Reunion, love, elopement, marriage, about these beautiful words, you finally have the opportunity to do it with the people you like, but at this time, you have to leave, the evidence of your existence, the memories related to you will all disappear, what kind of a story will it be.
I often hear a saying that says, "The evidence of your existence is hidden in the memory of those who love you."
In this world, as long as there is still such a person who cherishes the memories related to you, then your existence is valuable, so we will be relieved to say that "love is worth it". But sometimes, forgetting seems to be a good choice.
The film "She in the Sun" adapted from the novel of the same name by Japanese writer Osamu Koshitani blends this scene of love and forgetting, and tells you how to place her in the sunny place of youth from a fairy tale perspective.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" style="text-align: center" > not all reunions are accidental</h1>
Kosuke Okuda, who works for an advertising agency, is like most of us, and his daily life is nothing more than facing boring work, colleagues who like to talk about gossip, uncertain bosses, and party A who always likes to pick faults. Our lives are the same, and our hearts are numb.
But on an ordinary morning, his brother came to Kosuke early in the morning to make up for sleep, and he also hurried to work as usual, and then followed the seniors to visit customers, but he did not want to reunite with his adolescent first love girlfriend Watanabe In the other company.
Just the glance of the business card delivered with his head down, just a figure hurrying by, attracted his attention. The girl who walked against the light, just like when she first saw her as a student, had short furry hair, innocent and lovely.
He took her business card, which, as he expected, was the name he had in mind. The two looked at each other, bowed their heads, looked at each other again, tentatively inquiring. Compared with Kosuke's surprise, the girl was much calmer, and under the questioning of everyone, the girl indifferently introduced the relationship between the two, who had been classmates, and later separated because Kosuke transferred. She easily erased the once ambiguous component of the two, leaving only the most boring and ordinary male-female relationship to satisfy the curiosity of outsiders.
But this encounter evoked Kosuke's memories.
At that time, Makoto, who had just transferred to the class, was often bullied. But this girl, who didn't look very bright, had eyes so clear and clean that the first time they met, she came to Kosuke and stared at him with such eyes, as if they had known each other in their previous lives.
Later, when Makoto was being bullied, Kosuke helped, and after that, the two began to learn together and accompany each other. Time slows down, the throbbing of youth creeps in, and on the shores of Shonan, they chat, swing, kiss, be ignorant, be careful of temptation, and love quietly blooms in the sun. And all this came to an abrupt end as Kosuke moved away.
In her youth, these memories of her, in any case, are different from the ones she talks about in advertising conferences today, and the ones who sway wildly while listening to the records.
But it doesn't matter, it's just her.
With the help of Masayoshi, Kosuke successfully completed the advertising project. He couldn't wait to meet Up with Makoto and share the news with him. Kosuke laments the joy of the reunion, but he deliberately emphasizes its accidentality, which makes Makoto's eyes dim a little. Seeing that he was leaving, the truth could be spoken: it was not an accident.
This time, Masayoshi took the initiative to kiss Kosuke. Like ten years ago, even if I don't talk, the love of you, the look in my eyes has already betrayed me.
I have been waiting for a long time to be reunited with you.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" style="text-align: center" > there's nothing more romantic than a relationship with you along the coast</h1>
Soon falling in love, they go to Enoshima to see the sea, hang up the concentric lock, go to the mountain to see the cat, and then go to meet Makoto's parents. While everything was going well, the relationship was opposed. However, The reason for Masayoshi's father's objection was not as simple as Kosuke imagined.
Masayuki's father told Kosuke that Masayoshi suffered from amnesia and had lost memories from before he was thirteen years old, and that in the future, memories of you may dissipate at some point. This unexpected situation is undoubtedly a huge blow to Kosuke, who is in love.
But when he faced Zhenxu again, these questions seemed to need not be bothered anymore. What makes him make up his mind to remain with Zhenxu may be love itself, perhaps Zhenxu's free optimism, or perhaps the ridicule of others. But no matter what, the fact that Zhenxu became the most important person in his life could not be changed by anyone.
Walking hand in hand on the road at night, Makoto proposes to elope. She said, let's make up for all the days when we didn't see each other. Ten years ago, missing each other, ten years later, it is difficult to reunite, and they should not be separated again.
So they moved to a new place, met new neighbors, and began a sweet married life. Grab a mirror in the morning when you brush your teeth together, and snuggle up to each other in the afternoon to enjoy the sun, there is nothing more romantic in this world than to talk to you about a relationship.
But Happiness doesn't always take care of the couple. Makoto's body suddenly and rapidly weakens, which forces the story to go in a different direction.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" style="text-align: center" > I only exist to come to you</h1>
Regarding The origin of Zhenxu and the ambiguous past, the appearance of a mysterious mother-in-law in the film completely reveals all this.
She tells Makoto that for her to go from a cat to a human, she is now facing the end of her life. This secret about Zhenxu may have come too suddenly and absurdly, which is reminiscent of the scene at the beginning of the film where the boy meets the cat. It turned out that fate had quietly arrived at that time. Unfortunately, until now, when I reached the end of the story, I didn't understand the meaning of cherishing.
At this moment, Kosuke, who knows nothing, is still looking forward to a foreign trip with Makoto, and even envisions having children with Masu and spending the second half of his life. But the greater his expectations, the greater the disappointment we can expect. Finally, Kosuke discovered the anomaly. In his memory, the kitten he rescued as a child had taken his amulet with him. But now this amulet appeared next to Zhenxu.
Whether it is a coincidence or an accident, it is difficult to soothe the doubts in Kosuke's heart. But his love made it impossible for him to question directly, and he could only be careful to probe and find the answer in Zhenxu's word by word.
Finally, Kosuke saw with his own eyes that Makoto fell from a height unharmed in order to rescue the neighbor's child. She looked up at him, her eyes facing each other, tacitly agreeing with each other. Zhenxu is really the cat that the boy saved at the beginning of the film, and her return is only because she wants to see him.
With the answer revealed, the day of Makoto's departure also came. On an ordinary morning, Makoto, who had prepared breakfast, walked out of the room and never returned. Kosuke, who had taken a bite of the sandwich, suddenly came back to his senses, and he chased him out, not seeing Makoto's figure for a long time, and the other people's memories of Makoto had long been erased.
In this world, there will be no trace of her coming.
He chased him to Enoshima Island, saw his mother-in-law, and begged to see Makoto again. And the mother-in-law smiled and told her that it would all disappear. When the sun goes down, you won't remember her anymore and go back to the usual days without her.
But the movie eventually gives this love a little more tolerance, allowing Kosuke to see The Last face of Makoto. Facing the vast sea, the two were very calm, and their tearing hearts and lungs were hidden in the bottom of their hearts silently. As a human figure, Makoto expresses her fiery love to Kosuke for the last time, and Kosuke fulfills Masayuki's wish for the last time, taking her to ride along the coast on a bicycle.
Ten years ago, it was the determination to see each other again, so that Makoto prayed sincerely to the gods in exchange for the encounter ten years later. Now, it is also the determination to see each other again, let Kosuke cross the mountains and seas, follow the footsteps of his lover, just to say goodbye to you.
Finally, next to the swing frame, kiss for the last time. This reincarnation of this life ends here.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" style="text-align: center" > if you fall in love again, please take a long time this time</h1>
Like a big dream, wake up, everything is like yesterday. The familiar alarm clock rings, the familiar boss, the familiar conversation, the same job, the same life. The people who have seen it once again handed over their business cards, the billboards they were accustomed to, and now they have attached a new chapter. After his lover left, Kosuke once again became one of our thousands of ordinary people.
Everything seems to have not changed, but when walking through the familiar streets alone, I can't help but play to the beat when I hear a familiar song, and then when I burst into tears, I look at the scars on my hands and see that my heart is empty for some reason.
The whole film is carried out in a soft light, constructing a gentle and sad, fragile and kind story on the real world, warm tones, clean eyes, it gives love a chic beauty, but also gives it a heavy and difficult proposition. Those love at first sight in adolescence, those loves that we keep meeting and missing, those pasts that we have a vague memory of, are not the trivialities that exist temporarily in ordinary life, but the stars that have long existed in our lives. Those loves and sorrows, like you, make me addicted, and I make a living from them, waiting for you by the way.
This is undoubtedly a sad story, when a cat and a teenager fall in love at first sight, and the tragedy is doomed from the beginning. But the film gives it a warm ending. Kosuke and Makoto meet again, she returns with the love relics she once had, he ends a long wait alone and begins a new cycle, at this moment, they are all the light in each other's lives, standing together in the sunny place.
Surprisingly, there is also a dreamlike parallel world at the end of the film, where Kosuke forgets everything about Makoto and lives alone. I like this setting very much, it breaks our habitual thinking, thinking that only the person who stays, to live well with the common memories of two people, a love story is complete, but whether this is too cruel for the person who stays.
And when we choose another way, let go of memories, forget each other, a person returns to life, for you and me, it is also a kind of fulfillment.
As the heroine comes back to the light, the sense of happiness and cherishing from the screen envelops people's hearts. In the dreamlike place of Enoshima, we seem to be able to glimpse another kind of life, just like in the film, let us live well with each other in some corner of the world, and then one day create a new reincarnation.
Maybe we will eventually separate, maybe I will forget you, but please believe that the gods will know your heart and are willing to give you the opportunity again and again for you to meet again and fall in love again.
Wait for the new reincarnation to come, wait for us to fall in love again, this time I want to be a little longer. But before that, please live alone.