Nothing brings people closer to each other in the first place than a shared hobby—and nothing describes this encounter better than the movie Bouquet of Love (bouquet for short). Wearing the same canvas shoes, watching the exhibition together without an appointment but wearing a hooded sweatshirt with a denim jacket, headphones are always knotted, kissing at the intersection will silently recite "Thank you, button traffic lights" in your heart...
There is also a scene in the movie where when the heroine Silk comes to the male protagonist Mai's room, she finds that Mai's bookshelf is almost a copy of herself — they have all read almost the same book. If it is the missed last train that allows them to meet, it is their almost unanimous artistic tastes and preferences that let them know each other and begin this bouquet of love.
It is precisely because of the setting that two similar people meet as fate, and the story time spanned by nearly five years described in "Bouquet", we can get a glimpse of what the recent Japanese Wenqing are watching and what cultural content they are consuming through the details of the love and life of Mai and Silk.
After the bouquet of love is over, two people who are 100% in tune say goodbye, but we as viewers may be able to meet good content that is 100% in line with our artistic tastes.
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01 GreeeeN Kiseki
This song doesn't need to be introduced much, right? Released in 2011, "The Dentist" "キセキ" itself is an absolute rammed song downloaded in Japan for more than 10 million, and it is natural for this song to appear at the party occasion in the movie - Silk was called to a party to gather people, and the song was sung in the private room, with the lyrics "Is our encounter accidental?" Whether this is fate" and "it is already a miracle to be able to meet you" also seem to indicate her encounter with Mai soon.
02 Sekai no Owari《RPG》
03 The Mushroom Empire Chronostassis
When the two went to KTV for the first time, Silk sang the song "クロノスシス", and specifically mentioned the "illusion of stopping the table" mentioned in the lyrics. The illusion of time also occurs in people who are in love, releasing full love for each other in a short period of time, as if they have finished their lives with each other.
Listening to this song, I want people to ride on lively drums and soft humming female voices, holding cans of cold drinks on summer nights, walking aimlessly, even if the air is humid and hot, the mood becomes light and fluttery.
The stop-watch illusion refers to the fact that the next movement of the clock's second hand after a quick glance at one side of the clock seems to take a long time to occur.
04 Friends"NIGHT TOWN"
The two who attended their friend's wedding together secretly decided to break up, but sang brisk songs together on KTV, which was completely different from the sad atmosphere shrouded in the next breakup scene, but the lyrics had been "spoiled" in advance: "No matter what, I want to change the future" pointed to the two people who were determined to part ways.
05 Awesome City Club "Don't Forget" (movie theme song)
In the early days of the love affair, Mai once asked Silk the name of a flower (Margaret), even if Silk thought that "the girl tells the boy the name of the flower will make the boy remember" instead of telling Mai the name of the flower, but Mai will still think of her after the breakup, just like the title of the theme song, "The time with you is like melting paint penetrates into the memory.".
Easter egg: Mai's T-shirt
If you pay attention to observation, several of Mai's T-shirts in the movie also reveal his musical preferences, which literary youth does not have a few band T-shirts? For example, on Toumai below is the Japanese band Scha Dara Parr.
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On the night of their first encounter, Mai and Silk have found a lot in common with each other, one of which is that they like to bookmark each other with movie ticket stubs, which are the French movie "Venus in Fur", and the Korean movie "Freedom Hill" is Silk.
01 Venus in Fur
The film is also about a story that arises from a chance encounter, but it is very different from "Bouquet". The male protagonist of the story, as a screenwriter, is interviewing the heroine for his adaptation, but the result is not satisfactory, and just as he is about to leave disappointed, he meets the heroine who broke into the theater in the rain. The male protagonist disdains the heroine's awkwardness, rudeness and shallow knowledge, but at the insistence of the female protagonist, the audition is carried out, and "a good play about men and women, command and obedience begins" began.
02 "The Hill of Freedom"
The film is played by Japanese actor Ryo Kase, who plays a man who travels to Seoul to reunite with his old lover, and many viewers believe that he changed the typical style of director Hong Sang-so, giving people a refreshing feeling. Although the male protagonist in the film is not reunited with the old love, he realizes the dream of reuniting with the mirror and the happy family in the montage of the dream.
03 "Juvenile Murder Incident on Muling Street"
On a trip home from work, Silk mentioned that the two of them had not yet watched "The Juvenile Murder On Muling Street". Many readers should have seen or heard the work of the well-known Taiwanese director Yang Dechang, which tells the story of a murder in Taiwan in the early 1960s. The English name of the film is "A Brighter Summer Day", but it is about three teenagers and a young girl who gradually fall into the abyss with the changes in the social environment at that time. I don't know if mentioning this movie here, whether there is a mapping to find a job and enter the society of wheat and silk will also undergo a lot of changes.
04 "The Other Side of Hope"
"The Other Side of Hope" is a movie that Silk drags Mai to see on Christmas Day 2017, but Mai, who is full of work troubles and the marriage news of his colleagues, is not engaged. The film is about a Syrian refugee named Khalid, who has lost almost everything of his family, hides in a coal ship and goes into Helsinki as a stowaway, and is later hired as a cleaner in a small restaurant when he is deported by the local government. Refugee movies full of kindness, slightly fairy tales and warmth can be a good choice for Christmas movies.
Aya: Mamoru Oshii
Oshii Mori is the director that Mai and Silk like together, and Oshii Mori himself even makes a cameo appearance at the beginning of the movie: when Mai and Silk and two other men and women who also missed the last train, the four of them pass the time together in the bar, while chatting, only Mai and Silk heart tacitly acknowledge, discover the existence of Oshii Mori and try to suppress the excitement.
As a god-level director of Japanese commercial animation blockbusters, almost all of Oshii's works are classic productions. Whether it's the well-known (but not necessarily everyone's) Ghost in the Shell series, or the "Mobile Cop" series, which is popular among iron fans, it is an animation work of cross-era significance, and if you can withstand the unfathomable philosophy that Oshii Mori exudes in his work, then you will see the puzzle of his intention to "give delusion to shape".
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01Atsuko Imamura,Wild Sacrament
Natsuko Imamura is a writer who is a favorite of Mai and Silk, and a Japanese writer who has won the Yukio Mishima Prize, the Osamu Dazai Prize, and the Noma Literary Newcomer Award. How much do they like Natsuko Imamura? Like that when Silk is wronged when she is looking for a job, Mai will comfort her with a sentence "You are very good, people like him must not understand Natsuko Imamura's "Picnic"" to comfort her. "Picnic" is included in Natsuko Imamura's short story collection "Here is Yamiko" (こちらあみ子), which tells the story of a woman in her late forties who fall in love with a male artist and the bullying of the Japanese workplace, depicting a social picture in which various malicious intentions are intertwined.
However, at present, Natsuko Imamura's Chinese Simplified publication is only "The Unknown True Yuko", and I wonder why "Hanabow" uses Natsuko Imamura's works as a "threshold for literary youth" or readers who are simply interested in books can sneak a peek before "Here is Yamiko" is introduced.
02 "Gem Country"
In addition to literature, comics are also the field where Mai and Silk have many common topics, and they often watch "The Land of Gems" together, and they see a handful of snot and a handful of tears.
The Jewel Nation, the first novel by Haruko Ichikawa, winner of the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award, is a story about growth, fun, and battle, but the protagonists are not ordinary people — but 28 humanoid beings with jewel bodies, who perform their duties and are divided into different battle groups to defend against the mysterious race "Moon People" who bring the gems back to the moon and invade.
The story timeline of "Bouquet" is exactly the time when "Jewel Country" is animated in 2017, and it is only natural that the manga has received a lot of readers' attention.
03 "The Glory of Eggplant"
"The Glory of Eggplant" is the first new book by author Yusei Saguchi after winning the Wasagawa Prize, a collection of short stories with the theme of "memory", the expression of his wife on the journey, the uneasy daily life after the earthquake, bankruptcy and job changes, the fragments of those who remember and do not remember... Each memory fades with time, loses details and continues to shine, becoming an irreplaceable existence for the protagonists.
Silk wanted to recommend the book to Mai as usual after reading the book on a summer night, but Mai, who was busy with work, just handed the book to the table casually, even if he took it on a business trip, but never read it. Does this book appear when the rhythm of two people's lives changes and their feelings are gradually estranged, does it also hint that the memories between them have gradually faded? Or did Silk recommend this book to Mai to evoke the beauty of the old days?
04 Golden Majesty
"Golden God" is also one of the comics that Mai and Silk like together, although Later Mai was too busy with work to continue to chase. This manga is about the male protagonist Sugimoto Sasuke, known as the "immortal Sugimoto", who came to hokkaido in ancient Times in search of gold, survival, treasure hunting, and combat are keywords, and it also integrates a variety of elements such as food, funny, and adventure, and is considered to be a treasure drama in recent years after animeization.
Mai and Silk, who came together because of their common hobbies and similar artistic tastes, later expressed their emotional state of gradually becoming less communication and companionship through the change of their reading orientation, and when visiting the bookstore, Silk still pays attention to the literary writers he likes, while Mai looks at inspirational books.
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The Legend of Zelda
After the two people first began to live together, Mai and Silk, like many young couples, said that they wanted to buy Switch to play games together, but then Switch and Zelda bought it, but they never had the opportunity to play games together.
The plot of the game is a sign of the gap between Mai and Silk's relationship: Silk comes back from work to open the game and is ready to play, the sound effect of the game makes her react to whether it disturbs Mai who is working, but Mai just politely says "it's okay" and puts the noise-canceling headphones on to continue working, although Mai is interested in Zelda, he convinces himself that "now is not the time to play the game", at this time, the rhythm of life and the time difference between the two seem to be widening more and more.
Yuji Sakamoto, at a time when many people are not so concerned about love or feel that love is not so important, has written such a love story like a Douban friend, which is really heartwarming. Although many viewers felt that the ending was too regrettable, people who were so tacitly agreed to separate (how could someone refuse soda!). ）。
But if only watching the same book, listening to the same song, and liking the same movie constitute a reason for falling in love, then sooner or later they will part ways. For example, in "Bouquet", when Mai feels that those comics and those novels are no longer important, Silk still draws pleasure from these things, and the two of them have drifted apart
If you are reading this article and you are about the same age as Mai and Silk, the art content counted above may have something you like. The movie "Bouquet" itself is very good, it is a good love, and it is also a good list of literary and artistic youth.