<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > from "Love Letter" to "The Last Letter" - the most heart-wrenching thing is that it is too late to love</h1>
Because of regret, because you can't get it, so can feelings be hidden longer, and only then can you have more fantasies?
There is no turning back in life, but there are still choices and endless possibilities.
From "Love Letter" to "The Last Letter", "Shunji Iwai" uses the fading habit of writing letters to lead the audience through the time and space of regret.
In fact, the last "letter" in the movie is not a love letter?
Or in response to Shunji Iwai's 1995 film Love Letters, to emphasize the relationship between the two?
"Love Letters" is snowy, and "The Last Love Letter" is drizzling.
The story begins with love letters, the film begins with the funeral, and the living people, through the letterhead, recall the past, miss the deceased, and re-examine their entanglements and comb their emotions.
When you officially face the regrets of the past, you can set off for the "infinite possibilities" of the future.
When people reach middle age, they have more or less regrets about life.
Some regrets are relatively hidden, like scars, the wounds are scabbed and waiting to heal, and it will not hurt so much if they are not touched.
Some regrets are obvious, like shadows, so that when people are alone, even breathing will feel pain.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="70" > ✔ - past lives</h1>
Death often comes suddenly, catching the living off guard, and the deceased unexpectedly, so that each other's lives have more regrets.
The sudden deaths of Fujii Ki (played by Takashi Kashiwara) in "Love Letters" and Tono No mitsuki (played by Suzu Hirose) in "The Last Letter" have left those around them with a long time.
In Japan, there is a saying about death (people die twice), once when they die physically, and once when no one remembers themselves anymore. In the Japanese movie "The Resurrection of Yellow Spring", which I like very much, the deceased is even more resurrected because the living people miss them.
From "After a person dies, it is easy to be forgotten" in "Love Letter" to "Maybe as long as someone keeps thinking about someone, even if the other person dies, they can continue to exist in this world"!
It reflects the different attitudes of living people towards the deceased, the former being the deceased who has been gone for many years, and the latter being the relatives who have just left.
However, will the thoughts and regrets really fade with time?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="71" > ✔ - repairing books</h1>
Because of the death of an important person, Hiroko Watanabe (played by Miho Nakayama) of "Love Letters" and Yuri Kishibeno (played by Takako Matsumoto) of "The Last Love Letter" began to write letters, but unexpectedly brought out the regrets that the recipient and the sender had long buried in each other's lives.
However, burying does not mean disappearing.
The regret in the memory came back with the moment the envelope was opened.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="72" > ✔ turn - regret</h1>
The regret in "Love Letter" is that the two Fujii trees have mutual feelings but have not properly confessed, and the male tree has been missing the female tree "played by Miki Sakai" for many years after the male tree moved, so he fell in love with Hiroko, who has the same face as the female tree.
The male tree moved, the female tree had to put away the feelings in her heart, one of this regrets, the father died due to the wind and snow delay in sending the hospital, the second regret.
Similarly, "The Last Letter" also brings out the regrets of the characters in the play through the communication between the protagonists.
Yuri told Otosaka Kyoshiro (played by Masaharu Fukuyama) that if he continued to write letters in the name of his deceased sister, as if he could continue his sister's life, he revealed his thoughts about her and told her about her unsatisfactory married life after domestic violence.
Unfortunately, if the person who married his sister was Jing Shilang, his sister might not have died.
On the other hand, Uchiha's daughter Umi (played by Suzu Hirose) has always looked at her mother's happiness and unhappiness in her eyes: unhappiness stems from toxic marital relationships, and happiness comes from memories with Kyokashiro.
Kami's little wish is that Kyokashiro will come one day to pick up his mother from the tragic world, but unfortunately, her mother took the first step.
"If I say I still love you, will you believe me?"
Kyosero seems to be a person who cherishes her better than her ex-husband Ato (played by Yoji Toyokawa), but the movie does not explain why the two broke up that year.
Anyway, when you are young, there are always a variety of reasons to start a relationship, and finally there are various reasons to end a relationship; at this moment, how to separate at that time is no longer important.
If it weren't for the departure of Wei Yu, would Jing Shi Lang still face this past relationship again?
Hard.
Unsuka has been holding back and may not be able to attend the alumni association.
If you haven't met again, the feelings of the past may have been buried in some corner of the atrium, just like Yuri, until they met again, and then broke out again, maybe Kyoshiro would be the same?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="82" > ✔ - future</h1>
Only by facing up to the pain and regret of the past can we start again and move forward.
Just like Hiroko in "Love Letters", she re-acquainted herself with the male tree, and finally said goodbye to him and said "I am fine".
The female tree sent herself to the hospital in time because of her grandfather who bravely faced the shadow of the past, unlocked the shadow of her father's death, and received the book card of the male tree "through time and space" - the initial and final love letter, understood the heart of the male tree, and learned that there were people who had communicated with their hearts and once loved themselves.
In "The Last Letter", although she had an unpleasant life after marriage, when she remembered her high school years and read Jing Shilang's letter, it seemed that she was the motivation to support it.
Until he could no longer fight with the disease, Yuri and Kami had fantasies and expectations about Saving Hideshiro respectively, until after talking with Kyokashiro, he felt his deep feelings for Hime, and knew that there were still people in the world who were deeply in love with Yuki, as if he was relieved.
Jing Shi Lang may still be full of reluctance in his heart, and even regret it, but seeing that Wei Yu has always cherished the letter he wrote to her, he understands that he still occupies an important position in Wei Shu's heart, and finally he can face this lost feeling and move forward well.
"Last Letter" may refer to the graduation speech written by Unsaki and Kyoshiro as the last farewell letter to the beautiful youth, and it can also be the last letter to her daughter after saying goodbye to her life.
The photo collection that Kyoshiro gave to Yuri may be a thank-you letter to her, but also a farewell letter to the past.
Facing the future, life is full of infinite possibilities and choices, and everyone is equally shining: our future has infinite possibilities and countless life options.