The Light of Illusion
It was kore-eda's first film called "The Light of Illusion", which at first glance at the title would make me mistakenly think that it was a film with magical overtones, but I did not know that it was a particularly realistic and fresh literary and artistic fan film. When it comes to literature and art, it is not whether the lines are fresh, in the shots filmed, in the soundtrack (Chen Mingzhang), in the plot, in about the life and death of those who cannot be seen and guessed.
It took more than two hours to watch it, and all that was left in my mind was those beautiful landscapes, beautiful background music, light and thick family affection and love, and some unwilling "sense of distance", that is, the "love" that wanted to be close and rare to get close, related to life and death, and also related to personal growth and encounters and farewell.
Feelings are hirsching director Kore-eda in his documentary era has retained a kind of delicacy, ornamentality, but also let the plot, the characters play freely, not too much in the past to limit their personality. Or as he himself admits, the influence of director Hou Xiaoxian is particularly profound, and he loves to pay attention to natural light, the control of lighting, the inertia of the actors, the exertion of potential, the beauty of the film to the extreme, the catharsis of feelings and then erupt, and strive to really touch people's hearts, rather than randomly playing the emotional card.
Movies, what they want is realism, are more realistic than realistic dreams and more realistic.
Jingmei, Qumei, Renmei, coupled with the beauty of artificial composition and the beauty of script setting, a dreamlike and thought-provoking movie appears in the long river of movies, shining, lasting, and lasting. "Illusory Light", so frozen in that unforgettable 1995, became the first milestone in Kore-eda's directorial career, and The young face and breath of Makiko Ekaku (Miyuko), Asano Tadanobu (Yuo), Naito Tsuyoshi (Minxiong), and the youthful appearance and breath were also quietly frozen.
Yongichi and his sister
Mr. Yu Qiuyu once said, "There are some people in our lives who have rubbed shoulders with us, but they have not met; they have met, but they have not met; they have met, but they are too late to be familiar; they are familiar, but they still have to say goodbye."
In the movie, Mei Yuko discovers her relationship with the people around her in this journey of meeting, separating, saying goodbye and goodbye, and meets another kind of "love" in the confusion of pursuing the reasons for her grandmother's "running away from home" and her ex-husband's "suicide", and is also confused in confusion. Tai Ban, what she lacks is a ritual, a "farewell" ceremony, a ceremony that allows people to really let go of the "past".
Therefore, the most spectacular scene also appears in the movie, the strange funeral procession, walking slowly on the seashore, the blue-purple sky, like the tone of the violet, heavy mixed with solemnity and solemnity, life and death, this proposition is also under the footsteps of her constant pursuit, began to gradually reveal, just like her current husband said, "Only a lonely person can see that light."
The forced "tricks" that she could not understand were also temporarily comforted and reconciled in this solo trip and her husband's interpretation. It turns out that being born as a human being is indeed different, and those seemingly happy times and two people who share will also have different experiences and ideas. One person can never truly enter into another person, and only in separation can one be understood, missed and understood.
Watched
Like those who left their families, left society, converted to cults, and self-destructed after doing things that hurt nature and reason, they have never been understood by their families, and they have never really revealed their thoughts and hearts, and the relationship between them and their family and friends, distance, is a gap that can never be filled.
Like her ex-husband, Yufu, the pace of the bump, calmly spend every day, every night, he seems to be living, existing, blooming, warm, pure, love and freedom, but it is possible to just pretend to be happy, everything is like the wind. Only the rest, in the same place, or in the progress, with the confusion, with the nostalgia, pursue the beam, the "light" that does not belong to them (there is a "Pure Land of the West" in Buddhism, and the souls of the dead disappear at the end of the western sea).
Like the old movie "Wild Strawberries" by Ingmar Bergman, Doctor Isaac had a nightmare before returning to his alma mater to receive an honorary degree, dreaming that he was in the coffin with a terrifying look and waking up. Later, accompanied by his daughter-in-law, he revisited the old land, reminisced about the past, and in the process of introspection, it was as if he had experienced a journey of spiritual redemption, and his lonely and unknown past was slowly understood.
In The Seventh Seal, through the knight's game against death, he shows the audience the different ways different people behave in the face of death, and at the same time raises tit-for-tat questions about the meaning of human existence, the roots of faith, and the existence of God. In the dark Middle Ages, where the plague was pervasive and the humanity was lost, he only allowed the family of actors who represented innocence and goodness to enter the clear light.
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So, what about us? What about Miyuko, Minyu, and Yūichi? Only in the process of continuous exploration can we find the true meaning of life. Pain or separation, each is a real experience and a necessary path, in the process of growing up, unconsciously will find that it is not the grief caused by the departure of others, it is precisely because there are uncontrollable plus factors that have been rubbing their fists against us, which has led us to become more and more difficult to move, inconvenient and unwilling to disclose the voice, is the fatal force that induces loneliness.
Negative energy, coupled with repression, coupled with pain, plus I feel that others can not understand and accept, like straw accumulating higher and higher, one day, will quietly bury themselves, flattened.
Therefore, that dreamy light can only appear when people are carrying the weight alone, when despair is approaching. It is a kind of calling, but also a kind of judgment, a kind of "psychedelic drug" specifically aimed at people who are not able to bear enough in their hearts, like poppies, beautiful and dangerous, and seeing it proves that you are dangerous.
Only people who have always been kind, innocent and hopeful can avoid it, even if the "illusory light" is really beautiful, so what? Born to death, full of expectations, the victors, will be brave to live us.
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Sister and brother are deeply in love
Minxiong and Miyuko
Funeral procession
Summer for a family
Ikuo (Tadanobu Asano)