror of the emotional life of modern people.
The reason why love is so difficult may not be because of the scarcity of love, but because we are wrong about what love is and how to love each other.
Two people who are exactly the same are not soul mates, and two people who can see and understand differences are partners in life.