How long have you not made a serious meal?
@Nai Nai Sister
Whether you have recently collapsed because you are staying at home, or because of the hustle and bustle of the city and the deceit of me, you feel haggard, so let's enjoy this idyllic and beautiful movie today, let go of the impetuous mood, release yourself for a short time, enjoy the fresh world of nature and food from the movie, and make a SPA for your soul.
Adapted from Daisuke Igarashi's Komori Eating Light, Komori Ishiko is a food drama film directed by Junichi Mori and starring Ai Hashimoto, Masayuki Matsuoka, and Takato Miura, released on August 30, 2014. Once released, because of the fresh and beautiful painting style, quiet and far-reaching style, exquisitely made food attracted countless audiences, Douban 260,000 people scored 9.0, which shows that everyone loves it.
"Little Forest Summer and Autumn" also has a series of "Little Forest Winter and Spring", if the summer and autumn chapter is about finding the peace of mind and returning to the self. That winter and spring tells the story of finding oneself and growing up. "Little Forest Summer and Autumn" is staged in a small mountain village in tohoku, Surrounded by nature, this small mountain village has a beautiful name Komori, the protagonist of the village from the metropolis back to the countryside, in Komori through his own efforts to live a self-sufficient life, while the film through the description of Ichiko's own rural life and the process of making food, with elegant and fresh music, shows us a picturesque version of pastoral life.
Some people say that this is "Japan on the Tip of the Tongue", but I think I can see more life insights in addition to food movies. Ichiko's life in Komori is undoubtedly the envy of many people who are a little breathless who are bound by urban life, but in addition to food and countryside, I also watched some of the thoughts about life in it, in addition to envy, maybe we should draw our own abilities from the movie. In this article, I will experience and understand the beauty, food and life thinking of "Little Forest Summer and Autumn" from the four aspects of the display of pastoral cuisine, the independence and strength of the city, the greater charm of people giving food, and the search for their own "Komori".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 Idyllic scenery and simple cuisine create a heart-warming and idyllic life</h1>
"Little Forest Summer and Autumn" does not have too many plots, each picture will be Komori's summer and autumn characteristics of the meticulous presentation, each time the beginning and end of the transition is also completed by making a simple delicacy, it can not only bring the audience the most comfortable audio-visual enjoyment, but also whisk away people's inner impetuosity, willing to feel this tranquility with their hearts.
1. The almost primitive and simple way of working is one of the reasons for maintaining the idyllic style of Komori
Komori is a pristine and calm town in northeastern Japan. Because it is far from the metropolis, it retains the cleanest and calmest Japanese countryside style. However, due to climate and soil reasons, the overall crop yield is not high, and it is only possible to maintain the basic subsistence level of the local population.
Living in Komori, to get enough food, you need to grow food crops that are suitable for the season according to the changes of the four seasons, or pick and find natural food from nature.
Ichiko's life in Komori is also a life of self-employment, busy but full:
In the humid summer, things in the house are always prone to mold, such as wooden shovels, which is believed to resonate with the audience who have experienced rainy weather. In order to drive away the moisture, there is no modern setting of dehumidifier in Komori, and Ichiko can only endure the sweltering heat and build a stove to drive the moisture away.
In the sweltering heat, surrounded by disgusting little bugs, still weeding in the fields.
Pick sour fruit from wild bearded trees.
Go to the vegetable patch to harvest spices and vegetables.
Seedlings are planted and harvested with mature rice to make fragrant rice.
Compete with small animals for walnuts that fall wild on the ground.
Many people yearn for the life of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the South Mountain", but they forget that Tao Yuanming also wrote "Planting beans under the South Mountain, the grass is full of beans and seedlings." Morning Xingli is desolate, with the moon lotus hoe return. The road is narrow and long, and the dew stains my clothes. The clothes are not enough to be sorry, but the wish is not broken. " verse.
Behind Komori's idyllic life is the hard work of people, and it is precisely because of these labors that Komori has become so real and beautiful.
2. Simple but refined food is the soul of "Little Forest Summer and Autumn"
Every little story and twist of the film is presented in terms of food, whether it is toast when the stove is dehumidified, sweet rice wine after weeding in the summer field, or jam made from the fruit of the beard, or even Worcester soy sauce made of spiced vegetables.
The display of each dish is so delicate and exquisite, the ingredients are not expensive, and the production method is not complicated, but it is the simple taste that this simple exudes that makes people marvel, but also addicted and yearned.
Food itself is not important, but from these seemingly simple foods reflected a simple, self-disciplined lifestyle and a simple, persistent, sincere love and immersion in life itself, is the most important. The meticulous care and careful tasting of daily ingredients is the cherishing and taste of ordinary, even unknown personal life.
Cherishing your own life, even if it seems unusually ordinary and simple, cherishing food, and living every day exquisitely, this may be the real essence of "Little Forest Summer and Autumn".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 The city in the simple life represents a strong, independent, self-disciplined, and serious way of life</h1>
Most of the movies revolve around Ichiko's return to Komori's life as a person, and for her materialistic desires, she does not ask for much, coupled with a slightly introverted personality, no matter where she goes, she is a quiet, even low-existence person. Such a city is inevitably a bit out of place with the big city of reinforced concrete, so she chooses to return to her hometown, Komori.
Komori doesn't have the colorful life of the city, nor the big supermarket with abundant goods, as the movie says, "There are no shops here, and if you want to buy something, you have to go to the official office in the center of the village, where there are several small shops and a farmers' cooperative." "So living in Komori, Ichiko needs to grow a lot of crops and look for wild plants to make her own food.
Whether it is from the vegetable garden behind the house, in the farmland, or in the forest near the village, she can find the ingredients she needs, and use the methods she learned from her mother to make these ingredients into simple but exquisite food to maintain her minimalist life.
In such an environment, a person living alone is undoubtedly strong, independent and very disciplined. Only in this way can you find your own happiness in Komori, know how to take life seriously, to appreciate the beautiful scenery and cute duck, even if the cute duck in the end has become a delicacy on the table of the city.
Ichiko is also stubbornly waiting for the news of her mother, who has disappeared for five years, although she does not know why her mother left her, but she sees her mother's difficulty from the simplest stir-fried greens made by her mother and understands her mother's hardships.
Pastoral life does not mean that we can be lazy and get something for nothing, but we need to know how to be as independent, strong, pay, self-disciplined as the city, and obtain the needs of life through our own labor, in order to create our own pastoral life. In fact, this point has similarities with life in big cities, giving and receiving are always equal, the difference is only where we live and pursue different.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 The reason why food is beautiful, in addition to the taste itself, the people and stories behind it make food more "delicious", and you can enjoy food only when you enjoy life</h1>
1. The taste of mothers contains expectations, warmth and memories
Although her mother has been away from Ichiko for some reason for five years, Ichiko has always missed her mother, and basically every dish has her mother's memories or learned from her mother. In order to find the taste of her mother in the dish, she made fried vegetables according to her memory, but it was not the taste of her mother, until she peeled the greens and found what she wanted. It looks simple, but there is a kung fu behind it.
When she was a child, her mother said to Ichiko that Worcester soy sauce was unique to the family, and Ichiko firmly believed that until she grew up, she found that her own family was imitation, and her mother always said that it was true and false, which made Ichiko very distressed, because she needed to learn to distinguish between true and false. However, she has also developed the habit of doing everything herself, especially in food, and doing it herself. And every time she sees this soy sauce, Ichiko always thinks of her mother, and Worcester soy sauce carries the breath of her mother.
Ichiko cooks the food her mother once made in Komori, looking for her mother's taste and warm memories of the past, and she firmly believes that her mother will one day return to Komori and return to her side.
2, can be shared food, you can also harvest more happiness
In the movie, Ichiko is always accustomed to sharing his sweet rice wine and baked sweet potato chips with his neighbors, who will also take out the new foods they have researched, and the people in the village will gather together to roast the fire and chat about home.
Most of the topics are related to food, and some married people begin to joke about their wives, some blame their wives for not understanding the style, and some show off their wives' concern for themselves, and happiness is written on their faces. And Ichiko sat next to it, listening to everyone talking, laughing, eating the food she made or shared by others, and experiencing this plain, quiet, but really full of simple happiness.
Sometimes in addition to their own appreciation, sharing with everyone, and using stories, everyone's laughter as a special ingredient to match, in order to let people truly appreciate its true meaning, life to create food, food also contains life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >04 Junichi Mori has created an idyllic world for everyone to relax with a mysterious aesthetic, and this "world" has always been around us</h1>
1. Junichi Mori integrates his shooting intention with the aesthetics of the film, perfectly showing the aesthetics of Youxuan and creating a pastoral picture
In "Summer and Autumn in the Little Forest", director Junichi Mori perfectly interprets the mysterious aesthetics of Japanese aesthetic thought.
What is occult aesthetics?
Yugen is the dominant Japanese aesthetic. The Japanese aesthetician Ōshi Klee has the following interpretation of "Yu Xuan": concealment, obscuration, non-revealing, unclear; faint, hazy, thin; silence; far-reaching sense; fullness; mysterious and unpredictable supernaturality; irrational, inexplicable, and erratic form.
The director uses the technique of Youxuan aesthetics to combine the non-linear film narrative mode, from the story content, character image, picture display, food production, narrative structure, etc., including lens language, picture composition, etc., all of which show this mysterious aesthetics to the fullest.
In this peaceful, distant, and quiet narration, the film presents a unique temperament of transcendent foreign objects with far-reaching significance, and this temperament is what makes many viewers addicted to it. It also makes it very easy for the audience to distinguish "Little Forest Summer and Autumn" from other types of Japanese films.
In the movie, Junichi Mori uses food to string together stories and scenes, showing the different changes in the psychology of the characters, environmental changes, and crop growth. Although these stories and scenes make people feel a little fragmented, they break the audience's previous film must have a complete story structure of the directional thinking, do not have to try to guess the end of the story, do not have to let their brain nerves have been following the ups and downs of the film and nervous, just need to relax themselves to experience this tranquility, appreciate the seriousness and elegance of making food is enough.
Every small story and small scene of "Little Forest Summer and Autumn" is also a pleasant plot, no wonder some netizens exclaimed that every picture of this movie is so beautiful, they all want to be cut off as wallpaper. Mori Junichi's film layout method, in addition to showing his own shooting intentions and mysterious aesthetics, but also gives the audience a broader imagination space, not only appreciates the beauty of Komori in the movie and the strength of Ichiko, but also understands a different sense of life, thus giving the film a deep and broad connotation.
2, never what life is easy, looks good and comfortable, just because of the effort, and did not complain about hardship
The city or villagers in the movie look so simple and kind, always full of hope and laughter for life, as if it is really a paradise. However, from the labor of the city and the villagers, we can also see that in fact, no one's life has ever been easy, and behind all the beautiful and enviable pastoral life is their own hard work.
In addition to the effort, in the film we do not see complaints, only see the serious way of life, but also the love of life, and this seriousness and love, from the heart to make food, with their own actions to give a spoonful of soup, a rice with the meaning of life, from the chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea found in life contained in the simple beauty.
And it is this kind of beauty that has touched all the sentient beings who are tired of running around in the complicated urban life and has become the desire of everyone's heart. "Little Forest Summer and Autumn" is a return to authenticity, but also an exploration of the meaning of life, and this exploration also lights up a bright light for everyone, a small hope, maybe in addition to the countryside, we can also find this beauty around.
3, the real beauty does not necessarily exist in the imaginary pastoral world, but really exists in each of us
After watching the film, many people sighed that they did not have the opportunity to own their own land and country houses like The City, and to be able to live a poetic pastoral life. Every day under the pressure of life, in order to survive, we rush between the company and home, often working overtime until late at night to look at the neon lights outside the window, and our hearts are always angry.
The same chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea has become a life in our eyes, is it really only by returning to the village like Komori to find their own poetry and distance? Have we ever tried to calm down, observe and feel our surroundings carefully, change our mood to appreciate a flower that just opened in the early spring or a bud that just sprouted on the way to work, or were we full of unfinished tasks and meetings that were about to be called?
People are still that person, sometimes just different moods, different perspectives on the problem, we can also find our own side of the pure land in the chaotic city, and find a small fortune in life.
Although we are in the city, we can also try to be like the city, let go of the impetuousness in our hearts, at a certain moment, temporarily forget all the troubles that need to be done by ourselves, carefully and attentively make the food in our hands or plant our beloved flowers and plants, and strive to live a life into poetry.
You take life seriously, life will inevitably return you seriously, live seriously every day, "Ichiko Komori" appears around you, and the time you want will eventually give you the answer.
summary:
"Little Forest Summer and Autumn" is a very healing film, ordinary life details with elaborate food, there is no earth-shattering event, only plain as water elegant life, and this ordinary real, warm, more likely to touch our inner desire, let their thoughts follow the mysterious aesthetics of Mori Junichi, immersed in the picturesque pastoral life, feel a different realm of life, let the soul get a wash.
If you are very irritable now, it is better to put down the things in your hands, open this "Little Forest Summer and Winter", let go of yourself, calm your mind, feel a different tranquility, and then return to work to work hard for your dreams.