In this lifetime, more or less, people will experience some regrets and inadequacies. Miss some people, some things, some unforgettable, some lingering. If you were given a chance to go back to that time you missed, to that time node that has left you tossing and turning countless times, how would you be willing to re-express your heart?
The film uses a fantasy-like setting to restore this scene in front of the audience. When the audience watches the choices of the characters in the film, it will also trigger their own thinking and perception of this hypothesis, life, and the strong sense of substitution formed by empathy thinking has brought a strong topicality to the film. From the performance lineup to the production team, the film gathers the frontline forces of the Japanese film industry and perfectly presents a warm and healing scene and story.
The story takes place in a magical coffee shop with a magical seat where the customer sits, order a cup of hot coffee, and before the coffee cools, the customer can travel back to the time point of regret in his memory. It is impossible to leave the coffee shop during the crossing process, and no matter what you say or do with the life of that time and space, you cannot change the fait accompli. It is such a seemingly cumbersome crossing rule that makes the thick emotions in the film spew out.
Because of the existence of this magical seat, this coffee shop is famous in the area, and many customers are rushing to this seat, wanting to give themselves another chance and talk to people in the past. Nimiko is such a customer, a week ago, the male girlfriend who had been with him was going to be sent far away, and they were actually worried about each other, but because they were too familiar, neither of them wanted to break through the window paper of love first. So the time they got together a week ago, they still didn't make any progress. Nimiko has always been angry about this, and after a week of consideration, she decided to give herself another chance to ask the other party in person about the feelings.
Nimiko sat in her seat, gave herself a cup of coffee time, back to the meeting a week ago, she began to know how to cherish the hard-won short time in front of her, and communicated with Goro straight to the point, although this meeting could not rewrite reality, Nimiko still did not say the simplest and most direct confession, but through this meeting, he still got the information she wanted to know the most, Goro and his girlfriend broke up, she felt that this was the opportunity created by heaven for them.
Back in the real world, Ermiko finally plucked up the courage to send a text message to Goro, and Ermiko, who bravely took this step, also received a positive reply from Goro. I believe that this scene will bring a lot of inspiration to the audience, we can't change the fait accompli by crossing, but we can rely on our own efforts and courage to fight for our next chance.
In the film, yatsuko Hirai and Kantoku Furamaki, these guests, including the owner Tokida, have painful past experiences, and they all want to have another chance to return to that moment and untie the knot. By showing the emotional bond between an individual character and the past, with the other party, and with the former self, the film presents a vivid and touching story to the audience.
In the film, there is love, there is affection, tacit and want to say and stop, the film expression of feelings is particularly delicate, belongs to the more typical Japanese small fresh type, the touching points of each story are pinched and accurately poked into the audience's heart, the way of telling the story, so that the audience can experience the impact from different experiences and different emotions in a film, and the viewing experience is very full.
In reality, when we experience setbacks or encounter emotional setbacks, we can't blame fate or blame others, and many times, we want to take one more chance to rewrite history, which becomes our eternal luxury, which we call regret. All regrets are pinned on the reluctance and attachment of the parties concerned, which is an obsession, but also a kind of miss of the past.
We can't go back to the past, and we can't change what we were, but we can face the future and win a new opportunity by changing ourselves. We who cannot change history can try to write new history; we who cannot change the past can create new experiences. This is the core of the story that the film wants to convey to the audience.
Cherish the present, cherish the present, fleeting time makes this moment become the past in the next moment. Returning to the past can release the knots in the heart, and facing the future can completely open the inner world. "Before the Coffee Is Cold" gives the audience a chance to ask themselves back, facing the past, we are calm; facing the future, we look forward to it. This is perhaps the answer that the film most wants to get, because it proves that the opportunities that time has given us have been cherished by us.