Each episode revolves around a female character and is divided into three acts. The three short films tell the story of an unexpected love triangle, an attempted temptation and an encounter due to a misunderstanding. There is no too much complicated technique and camera switching, everything is slowly unfolded in the form of line dialogue, but it enriches the image of each female character, which is a process of deep excavation and self-analysis of women.
Three independent short films present the emotional journey of women at once: the inexplicable and undefinable 20-year-old who is obsessed with love; the 30-year-old who is obsessed with desire and indecisiveness; and the 40-year-old who is light and gentle but unwilling. The moments we witness are all connected to a touching universal destiny, marked by choice, regret, deception and coincidence, which are the real protagonists of the film.
The first act of "Magic", seeing the girlfriend happily talking about the soul mate of her ex-boyfriend to meet and know each other, has always been calm and somehow has an indescribable mood, maybe she does not love but the person once belonged to herself so she is unwilling, perhaps this strange accidental love triangle makes her confused and contradictory, when there is no purpose to find the ex-boyfriend to open her heart, and the past is still so sharp and collision, her own sensibility and rationality have not been reconciled, the last scene of the choice is to remove their own demons, Since love is a thing of the past, don't dwell on the temporary possession of the past, and what does he do with whom he is with himself.
The third act of "Come Again", many years later, back to the hometown to find the person who has always left a vacant position in his heart, on the escalator accidentally met the fantasy of more than twenty years did not see the way she should be, the two mistakenly carried out a dialogue, found that the other party is not the person they missed in high school, the two women also tacitly assisted each other role-play, told strangers about their confusion over the years of growth, and got each other's valuable value affirmation, This can also be said to be a dialogue of mutual psychological redemption between women, even if life is flat and unsatisfactory, do not doubt your own existence, you will always be radiant.
Contrary to men's self-confidence, women are often more adept at self-denial, and will repeatedly doubt themselves for not meeting the requirements and expectations of others, and the accumulation of many things produces a deep sense of inferiority in the heart, just like some time ago, a female entrepreneur participated in a training camp to end her life, when the gossip and criticism of the outside world hit herself, women first thought of whether they were not good enough, collected evidence from the past to verify that they were not valuable, ignored their past shining points, How to carry out self-affirmation and self-redemption is what we should learn, and this film delicately analyzes the ambivalence of female characters, which may bring reference to everyone.
Three short films full of accident and imagination, women's self-discovery and discovery, dense and delicate high-density line dialogue, modern urban stories full of surprises, and retro film tone texture constitute Ryusuke Hamaguchi's new film "Accident and Imagination". The director keenly presents the intricate contemporary daily life of realistic sense and surreal sense, and also presents the inner emotions, desires and fantasies that are difficult for contemporary urbanites to capture, refines the philosophical thinking about life in ordinary life, and cleverly avoids the ugly and torturous components of real life, and completely shoots his own aesthetic style and life landscape.