After thinking about it for two weeks,
Hiroko told the tree, 'I believe you fell in love at first sight. '
This is Hiroko's answer.
What a wonderful start.
To this day, this is still the most precious memory left in Hiroko's heart.
INTERVIEWER IWAI Shunji, Emotion
Poster of the Japanese movie "Love Letters"
The first time I heard about the movie "Love Letters" was because I had seen an analogy analysis of "Love Letters" and Zweig's "Letter from a Strange Woman" a long time ago, the content of which can no longer be remembered, about the various secret loves.
Yes, I have not enjoyed this movie well before, because I am also very personal, I am a very pessimistic person, always with scrutiny and speculation when watching people, and I have a skeptical attitude towards the eternity of this world and all romance, so romance is a bit unwatchable.
However, this is a film that is too suitable for watching on a snowy night. Outside the window, there was the sound of snow falling. When I was sitting in the warm light around the quilt and I wanted to recommend a movie, I first thought of this movie that I hadn't seen before. It seems that the short-haired and black-clad Miho Nakayama looks up at the poster of the snowy sky, which is what winter looks like in memory.
Hiroko looked up at the sky, and the sky was also white, and the snow drifted to her face one by one.
"When he left, the last sky he saw was also such a sadness?"
Thinking, she got up from the snow, the camera pulled away, and she left a lonely row of footprints in the white snow, running towards the traffic of the world.
This is the anniversary festival of her fiancé Fujii Tree. Her name is Hiroko Watanabe (Miho Nakayama) and she follows her fiancé to Kobe to work and live. My fiancé died in a mountain disaster two years ago, and everyone seems to have been relieved about the accident. Whether it's an alcohol-addicted loved one, a colleague who laughs and talks, or even a friend of the tree who has begun to attack her, everyone seems to have accepted the reality that the Slovaks are dead, and only she looks at the world that has forgotten him with a cramped smile.
Yes, even though she had decided to accept the confession of Akiha, the tree's friend, Hiroko still couldn't really accept the fact that the tree was dead. She sends fujii's mother, who is 'pretending to be drunk', away from the banquet, and during the conversation, the mother sees Hiroko's thoughts, takes out a souvenir book of Shukuni Junior High School, and smiles and shares with Hiroko the boyhood of the man she did not participate in.
Looking at the thin Fujii in the memorial book, it seems that you can see what he looks like when he becomes an adult, Hiroko takes advantage of the emptiness of Fujii's mother leaving, rubbing her fingers on the tree's small and almost invisible head, how much thought, how much reluctance, all the people or things related to him, because it is his, as if there is contact with her, with temperature.
Flipping to the address bar below, as if she had been hit by something, she used a pen to write down the address of Fujii Tree on her forearm at the time. Her thoughts and pain, which were the most common emotions in the face of a deceased lover, seemed out of place because of everyone's restraint.
Those pains are disguised with the thickest disguise, even if you are unharmed in front of everyone, even if even you believe that it is over, as if it has really passed. But love and pain have long been foreshadowed in the years, just like this mother who seems to have long been relieved, a relaxed smile, an elegant conversation, but because of Hiroko's love, touched the mechanism of foreshadowing. Then we saw only a shoulder shaking, and a heart-rending cry. Adult breakdowns are always in an instant.
Although she learned that the address of Otaru in Hokkaido had long since become a highway, she wrote a letter to this address, which was to her lover in heaven, to give peace to her thoughts that had nowhere to rest.
Then, something magical happened, and she received a reply from Fujii. From what she thought was a prank at first, to the constant exchange of letters, Hiroko began to wonder if there really was a kingdom of heaven, or if her lover was still alive in the world.
Autumn Leaves, who had been waiting for Hiroko to turn around, of course, scorned this whimsy, but as a close friend of the tree, he had fantasies, and the departure of his friend made him, who loved to climb mountains, have a shadow in his heart, and he has not entered the mountain forest he once loved for two years. He decided to take Hiroko to Otaru to see for himself who had sent the letter from heaven.
The heavy snow in Kobe in the film was actually filmed in Otaru, and the heavy snow in Hokkaido may be more in line with the director's imagination of the snow country.
They walked through the streets that Tree's youth often walked, confirming with their own eyes that the addresses in the memorial book had long since been requisitioned into roads and tunnels. Hiroko was standing at the entrance to the tunnel, where the tree had once lived, and she seemed to be getting closer and closer to him.
Akiba thought that the address was gone, but the letter could be received, was it because there was a "Fujii tree"?
The mystery is revealed, and Hiroko's letter is really sent to "Fujii Tree", but this Fujii Tree is alive, she is a woman. And she actually looks very similar to Hiroko.
"Fujii Tree" is the administrator of the Municipal Library, living with his grandparents in an old mansion. When she was a teenager, her father died of a lung infection caused by a cold, so even if the cold was serious, she was resistant to the place where her father left last and refused to go to the hospital. In the past few months, she has been suffering from colds and is sick.
At this time, Hiroko's letter disrupted her peaceful life and opened up her memories of being a teenager.
Yes, two "Fujii Trees", they were in the same class, and she vaguely recalled the boy who was also called "Fujii Tree". The very thin, stubborn-faced teenager (Kashiwara Takashi).
Hiroko seems to have suddenly understood the meaning of the phrase "love at first sight", but now she can't ask whether Fujii's love belongs to Hiroko Watanabe or to the girl "Tree".
The two women, because of this man who has been gone for two years, have been inextricably linked. Hiroko couldn't tell if it was jealousy or reluctance, she wanted to know what "Tree" looked like when she was a teenager, even if it was those fragments scattered in her memory, knowing a man together, knowing him from her mouth, it seemed to ease her thoughts about her lover.
In fact, without Hiroko's letter, women have almost forgotten the existence of teenagers. The same name and surname, the romance in the eyes of others, as a "party", she recalls all the troubles and shames. It was the time of youth, when the two Fujii were always paired up by their classmates, and she often felt ashamed and embarrassed, and he fought with his classmates for this.
Together, we were on duty and sorted out the books in the college library. He was always lazy, seeing that she was working hard and not helping. They rarely speak, but they often encounter.
He likes to borrow books in the library that no one else has borrowed, not to see them, as if he just likes his name to appear alone on the borrowed bookmark. The warm afternoon sun of the memory scattered over his somewhat yellowed hair, drying them the color of wheat straw. White curtains were blown up by the wind, obscuring half of his figure. She couldn't help but crane her neck and find him looking at her and quickly lowered her head.
Those memories that seem to have been lost for a long time are surging forward, and Hiroko slowly begins to accept the departure of the tree in her narration, while the female "tree" finds that the once small throbbing that was buried deep in her heart seems to be slowly returning.
It turned out that the boy on the library card wrote the name of the girl, and it turned out that when her father died, he found her home not only to pay the book "Remembrance of The Years of Water", but also the original "chance encounters" again and again, looking at each other again and again, are all love letters written in youth without reply.
It turned out that she was waiting for his confession, but in the end, they didn't say anything. That love that ends without a problem, or can be said to be a crush, is forever frozen in the moment of their final farewell.
In her memories, the girl was running briskly in the white snow, and suddenly something stopped her, and she found a dragonfly frozen in ice. Its wings can see clear veins, as if it is frozen in time at its most beautiful moment.
The girl looked intently, and at that moment, she saw the time, the last moment of the dragonfly's life.
The torture of life and death and love in this film is like we are also staring at this dragonfly carved into time.
Whether it is a tree that has suffered a mountain disaster, or a father who died of a cold in a young girl, their lives are forever frozen in their best years, and such a life has no flaws, only beauty. And the love that the teenager has not spoken of, because it exists only in the memories of the girl, it does not have all the shortcomings of love, just like the dragonfly that stays in the most beautiful moment.
However, other people full of loopholes are still pushed by time, or hurt, or wretched to live, inevitably devastated, yearning for perfection, but can only move forward.
It's like, Hiroko, who has always refused to accept the death of her lover in the film, she has released the love at first sight of the tree, maybe not yet. However, in the two years since the tree died, her thoughts are not a love letter to love.
"Love is a one-person thing, and love is a two-person thing. So, I love you and have nothing to do with you. —Zweig
Love is always a one-man affair, and I love you, it has nothing to do with you. Therefore, even if she finally learns that her lover sang a love song to the maiden tree before she died, her heart may be calm.
Akiba took Hiroko to the foot of the mountain where the "tree" died, and she ran to the snow from fear to the end, shouting with all her strength:
"How are you—"
I'm fine—"
Finally, at that moment I knew that the ice that had sealed her had melted away.
Every inch feels life, and all the anger is beautiful
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