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Whenever we stop to reminisce about the past of youth, we will always lament how good it is for youth to have an ageless face.
After sighing, I will also miss the once crystal clear self, but I will eventually be rubbed into a sophisticated look of ravines.
Just like the film that Pigo is going to introduce, "Flowers and Alice".
Director: Shunji Iwai
Writers: Shunji Iwai
Starring: Apricot Suzuki / Yu Aoi / Jihiro Kuo / Sei Hirai / Tae Kimura / more...
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Language: Japanese
Screening Date: 2004-03-13 (Japan)
Runtime: 135 minutes
Douban score: 8.1
The director of this film, Shunji Iwai, is known as the "Wong Kar-wai of Japan", and his film style is beautiful and ethereal, and the characters in the film always switch freely between rhyme, introversion and wildness.
Sometimes after watching his movie, Pigo will feel a little sad upper body, it turns out that at a certain age, looking at the bottom of the present, it can be so nostalgic.
Of course, Shunji Iwai can always accurately and perfectly convey the familiar but unavoidable pain with delicate lenses.
In this film, we can clearly see the love and pain mixed between the two flower girls in the ignorant and beautiful youth.
The two intimate girls in the film, Hana and Alice, are played by the famous Japanese movie stars Suzuki Apricot and Yu Aoi, whom we Chinese fans call "wives".
The two goddesses of youth came together, adding a lot of color to the movie.
Yu Aoi, who plays Alice, can be said to be the proud love of Shunji Iwai, and won several film festivals last year with the film "Those Birds She Doesn't Know Their Names".
Her clear as water temperament and the bright smile on her face at all times make her always look very unique in the crowd.
Some people think that she is not alluring enough, but the light breeze and elegant casualness she inadvertently exudes will make your eyes stop and you will not leave for a long time.
Such a person is born with light, just a few years after his debut, Aoi Yu has gained a large number of fans and industry recognition with his acting skills, and he has been rated by the media as one of the three pillars of future Japanese films, which can be said to be the best actress in the same period.
And Suzuki Apricot, the actor of the flower, is the goddess of youth in the memory of many otaku in China.
Many people know her from the "Head Text D" starring Jay Chou, although the beautiful and generous Natsuki in the film hurt Zhou Dong emotionally, but after the release of the movie, Suzuki Apricot himself has become the white moonlight in the hearts of many boys.
It is no wonder that Suzuki Apricot at that time looked sweet, acting naturally and smoothly, and was once praised by the media as a genius and beautiful girl.
Before "Head Text D", Suzuki Apricot was popular with countless fans with "Young Kaneda Ichi", "Blue Bird" and this "Flower and Alice".
Unfortunately, after "Head Text D", Suzuki Apricot's career declined very badly, and he never took a shot again.
What is even more frightening is that the beautiful girls of the past began to be blessed with a blessed body and a mutilated appearance, which made people sigh endlessly.
Today's "Flowers and Alice" is not only a representative work of the two people's acting careers, but also a generation's recollection of youth.
Flower and Alice are a pair of good friends, Flower is introverted and shy, and Alice is lively and generous.
Two people go to and from school together, learn ballet together, explore the human way together, and experience the colorful life.
But in the cardamom years, the vision of love is also budding.
On this day, the two girls met two boys, and Alice took a look at one of the handsome men of mixed race, so she pointed to another silent teenager, smiled and said to the flower, the other one is left for you.
Like the scene when girls and girlfriends often joke with handsome guys at school?
For Alice, it may have been an inadvertent joke, but it quietly became a turning point in what happened next.
Miyamoto Masahiro, the big boy whom Alice describes as "the other", has also become the most unspeakable of Flower and Alice's youth.
I don't know what to do, but I have a deep affection.
Unable to help herself fall in love with the boy, She secretly tracks Miyamoto and uses her camera to capture Miyamoto's beautiful moments of warmth and jade.
Miyamoto, on the other hand, holds a notebook every day, still chanting something in his mouth, does not hear anything outside the window, seems careless about everything around him, and does not perceive the pair of loving eyes that silently stare at him behind his back.
Coincidentally, both Hana and Alice were admitted to the university where Miyamoto was studying, and Hana became a member of Miyamoto's cross-talk club.
Finally, one day, while walking, Miyamoto, who was watching the book in his hand, hit the safety door of the store and woke up with a brief amnesia.
Looking into Miyamoto's trance-like eyes, Hana took the opportunity to say something that changed the fate of her, Alice, and Miyamoto: "You have lost your memory? You said you liked me. ”
Just as the beginning of a lie means that countless lies need to be used to circle, Miyamoto inadvertently discovers that Hana's computer contains many photos of himself.
When he asks Hana what the situation is, Hana can only say in a hurry that the photos were taken by Miyamoto's ex-girlfriend Alice.
In this way, Alice is inexplicably involved in the lie of the flower and the girl's heart, but we all know that youth is full of regrets, and this love that begins with lies will be more fragile.
In order to restore her previous memories, Miyamoto found Alice, hoping that Alice would take her on a journey and tell the story of their past.
At first, Alice simply yelled at Miyamoto to leave in order to help Hana, but over time, Alice was unable to refuse the man's request to stay like a breeze.
Unconsciously, the two people have a good feeling for each other in the process of getting along, and Miyamoto gradually discovers that the girl he likes is not Hana, but his ex-girlfriend Alice, and because of this boy, the contradiction between Flower and Alice is becoming more and more complicated.
At that time, the friendship between the boys and girls was greater than the sky.
Alice also knows that the cute boy in front of her is a good friend who likes, and she is the most trusted girlfriend of the flower, on the one hand is friendship, on the other side is love, only by breaking away from herself can this triangle relationship end quietly in the silent place.
So, despite her reluctance, Alice found Miyamoto and confessed everything to Miyamoto.
Miyamoto had no memory of that period at all, and the so-called past was nothing more than a lie, but the new memories they created during this period were not fake.
Finally, Alice whispered the words "I love you, goodbye" in Chinese, and her throbbing heart stopped there.
The boy in Mune looked dazed, and at this moment, he did not know that he had lost someone who loved him.
Flower didn't know what Alice had given up for her, but she understood that it was Alice who took her into this complicated world when she was in the dark, I love, do not need to be confirmed, live, have friendship, life is fortunate, what is needed.
She finally understood that she was wrong, that she had been wrong from the beginning, but that she had to stop the loss in time.
Before one of the stage performances, Hana confessed her mistake to Miyamoto with her back to him, holding back tears.
In saying goodbye to her favorite boy, Hua kept her back to her, and she carefully suppressed her tears so that her beloved would not see her flickering teardrops.
That stubborn, sad face was full of sincerity and repentance.
In this performance of this shot, the director uses a lot of close-up shots and parallel editing, and the facial expressions of the flowers and the suppressed emotions are in stark contrast to the laughter of everyone in the stage audience, but the people who should be sad have to pretend to be strong.
On the other hand, Alice goes around interviewing for a magazine model job in order to help her mother, who is in love, to make up for her life.
In an interview, the interviewer asked Alice to come to a ballet show, in the absence of dancing shoes, Alice made full use of paper cups and tape, danced her best ballet, her every dance step, should be the beat of the perfect fit with the movie, every dancing action, are moving.
This solo dance surprised everyone, and Alice was finally successfully admitted and appeared on the cover of the magazine.
In just a few minutes, the graceful dance represents the silent and unrestrained growth of a young girl like a butterfly.
Behind the seeming loss is actually the harvest of growth.
At the end of the movie, the two young girls meet again on the forest path, experiencing all kinds of things, and there is still no barrier between them, some talking and laughing jokes, and the smiling faces of youth bloom like flowers in the mild sun.
Some people say that after watching this "Flowers and Alice", I feel that Iwai Shunji is telling his own story, and impetuous, and the hustle and bustle, making you feel as if floating in the calm sea, along the past direction, see is to go with the flow, what you have is a fluke, and regret that what has passed away is life.
I have to say that Iwai Shunji's film is best at the delicate emotions contained in the beautiful picture, his movies are not all missed and lost, if you really understand his works, you will understand that in the memory, the protagonists know how to face themselves more after regret, take the initiative to let go of obsession, calmly face the loss, but can get the peace of mind and the valuable experience of growth.
Just like the sudden cheerfulness of the flowers at the end, smiling in the face of the loss of love, Alice danced in her homemade ballet shoes, which is the youth that Shunji Iwai brought to everyone, sad but beautiful.
In a fate that is difficult to grasp, feelings are the answer to all suffering.
Trees grow, birds sing, life does not stop, memories do not die, it quietly leads you from the decadent middle-aged years at the bottom of the eye back to the green time, to see that the little secret hidden under the cherry blossom rain is finally transformed into a glimpse of a shallow smile, how can you not tears?
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