Rainy days, it's a sentimental day. The sparse sound of rain and the little bits of melancholy seem to tell the unknown story: "The rain hits the banana leaves with sorrow, and the heart is ashamed of the new moon"; the sadness of "the small building listened to the window rain last night, and the deep alley sells apricot blossoms tomorrow morning"; the sentimental spring of "cherishing spring and spring, a few beautiful flower rains".
We seem to have reason replaced by sensibility when it comes to rainy days. The story that happens on a rainy day is an unspeakable secret. This secret can be crying in the bed, thoughts in front of the blinds, poems under the notebook... I think that the aesthetic and extreme rainy season in "The Garden of Words and Leaves" will never be like Jay Chou singing: the rain wets the sky and destroys it very exquisitely.
As a Japanese rookie director Makoto Shinkai, I think everyone is not unfamiliar, and "Your Name" has made him even more popular overseas. I often admire his perverted craftsmanship to the extreme, with an almost strict cleanliness for details, especially in 2013's "The Garden of Words and Leaves", which is a delicate interpretation.
The female protagonist Yukino is voiced by kaori Hanazawa, and the male protagonist Akizuki is the voice actor of the white dragon in "Spirited Away", and its clean and transparent voice has to be said to be a surprise enjoyment.
The theme song "rain" is composed by the famous artist Qianli Oe and sung by singer Qin Jibo, and the whole song is relaxed and bright. At the time when this vocal scene is aesthetically beautiful to the extreme, it is no wonder that people comment that "every frame can be used as a tablecloth". The first time it was released in Taipei, it was crowded with people, and it had tens of millions of plays on the B station.
The anime tells the story of Akizuki, who wants to become a shoemaker, and meets a mysterious woman who is not working well in the park pavilion on a rainy day, and then has a mutual affection. They tacitly came to this park and to this pavilion on a rainy day. The feelings between each other are hazy and dreamy, until Akizuki discovers that Yukino is the teacher of the school...
Rainy days are just an opportunity to meet you
The first time I watched this anime, I was inexplicably attracted by the name and felt particularly interesting, but at that time, the young people did not understand its meaning. Makoto Shinkai said that this was the first time to produce a work with the theme of "love", and its promotional slogan was "The Past of Love, The Kiss of Loneliness and Sorrow", which was literally translated as "The Garden of Words".
To this end, Makoto Shinkai explained that during the Manyo kana period, there was a period when Japanese people directly used Kanji to represent "Yamato Leaf", such as "Haru" (HARU) written "Wave Stream" and "SUMIRE" written "Sumire" as "Sumire", which is a more painterly language expression than modern Chinese characters such as "Spring" and "堇".
At that time, "love" was written as "lonely and sad". In the 700s, distant ancestors already had a deep understanding of the phenomenon of love. By the way, love is a concept imported from the West in modern times, and in the past Japan there was no love, only love.
Although the work is staged in modern times, it depicts this kind of love—the feeling of who is lonely and eager to ask for before love comes. This kind of feeling is rendered to the extreme in the rainy season, and the rain also falls on the whole play, adhering to the aesthetic beauty of a kind of material mourning.
It is the plum season in June, one is a dream-chasing teenager who skips class to find inspiration, and the other is a skipper who does not have a smooth job. Their first encounter was in the courtyard area of Shinjuku Miwan Park. Here, they have feelings for each other, and unconsciously fall into the vortex of feelings.
One is immersed in painting for shoe-making inspiration, and the other is leaning on the promenade to drink beer and eat chocolate. The conversation between them finally had a topic in the moment when the eraser was picked up in the snow field. For teenagers, the mysterious loneliness of Yukino is pitiful. Falling in love with someone is always without warning, just like the autumn moon unconsciously begins to look forward to the arrival of the rainy season.
In the face of Akizuki's doubts about Yukino drinking wine and eating chocolate every rainy day, Yukino said freely, "I don't mind, anyway, the so-called human beings are more or less abnormal." This sentence also laid the groundwork for her to be hurt by gossip later.
It's not that I don't mind, it's just that the loneliness in my heart can't be solved. She clearly had no sense of taste except for chocolate and beer. But who can tell you all this, and who wants to listen to her?
In order to thank the bento brought by Akizuki on weekdays, Yukino naturally gave Akizuki an expensive shoe-making book as a courtesy. After Akizuki stole Yukino's unsatisfactory breakfast, she did not compare the truth but joked that she was so clumsy, and the distance between them unconsciously took a step closer to each other during the play...
In the 46-minute plot, the rain is always lingering. The crowds next to the subway, the shop signs on the street, the small freshness of the leaves along the way... Immerse yourself in it, accompanied by a light soundtrack, especially the rain splashing on the moss steps, the crisp sound is even more immersive. For the first time, Yukino recited a short sentence to Akizuki: Faint thunder / Hazy sky / But I hope that the wind and rain will come / I can stay here.
For this reason, Qiu Yue couldn't sleep, but she didn't understand the meaning of this sentence. The rainy day became the opportunity for them to meet; but when the sky cleared, everything returned to the original state, and they had no reason to meet. Qiu Yue still learned to make shoes while working, and was reprimanded by the teacher because she skipped her studies. Yukino, on the other hand, is running away from gossip and lost love, silently enduring loneliness.
In the pavilion, for the first time, the teenager carefully lifted her feet and carved outlines on the painting book. Fingertips carefully touch the bare feet, tape measures gentle measurements, and in a world of only two people everything is nothing.
Their feelings are like the beauty of their first love. The pavilion on a rainy day is just a secret belonging to two people. It's like the bento that Akizuki brought to Yukino, just like Yukino's lie to her ex-boyfriend.
I don't know if when Qiu Yue said that she wanted to make a pair of women's shoes, did she already think of a candidate to send? The pavilion may be what we often call the "old place", and the lover also calls it the place of dating. Then the story begins here, and it also indicates the beautiful poignancy.
The world in the rain is like a secret garden that we tacitly agreed to when we were young. There is innocence, beauty, and exclusive youth hidden there. Just as Akizuki finds the next sentence from the Manyo Collection: Faint thunder / Hazy sky / Even if there is no rain / I will stay here.
Because I want to get close to you,
So I had to make myself better
Do you remember a dream when you were young? Become a scientist, a teacher, a policeman... Or an ordinary shoemaker. At the age of 15, it is difficult to imagine having a clear goal and a maturity that is different from ordinary people.
Qiu Yue's mother divorced, and she was only accompanied by her brother on weekdays, and later her brother also started a family and moved out. He worked part-time to earn money to buy tools for shoemaking, while studying hard. Whenever he had time, he would design some shoe styles on the drawings and make them in the room.
The brother told his girlfriend not to look at Qiu Yue's unprofessional appearance, and the shoes he wore under his feet were made by his own hands. To this end, the girlfriend showed an unbelievable expression and bluntly said that she also wanted Qiu Yue to help her make a pair of shoes. In this regard, as Qiu Yue's brother, he only smiled and said not to hold out too much hope, who knows how many more days he can hold out?
Even the closest people did not believe that Qiu Yue could realize her dreams. For Qiu Yuelai, why not be the loneliness of moving forward? Broken family, the loneliness of the teenager can not tell, for him only shoes have the meaning of existence. It was like the first time Yukino had seen Akizuki's drawings, and he timidly guarded the little secret that originally belonged only to him.
I remember one talk show where Yu Qian said, "Before the age of twenty, you know what you want to do is a genius." "Deyun Society has a theatrical genius Tao Yang, who has the maturity and stability of adults at a young age.
When Lu Yu interviewed him, both talking and cultivating were far more than ordinary people, and the answer was like a stream, when he was only 13 years old. Guo Degang even changed his previous ridicule of other disciples, bluntly saying that tao yang could not be regarded as a child. If a person's mind is still stuck in the past, then what does age mean?
Yukino didn't hit Akizuki, even after he asked to get involved in making a pair of women's shoes. Here, Yukino has a good feeling for Akizuki, and his slightly ambiguous feelings are reflected here.
When Akizuki first met and heard "Yukino-sensei" at school, I thought I could feel his desperate mood. Obsessed with shoemaking, he never knew that the person he liked was a teacher, which was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.
In any case, Akizuki cares about Yukino. Because so-and-so girl's boyfriend likes Yukino, the whole class of girls bites back and fights against her, especially when these rumors reach the mouth of parents, Yukino is rumored to be a debauchery girl. Under the pressure of public opinion, Yukino was forced to resign.
Qiu Yue went to theorize, but he slapped the girl in the face, and was undoubtedly beaten by the group. In the face of Yukino's concern, he did not tell the truth, but only joked: "It is not the school teacher who is drunk and drunk, so he fell off the platform of the Yamayuki line." ”
Yukino covered her face in surprise, showing a concerned expression, and at that moment poked her and could no longer hide her true heart. Perhaps at that moment, even she herself did not know why she was so nervous about a teenager.
If you don't feel it, why miss the teenager on that rainy day on a sunny day, and the day when you lose your sense of taste can only taste the taste of autumn moon bento; lying to her ex-boyfriend on the phone that the only thing that accompanies her on lonely days is an old woman.
Obviously, two people who love each other have always restrained themselves and not allowed themselves to take that step. In times of loneliness, whose love are you looking for? The kind of love that Makoto Shinkai wants to express gives people a faint poignancy in the haze of rainy days.
But isn't that pair of exquisite shoes, working day and night, the best proof? Just as after the rainy season, Autumn Moon began to be absent-minded, lying on the bed and looking out the window. When, even if there is no rain, stay here?
Even if you love across the mountains and rivers, you still try to get closer to you. Even if you get a little closer, the distance between the two worlds will be shortened a little. He was trying, trying to catch up with the snowy field. At the most powerless age, falling in love with an untouchable person may only be experienced by the insider.
They met on a rainy day and ended on a rainy day, during which there was no obvious undulating emotional line. The plot is actually very simple, taking the rainy day as an opportunity to lay out the clues directly, and the story is not strong. The picture is beautiful, but the weak plot is the reason why Makoto Shinkai has been criticized.
However, just as each director has a different understanding of the theme of love, then the "lonely and sad love" to be expressed in the film is undoubtedly successful. It gives people a feeling of "not being able to say where to move, but touching the softness of the heart".
This kind of love focuses on the rendering of artistic conception, just like the freehand mountains and rivers of Chinese ink painting. It is beautiful, silent, and immediate, like the lilac girl in "Rain Alley". "The Garden of Leaves" dilutes the plot from the story, focusing on the subtleties, monologues about the heart. Its world is small, so small that it has only a pavilion sheltered from the rain; the pattern is so large, so large that there is a kind of love that can be so beautiful.
The sea of stars, how can you forget your name
The age gap, the sensitive theme of teacher-student love, etc. undoubtedly make some people stand on the moral high ground, acting as keyboard executioners, trying to erase some of the purest love. What will happen to them together, and will the future really be happy? Speculation and speculation from individuals deny the "sorrow" that they do not have in the world.
I know that there are a lot of ignorant loves, about unspeakable taboos. But is a person's maturity really related to age?
Qiu Yue is not an ignorant teenager, born in a broken family, he has more opinions than most people. He will make bento, he will take care of his family, he will believe that the rumored Yukino will be upset with her, and he will work hard for his dreams.
Compared with Yukino's ex-boyfriend, after hanging up the phone, he also expressed the unspeakable loneliness in his heart. She muttered to herself, "On the other side of the microphone, his tone is so gentle that it is as careful as touching a glass toy." But in those days when even breathing hurts, you just buried your head in collecting the sounds around you, and you didn't believe my words at all. ”
Akizuki understands how painful it is to fall in love with someone she shouldn't love, but Miss can see it from her inner monologue, "It's not that I don't miss her, but if I can't put this feeling into action, I'm afraid I'll always be just a child for her."
He was acutely aware that only two things were clear, and to her, the fifteen-year-old me was nothing more than a child. This kind of love and unsatisfactory melancholy is more and more dull in sunny weather.
We who call ourselves adults are actually not as good as children. So what is the right to ask an adult to continue to be a child?
In fact, Yukino was the little kid. The pavilion during the day was so strange to her, even in her later thoughts, Yukino could not hide her inner loneliness: "Twenty-seven-year-old me is no smarter than fifteen-year-old me." It's just me, all the time. ”
Every day, I dress neatly and beautifully, but I can never overcome my inner fear. Even if one day when love is approaching, the fragility of the heart cannot bear any relationship. The rainy pavilion has become the last spiritual habitat in real life. Even if they pass by, they passively choose to escape.
The climax of the whole play is in the sheltered house, and they spend a short period of warmth. Outside the house was the sound of rain, and in the kitchen they divided their work. One patiently irons wet clothes, one gently prepares lunch after the rain. The mist lingered on the shutters, gradually blurring; the aroma of noodles spread out, overflowing with each other's happiness.
Akizuki said to Yukino, "Miss Yukino, I think I'm in love with you." After refusing, Qiu Yue left lonely, and the door closed, leaving only one person crying in the empty house. Yukino remembered the bits and pieces of the past, and suddenly realized that he was also deeply in love with Akizuki.
She snatched the door and staggered down the stairs, where she met Qiu Yue on one side of the balcony. They looked at each other, and Akizuki roared angrily at Yukino:
Forget what I just said, I don't really like you at all. You seem to be unpopular from the beginning, drink beer early in the morning, fool people with inexplicable short songs, don't say anything about yourself, but keep putting out other people's thoughts. You already know that we are a teacher-student relationship, it is too cunning, if you know that you are a teacher, I will not mention the matter of shoemaking, anyway, can not do, impossible to achieve. Why don't you tell me that?
Do you think that children's dreams are just perfunctory? No matter what I envision, no matter who I admire, I can't convey it, but wishful thinking. You know it from the beginning, so make it clear, it's really an eyesore, and the little children should obediently go to school and say that you hate me. You, you've always been like that! Always say nothing about important things, and then put on a nonchalant expression, and spend your life alone.
These heartfelt words have a deep affection that no language can match. These are not out of confession in the heart, but out of the long-standing depression in the heart, so that Yukino released himself, and the tears could not stop flowing. At this time, the weather was clear, and with the song "rain", she could no longer restrain her true self and threw herself into the arms of Autumn Moon.
Whether they have come to the end, such as the fairy tale "finally living happily together", is not clearly explained here, which makes people reverie. However, in the novel of the same name, Yukino returns to his hometown to continue to work as a teacher, and Akizuki continues to work hard for his dreams.
I think this is also why, at the end of the film, Akizuki said that at that time, I must have been waddling in search of my own footsteps... One day, if I can go further and steadier, I will see you.
The separation of the two may be a test for each other. Whether this test can withstand the witness of time is like those couples who went from first love to marriage. Even though they rarely come together, they still believe that years later, the person who is asked to grow old is the person who held hands when they were young.
I do not encourage impulsive pursuit of uninitiated impulses at an age of ignorance, but I will never deny that there is a throbbing. At the same time, I want to tell those lovers who do not understand the world that there is nothing wrong with love itself, and that what is wrong is only the self that is bound by the world. Time will tell you everything, exhaust your life, can you forget your name.
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