<h3 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Flowers and Alice</h3>
<h3 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Director: Shunji Iwai</h3>
<h3 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > actors: Yu Aoi (Arisukawa (Alice)) Suzuki Apricot (Arai Hana) Kuo Chihiro (Masashi Miyamoto).</h3>
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Synopsis
Hana and Alice are a pair of girlfriends, the beginning of the cherry season, the two take a train to school together, on the way met the head of Miyamoto who was looking down at the book, the two whispered about Miyamoto, but Miyamoto never looked up at anything, only cared about the book in his hand.
Flower began to pay attention to Miyamoto, often use the camera to secretly photograph Miyamoto, every time you take the train quietly pay attention to Miyamoto, see Miyamoto and other girls chatting, their hearts are very unhappy, one day Flower took the train alone, did not expect to just meet Miyamoto who is reading a book.
Hana and Alice are students of the ballet, and after Hana discovered that Miyamoto was a member of the school's cross-talk club, she ran to the cross-talk club to participate, and no girl ever participated in the cross-talk club, she simply wanted to get close to Miyamoto.
After school, Hana has been quietly following Miyamoto, Miyamoto looked down at the book and accidentally hit the door, and when he woke up, Hana deceived Miyamoto that he had a brief amnesia, claiming that Miyamoto had said that he liked himself, and the two were lovers, so the two began to fall in love.
The two eat ice cream together, play electric, zoo feeding small animals, it really looks like a couple, but Miyamoto feels unreal about all this, always feels that something is wrong, one day flower computer problem, Miyamoto went to the flower home to help her repair the computer, accidentally saw their own photos in the computer, these photos are flowers quietly taken in the computer.
The lie was recognized to be filled with another lie, Hana lied that Alice was Miyamoto's ex-girlfriend, because Alice forced Miyamoto to fall in love with herself, and then Miyamoto did not like Alice and fell in love with the flower, so Alice sent these photos to the flower to threaten her, Miyamoto temporarily believed, ran to find Alice, and was scolded by Alice, because the flower and Alice had already colluded to deceive Miyamoto, such a friendship is really enviable.
Alice is a single-parent family, but her mother doesn't care much about him, and she is busy with love all day, and when she meets her at the restaurant, she pretends not to know her, saying that she is the child of the neighbor's family.
Alice was found by a scout on the road, let him go to the advertising agency interview, without any acting experience and life experience, she is like a blank piece of paper, the expression will not be done, the acting will not be, but this blank performance has instead received the attention of the advertising agency.
Alice will occasionally meet with her father, her father played with her for a day, and also picked up a mobile phone, but the opposite is Chinese, the father used Chinese to talk to each other, during the meal, the father taught Alice to use Chinese to say: I love you, when the two parted, Alice used Chinese to say to the father "I love you".
Miyamoto finds himself in love with Alice and comes to alice alone, the two begin to date like lovers, Miyamoto asks Alice to tell her about the past of the two, alice has no choice but to weave some lies to deceive him.
When Alice came to look for flowers, she was just discovered by Miyamoto, Alice began to lie to Miyamoto again, saying that the past was forgotten, so the three began to go out to play together, the three came to the beach, The flower forced Alice to say that she did not like Miyamoto, Alice helplessly said something hurtful to Miyamoto.
When playing cards by the sea, Alice said that whoever finds Red Heart A first is the winner, in fact, the cards have long been hidden in her hand, Alice said that she won, to get Miyamoto, let the flower leave Miyamoto, spend a moment to get angry, the two wrestled together.
Alice and Miyamoto were deceitful of the lie when they ate cold powder, because Miyamoto never ate cold powder and would have a general allergy when he ate it, but Alice told him that the two of them used to eat cold powder together. Although the lie is recognized, Miyamoto and Alice like each other, and when they leave, Alice uses her Chinese to say to Miyamoto, "I love you."
Alice didn't know anything when she went to the interview, and then she took off her shoes and danced ballet.
In the end, the advertising agency made her the cover model of the magazine, and when she went out, Lao Yuanhua was there waiting for him, and brought the magazine to share the joy with her, and the two talked and laughed, as if nothing had happened.
"Flowers and Alice" is a 2004 Iwai Shunji youth theme film, different from "Swallowtail Butterfly", "Swallowtail Butterfly" is the cruelty of youth and adult world, "Flowers and Alice" is to express the beauty and ignorance of youth, aesthetic, delicate lens language depicts a story of love, friendship, and deception, and the development of the entire plot is derived from the lies of flowers.
The development of the story is the first time to spend a lie to Miyamoto, and the second lie will involve Alice, what I did not expect is that Alice and Miyamoto have a mutual affection, every plot twist is because of lies, each lie will change the situation of the three people, and then do not know what unpredictable ending will be.
Shunji Iwai once said that he is an extreme director, either as beautiful and warm as "Flowers and Alice", or as cruel as "Swallowtail Butterfly". "Flowers and Alice" and "Love Letter", "April Story" are the same series of aesthetics, "Flowers and Alice" began as a short advertising film, influenced by advertising, and later became a bright-paced romantic comedy, compared with "Love Letter" The pace is obviously much faster, not like the style of the "April Story" documentary, in the world of Shunji Iwai, the more people grow up, the more they yearn for the simple youth, in Asia many viewers like his fresh style, but more people around the world recognize the cruelty of "Swallowtail Butterfly" Some people think that the aesthetic youth is filmed for high school students, and the cruel youth is more suitable for the adult world.
Shunji Iwai is an all-round director, before making the film he had a wealth of video experience, the student era began to be interested in the camera, college years of short films, painting has also been specially studied, advertising, MTV are the basis of his practice, not only that, the soundtrack of the film is his personal battle, and basically every movie is to change his own novel, the film has become a synthesis of all of Iwai Shunji's hobbies, and Wong Kar-wai's films have the same magic, do not pay attention to the story of the movie, Instead, it emphasizes the visual and auditory feelings, as some people say, what a film wants to shoot is never a problem, and how to shoot is the problem and ultimate goal of every director.
Photography enthusiasts will take each frame of the picture as a photo to shoot, accurate composition, will not be sloppy any frame of the picture, spring is the season of cherry blossoms, the foreground is the cherry blossoms falling in the sky, the background is the flowers and Alice in the falling cherry blossoms, the telephoto lens looks at these two girls from a distance, Japan's love for nature is not only used for filming, but the characteristics of their nation, this two-person scene in the cherry blossoms has no use for the narrative of the movie, but like prose, it can evoke the audience's memories of beautiful youth.
The ending of the film is warm, the two did not become intolerable because they liked the same boy, but like nothing happened, there was talk and laughter together, Miyamoto became a distant past, she was just a passer-by in the growth of Flowers and Alice, the film did not explain the relationship between the three of them later, but from the perspective of the intimate relationship between the two, Miyamoto has become less important.