The Tale of Shino Ishito is a 1998 film directed by Shunji Iwai. The story tells that the heroine Yuno has a crush on Nagayamazaki, a high school senior high school, and deliberately applied for Musashino University, where Nagayamazaki is located, during the college entrance examination, and traveled thousands of miles from Hokkaido to Tokyo to study. On a rainy day, I finally met Yamazaki at the bookstore.
The overall picture of the movie is very beautiful. When the heroine Yuno first moved to Tokyo, cherry blossoms were scattered and twilight snow was flying.
As the camera shifts, the movers arrive at Yuye's house. When the movers were carrying the furniture, Yuye wanted to help but could not do anything about the embarrassing scene, which awakened the memories of many viewers. Her embarrassment reminds us of the nervousness and uneasiness of the first time we went to study abroad.
As the furniture was placed, Yuye knocked on the door of his next-door neighbor and offered the souvenirs of his hometown of Hokkaido, who opened a small slit door with a suspicious look and hesitantly accepted it. After making another curry, Yuye invited the neighbor to come and taste it, but the neighbor first refused, and Yuye returned to his room in embarrassment. After a while, the neighbor came to the door with an apologetic attitude, apologized to Yuye, and then entered the door to taste.
Director Iwai uses the small details of these two Yuno to send specialties and invite neighbors to taste curry to shape Yuno's innocent and kind nature, while at the same time, through the neighbors at the beginning to receive gifts only open small doors, refusing to go to Yuno's house to eat curry. The doubts and precautions of the neighbors are fully exposed. It reflects the alienation of people's relationships in the process of modernization and the widespread insecurity in modern society.
I believe that director Iwai hopes to use these two small details to awaken people's feelings.
The camera shifts the picture to Yuno's college life, eating alone, looking for books in the bookstore alone, and reading alone on the grass.
Yuye's college career, like most college students, was lonely and lonely.
Yes, it may be all kinds of small details that can really touch people's hearts, so that the movie gets a high score of 8.3 on Douban.
The film is nearing the end of the main plot.
On a rainy day, Yuno finally meets Yamazaki at the bookstore. The story also came to an abrupt end.
The blank-like ending triggers our reverie.
Beautiful scenes, elegant music, simple plot, all three together give the film a thin layer of sadness. The material lament of Japanese philosophy and the delicate depiction of psychology in Japanese literature are vividly played in the format of the film.
A large number of still pictures soothe our anxious hearts. Ultimately, it brings us a kind of human care.
I think that's the value of art.