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There may be a literary film here, and there may be a horror film here. I don't know if you'll fall asleep or if you'll be scared even more out of bed.
Tonight talk about a woman who was born for love.
Watch "The Life of the Rejected Pine Nuts", it is best not to pay too much attention to the comments. The story of her life lays out the various stages we have had or will have, healing us and providing some redemptive solutions.
At the beginning of the movie, it is said that fifty-three-year-old Matsuko (Miki Nakatani) was beaten to death. The band's disillusioned and lost love, the confused twenty-year-old Boy Ah Sheng, is suddenly informed by his father to deal with the aftermath of his "unknown meeting" Aunt Matsuko. He is like a reporter who tracks down citizen Kane's last words, talking to Matsuko's acquaintances, neighbors, close friends, ex-boyfriends, and even his father who did not communicate much... Slowly unveil Matsuko's "boring life of accomplishing nothing".
The key character Aaron appears at the beginning
Assei is played by the healing teenager Eita, who is abandoned by Shibasaki's girlfriend.
The key character AV celebrity appeared in the form of a disc cover, see legs...
When Matsuko died, she was a scruffy, fat, foul-smelling, crazy garbage lady who lived in a hut full of garbage and dust.
Even the neighbours were horrible.
Drying sheets and neighbour curtains are colorful, and the brilliant style penetrates into every detail.
It is hard to believe that thirty years ago, Matsuko was a knowledgeable woman who understood literature and art, and taught Kenji Miyazawa's fairy tales on the podium with great enthusiasm, and also had a beautiful singing voice, which was deeply loved by children.
The screen is often treated as a dream halo
However, the mistakes of her life also started with a child who liked her, and slipped into the abyss.
During the school trip, someone stole money, the teachers locked the suspected object of poor character and crime time Aaron, the class teacher Matsuko did not believe Aaron, but she used her heart to replace the head, wanted to hide this matter to protect the child, with her own money first cushioned, returned to the store, the money is not enough to take the money of another teacher in the same room, the result of the store reprimand, she panicked, she claimed that she stole it, and a teacher who witnessed this scene asked to see her breasts as a condition to calm things down.
Both of these events reveal Matsuko's deep reverence for authoritative men, even if they are inward-looking, and she herself is mainly emotionally stressful, in other words, she is a soft persimmon who is naturally easy to be pinched.
This character root should be revealed from her confiding in the first date, the man in white, that is, she has been pleasing her father since she was a child, and his father only has a sick and weak sister in his eyes, and she needs his affirmation and attention to coax him to be happy in order to get love. In her experience, it is impossible to get plain and unprovoked love, and this psychological basis makes her a giving partner in love, even a bottomless giving.
The man in white is a good object for the young girl to carry spring, but he can't even trust her strong desire to talk.
Matsuko once said that she often used clown grimaces to smile at her father, causing her to make a grimace when she was nervous.
When she stole money, she was questioned by the principal and grimaced.
The man in white not only stood idly by with Teacher Se, but also showed a surprised expression, indicating that she confided in her, and the other party did not listen to a word.
She knelt down and begged Aaron to clarify.
Expelled from the school and faceless to see her family, Matsuko only wanted to run away from home. Her sister kept her, and she exploded in anger and nearly killed the man who had "taken away his father's love."
This is another big mistake made by Matsuko, rudely rejecting someone who truly loves her unconditionally.
The afternoon spent with her father at the rooftop playground is Matsuko's fondest memory, and she has nowhere to go to ask her brother for living expenses at the same place.
Here, she learns that her escape has led to the death of her father, who is not unloving.
The younger brother who told her to sell sex and broke off relations with her became a substitute for her father, a representative of "refusing to love her".
Amusement parks are much more depressed than dream memories
The whole movie can see this kind of contempt for women in Japanese patriarchal society, which is the environment in which Matsuko struggles to survive.
Another prostitute is her cohabiting boyfriend, the self-proclaimed reincarnation of Osamu Dazai, a role that makes it interesting to play the role of the most popular screenwriter, Kuro Fujinomiya.
One second gentle, the next second violently beating her
The writer not only abused her, but also left a sentence from Osamu Dazai, "Born, I'm really sorry", and committed suicide in front of her eyes.
It has been overtranslated as "born to be human" than it is translated as "alive" or literally translated as "born".
He was talented, but he could not get along with her or even himself, and this sentence was full of deep shame and self-loathing, that is, he was an untimely person living in the world as a burden to harm others and harm himself.
She didn't understand this sentence at that time, and when she lost her lover, she felt that her life was over—she didn't know that there were more tragic moments in the future, and only in the most desperate situation, this woman full of vitality and enthusiasm, understood the despair of Dazaiji.
Then, she mistakenly fell into the arms of a writer's competitor, who did not love her at all, but was jealous of her ex-boyfriend, could not possess his talent, and could only possess his woman. Talent is a cruel thing, this person does not have it at first glance.
But Matsuko didn't care, she only wanted love, but she made three small taboos, that is, to meet the other's wife.
Where is the stupid little three who blew up his name at the beginning!
She didn't understand that mediocre men valued a stable, habitual life more than love. This is one of the reasons why he is not talented. Pine nuts that love too much, even cooking too hard, do heavy mouth.
She also found that her body is "sexy" from this relationship, has the confidence to do the skin and meat business, and treats the bathroom girl who is disdainful of others as a dedicated service industry, this early dark, hard work and fitness, only Wu Junru in "Golden Rooster" can fight with one.
Even this industry has a trend of renewal, and the fleshy young girl quickly replaced her mature woman with a beautiful body, tall and fit.
The first on the right is pine nuts
The layoff gave her time to go back to her hometown to visit her relatives, but she failed her sister again. Matsuko trembles at her father's authority, and has no choice but to push away her only frail sister who has the ability to hurt in horror, and flees in a panic. Facing her sister, she is no different from the men she meets and will meet.
Don't choose the road, casually take the rotten boy, cooperate to open a store, be deceived, and kill him in anger. These things that Matsuko did in her twenties were not in accordance with the laws of morality, but they may be in accordance with the laws of love. Morality is the norm of socially conventional behavior, and love is a primitive force that does not care. Her life will have to grow to be redeemed.
After the killing, she wants to pay tribute to her "only ever loved" writer boyfriend, ending her life where Osamu Dazai committed suicide.
As a result, he did not die, and was picked up by a shabby barber who lacked self-confidence and stuttered, and became his woman.
People who are born for love often have good scars and forget the pain, get a little warmth, see a little strength of others, fall in love with each other, and sing songs as soon as they fall in love.
Singing is a symbol of Matsuko's immersion in love, even if she is arrested and imprisoned.
Prison life is treated as a hip-hop song MV, which is concise and quite clever, bringing the film's MV-style audiovisual style to the peak.
There is a series of shots showing Matsuko's delusion of the barber who had never visited her, first as he looked, and then gradually into a completely different handsome man.
This reveals that Matsuko is now in love rather than a specific person, and she can continue to love someone who has not met or contacted for eight years, which is the credit of imagination. She also learned haircut skills for him.
Judging by the age of the child held by the barber, it wasn't long before she was in prison that he found a new woman. This is the love of ordinary people.
But Matsuko meets a close friend in prison. Kurosawa Asuka plays a stripper and future AV celebrity, and is a sexy woman with strong attraction. In contrast, we can't help but sigh that if the soft and stubborn pine nuts had the same strong power as her, fate might not have been so tragic.
The aura is strong, the words and deeds are spicy...
Please watch the expression of the teenager who was kissed wet by her...
Even so, Matsuko's spirit of "not being at all uneasy and confused" has been infected with this charming woman with a depraved temperament.
The joyful life of sister Tao
Matsuko can't be satisfied with friendship, and the loss of being scattered and alone is hell for her. In order to get rid of hell, she threw herself into another hell. Or rather, the messenger of hell knocked on the door again.
Gu Qiuzai returned solemnly
Aaron grew up, and this handsome gu trick boy who had a crush on her since childhood and only knew how to fight and kill became the last man of Matsuko.
Pouring all your love into the last man at the age of thirty-five, even into a devastating love affair, is the choice that love animals of this age will make.
Faced with a close friend who wanted to pull her out of the fire pit, she fell with great determination.
Not only did she quit her job as a hairdresser, but she was also fully engaged in the lifestyle of a soprano woman. Aaron beat her up like a man, using her, regardless of her life or death.
She still has unrealistic dreams.
Just as she regarded the married writer as the moon of the world of flowers, Aaron was also her moon, and it didn't matter if she lame for him, martyred for him, or waited for him.
Waiting outside the prison for five years for Aaron, the pine nuts in love are beautiful.
Aaron realizes that he can't give Matsuko happiness and cruelly abandons her after being released from prison. He went back to prison, and the priest told him that only the power of God can love someone you should hate. He suddenly realized that this was Matsuko's love for him. Stealing money as a child, stealing money when he grew up, his several asshole behaviors put Matsuko in a desperate situation, and she always loved him like a loving mother. Aaron's soundtrack to The Epiphany of God's Love is based on the song he heard Matsuko sing when he was a child. When he learned of Matsuko's death, he realized that there was no longer his god in the world.
The same scene, the beauty has passed away...
If forty-year-old Matsuko could still be forgiven by her family, perhaps she would not give up on herself. But on her deathbed, her sister, who was still chanting "Sister, you're back," had passed away, and Matsuko's mood was probably the same as Aaron, who learned of her death. She could only sit by the river every day and miss her hometown.
Chasing idols in later years is the last attack of a woman with enough love energy to attack the beautiful world.
Her desire to talk is still so strong, and the fan letter is so thick!
Garbage Po Songzi, laughing is still so happy, but the love of fans, can not be rewarded.
Why do Matsuko always believe in love? There are two kinds of people who have a firm belief in love, one kind of person has been unconditionally loved by others, the so-called seeing is believing, and the other kind of person has loved others wholeheartedly. Matsuko is the latter, she continues to produce love, of course, believe that there will be reciprocal love in the world, believe in love because of believing in yourself, even if you are frustrated again and again, disappointed, and finally give up on yourself, she does not doubt love itself, but no longer has illusions about her fate, does not want to be hurt again, in alcohol and junk food paralyzed her instinct to give love and desire love.
Bystanders want to say that everyone Matsuko has loved, even her brother, is a scumbag. There are no perfect men in reality, and it is precisely because they are flawed that Matsuko's unconditional love is precious. This is God's love for man, "God is love."
"Matsuko's love, for people like me, is too dazzling, too painful, I am very afraid." 」 Aaron, who has never been loved since childhood, comments on Matsuko's relationship with him and explains why people always avoid love. Matsuko also dodged her sister's sincere affection for her, regardless of her previous suspicions, if God is love, then the sister is Matsuko's god, and it is their father who unconditionally cares for her sister. You see, there is often one person in the world who embraces another person as the all-inclusive God.
Matsuko can only be redeemed by accepting her sister, that is, accepting love, accepting God. Matsuko, who is already mentally ill, finally understands the connotation of "born, really sorry", and once again pushes away a person who loves her deeply regardless of her previous suspicions, that is, asking her to be a close friend of a hair designer.
It wasn't until she gave her sister a haircut in a hallucination that she realized she still had the ability to get back on her feet.
Unfortunately, Matsuko's life was lost to one child, and he died at the hands of a group of children.
Japanese films directly depict children doing evil, that is, the complete exposure of human evil, which is the basis for exploring salvation.
Matsuko may have been happy before she died, she "saw" her sister and died holding her best friend's business card.
She stepped on the stairs to her sister's room, which was equivalent to stepping on the stairs to heaven.
So many people have had happiness because of her, why can't she go to heaven?
My sister waited for her to come home, and God waited for us to go back to heaven.
What about the living Ah Sheng? He understood from Aunt Matsuko and his ex-girlfriend who volunteered in Uzbekistan that the value of a human being lies in giving. He can penetrate the super empathy of each character and make people believe that he will have a better future. Learn to love the world, luck may not be good, but will not go through a life worthlessly.