More than a decade ago, when I watched "500 Days with Summer", I began to be "difficult to reconcile", but I thought back to the narration at the beginning of the movie and let go of most of it:
"It's a story of a boy and a girl meeting each other, but one thing to be clear is that it's not a love story."
Love is so irrational and illogical that you move ladders, climb trees, sweat and pick a coconut, and when you turn your head, the other person with a carrot in his hand has captured the other person's heart.
You work hard, someone doesn't have to. Of course, there are also people who cherish your coconut and just need you to meet it.
Just like the sigh in Xu Zhimo's poem "Accidental":
I am a cloud in the sky, occasionally projected in the center of your waves
You don't have to be surprised, and you don't have to rejoice—you're gone in the blink of an eye.
You and I meet on the sea of darkness, you have yours, I have mine, direction;
If you remember, it is best that you forget the light that was put on each other during this rendezvous!
Until the encounter with Qian Walnut's novel "The Adult Style of Love", this bearded and somewhat feminine mystery writer skillfully combines the "unequal posture" in love with the "information asymmetry" in the narrative.
The novel was selected for the 58th Japan Mystery Writers Association Awards in 2004 and won the annual "This Mystery Novel Is Amazing!" With "Benguet Reasoning Best 10" is highly recommended.
In this novel, The Dry Walnut reveals a fact or truth that many people have grown up and experienced to talk about lightly:
When you first experience love, no matter who you are, you will firmly believe that this love is absolute. They would use the word "absolute." But one day they will understand that there is absolutely no such thing in human beings, or in this whole world. Only after understanding this will you become an adult.
He called this love affair that made me understand this truth, "INITIATION" (Initiation Ceremony). Let me organize it—though grammatically incorrect, to put it a little more handsomely—INITIATION LOVE.
In 2015, Yukihiko Tsukihiko directed the film of the same name, "The Adult Style of Love", which caused a shock in public opinion when the film was released, even if the film specifically instructed the audience at the beginning:
All the production staff of "Adult Of Love" prayed: Don't divulge "secrets" Oh, please come out of the theater, for the audience who will watch the movie later. Because this film hides a big "secret", please.
For the purpose of recommending this movie, I also try not to divulge this "secret", even if it is difficult.
In June this year, the Korean network theater line quietly launched a movie "Sweet and Sour Love you", although it did not indicate the source of the adaptation, but the clear-eyed fans have recognized this Korean version of "The Adult Style of Love".
The Korean version has changed the occupation and identity of the characters, and also replaced the title of the film, the fundamental reason is still afraid that after the audience knows the "secret" of the original version, they will not be able to immerse themselves in the narration of this version.
"The Adult Style of Love" is more faithful to the original novel, the story takes place in 1987, is narrated by the two sides of a cassette of AB, and finally merges into one to reveal the truth, everything seems logical but surprising.
Whether it is the A side or the B side of the movie is a very ordinary love story, in the youth, campus, idol movies of the year, in the current sweet pet, hegemonic network drama are commonplace.
Under the sun, there will never be a fresh story, but there will always be fresh lips, and the dry walnut provides such a "fresh lip" to turn decay into magic.
In order to distinguish it from the original novel and the Japanese version of the movie, "Sweet and Sour Love You" sets the story time in 2019, and there are many online and new media methods in the form, which are told separately by new sneakers and old sneakers, and the personality of the characters is very different from the previous ones.
Even if the two versions of the film take place more than 30 years apart, the space is also in Tokyo and Seoul, and the character characteristics of the characters are not the same, but they can also reveal the same "adult-style epitaph of love", which is undoubtedly more telling some truths that are no longer new.
But it also confirms from the side how love stories like Liangshan Bozhu Yingtai, Xu XianBaiNiang, and Romeo Juliet have been passed down for a long time.
Whether you will watch the Japanese version of "Adult Style of Love" or the Korean version of "Sweet and Sour Love You", there may be tears of resonance in the process, or moral anger, and even spit on the hearts of scumbags and scumbags, but when we calm down, we will find their tricks in the narrative.
The modern novel of narrative trickery can be traced back to Agatha's The Mystery of Roger, a first-person narrative perspective in which the person who assists the police is ultimately the perpetrator of the crime.
This technique of text, perspective and even result essentially makes use of the tacit understanding and inertia of the reader or the audience when reading, creates a position of information asymmetry, introduces the reader or the audience into a prepared situation, and finally completes the final reversal by laying the foreshadowing to the reader and the audience to announce the misunderstanding of inertial thinking or the trap of audiovisuality.
In "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Kung Fu", there is a paragraph of door-to-door inquiry and door-to-door opening, and finally it is found that the two groups of people open different doors, which is a relatively simple narrative trick completed by using the lens and editing.
It is also common to have the mystery of time, such as the concept of blurring several paragraphs of narrative time, which on the surface seems to be continuous, simultaneous, and parallel, but in fact very long apart.
The separate narratives of Huang Bo and Yuan Quan in Ning Hao's "Heart Flower Road Release" are used in this way, while Nolan's "Dunkirk" turns this narrative into a more distant thinking.
Others are similar to the people in "Roger's Doubts", and there are also character narratives, which are deliberately misleading several different characters into the same person.
In addition, there are place narratives, age narratives, digital narratives, and species narratives, and the last masterpiece of this way is Shusuke Mizuo's "Sunflowers Do Not Open Summer".
A variety of narrative tricks can be roughly divided into two kinds, "fuzzy" is to hide some very normal but slightly special elements, which is to use the blind spot of the reader's psychology; "misleading" is to hide some very special elements, these elements are generally not appearing and difficult to think, which challenges the reader's imagination is bold enough.
Some readers or viewers will question whether "The Adult Style of Love" is a romance novel, a speculative novel, or how the genres of the two films should be divided.
Not necessarily.
There are not these vague and misleading love stories, but also the location narrative of long-distance love, the age narrative of yearless love, and even the species narrative of legendary love.
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