The band that was playing on the stage included an eighty-year-old man, a girl from elementary school, a locomotive master, a millet liquor salesman, a substitute postman, and a father and son of a traffic policeman. Who can imagine what kind of story they have all experienced and experienced? No matter what kind of past they have behind them, they are immersed in music, they are the most beautiful and the most touching.
One day in college, in boredom, I wanted to listen to some music, and I didn't know what song to find. So under the recommendation of a distant friend, I heard this song that I never tire of hearing- "Cape Seven", with sadness, with loneliness, and a glimmer of hope, like a gentle sea breeze, soothing the frustration of foreigners, sitting in a quiet corner, looping over and over again. However, the mood of the young man, like an uncertain cloud, was blown by the wind, and he did not know when, he dispersed. I don't know what day it was, and the song that accompanied me through the frustration and loneliness also disappeared in my ears.
One day many years later, I suddenly remembered the familiar melody in my ears, opened my mobile phone, and suddenly burst into tears. It turns out that this song is also a movie. So, when I was alone, quietly, I opened this old movie, and it turned out that it was not only about music, but also love, and dreams, and the way back home. Everyone in the movie has a realistic shadow, so even if there is no shocking picture and shot, or plot, it is still moving and unwilling to fast-forward.
The story told in the film is actually very simple, and the shooting method is also eloquent, occasionally interspersed with pictures from 60 years ago, just like an old man who calmly tells the past after experiencing the changes of the world. The listener listened quietly, touched by the character's touch, and smirked at the character's smirk.
Frustrated in his career, the lead singer of the band returned to his hometown to become a postman, but opened a fatalistic love that drowned the times.
Originally the lead singer of the Taipei Band, Ajia returned to the town of Hengchun with exhaustion and inner reluctance. Due to the old postman Maurer's leg in a traffic accident, Ajia became a substitute postman under the mediation of his stepfather. Ajia, who is dissatisfied with the status quo in her heart, certainly does not like this job, and is even very irresponsible, late to work, and has a bad attitude, often not delivering letters on time. Later, the old postman Mawber knew about it, but he was angry and broke his heart.
However, it was this postman's job that opened up a past that had been sealed for many years. It turned out that among the mail sent, there was a copy sent from Japan, and the recipient wrote Tomoko Hiroshima, and the address was No. 7 Cape, Hengchun County. Since there was no such person, and the receiving address was not known where it was now, the old postman Maeber told Ah Jia to return the letter.
Instead of returning it, Aja opened the parcel. Inside, there is an old black-and-white photograph of a young girl named Tomoko. There are also 7 letters. It was written by a Japanese male teacher 60 years ago.
It turned out that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Taiwan's tomoko fell in love with a male teacher in the diary. Later, Japan was defeated, and the Japanese male teacher was repatriated to China. Originally planned to take Tomoko with him, but out of shame or cowardice in the defeated country, he flinched when Tomoko fled from his family and came to the dock with his luggage to find him. Leaving Yuko alone, he left Taiwan and returned to Japan. On the way back to Japan, the Japanese male teacher wrote 7 of the most authentic, pure, and most sad and helpless love letters. He said that when he arrived in Japan, he would send the letter to Yuko, but knowing that he had died of illness, the seven letters were sealed in the closet. It was not until his son sorted out his father's belongings that he did not find out. After the son knew, he took the place of his father and sent 7 letters of affection that were sixty years late.
The contents of the letter are full of unforgettable true feelings, but the changes of the times and wars seem to have nothing to do with ordinary people, but they affect the lives of ordinary people, including feelings. The love between Tomoko and the Japanese male teacher was washed away by the torrent of the times, but it became particularly poignant and sincere because of the separation.
Whenever the sound of the contents of the letter appeared, the background music sounded, and the impetuous heart quieted down. Whether a love is long or short, it is always beautiful and pleasurable. When a person falls in love, others may seem foolish, but with the people in love, why not be stupid? To be able to love a person without distraction, to feel the gains and losses in love, to experience the feeling of loving a person at all costs, even if the language is clumsy, you can say the most moving love words, how precious it is to have such an experience! If, when you're old and haven't had such an experience, it's an irreparable regret!
In the film, the content of the letter is presented as a background together with the music, as if the fusion of history and reality, the past cannot be traced, and the various people in reality still live their own lives, chase their dreams to chase, or people, everyone is working hard. This is the truth of the world.
How can I restrain myself from thinking about you
You are a student growing up in the bright southern sun
I am a teacher who crosses the sea from the snowy north
We are so different, why are we so in love with each other
I miss the sun, I miss the hot wind
I still remember how you were provoked by red ants
I know I shouldn't laugh at you
But the way you step on the red ants is beautiful
It's like stepping on a fantasy dance
Angry, intense, and with a flirtatious laugh
Yuko, that's when I fell in love with you
This is one of them, love, a word with too complex meanings, through vicissitudes, and constantly giving new meanings. In the long river of history, it will never fade. It came, silent, overwhelmed, it went, it was also silent, it was strangling. Their love, with the black and white of the times, is more simple and sincere. Sixty years later, the moment the gray-haired grandmother suddenly picked up the letter from the side, I cried. These letters, 60 years ago, were in the hands of the recipients. It is as if time and space have traveled, bringing people back to the confusion and enthusiasm of their youth.
A missed love as a background, reflected in the hearts of contemporary young people, in the face of difficulties, in the face of uncertainty, they become more courageous.
Everyone has had dreams, but years later, how many people are doing what they love, and how many people have achieved their dreams? When asked such a question, I probably just want to raise my glass and touch it hard before I do it!
60 years later, the people of Hengchun Town are still busy every day. Tomoko, a former Japanese model, is assigned to do the reluctant chores of forming a makeshift warm-up orchestra. Because japanese singer Kosuke Naka was going to Hengchun to hold a large-scale concert, at the request of the locals, the original arrangement of the Japanese warm-up orchestra was abolished, and the warm-up orchestra of the local people was abolished. This job is tricky and difficult.
Everyone who participated in the orchestra looked so unreliable and out of tune. But behind them, they were all people who had dreams. Water frog, now a locomotive master, it turns out that he is also a slam dunk master; Rauma, now a traffic policeman, it turns out that he is also a singer who can sing, 80-year-old old postman Mao bo, has been insisting on playing the moon piano, striving to move to the stage, is a national primary school student, is the accompaniment of the choir, Ajia, is the lead singer of the Taipei Orchestra, can compose, can write songs. They all seemed to be doing things that had nothing to do with their dreams, but they all got together on the same stage and performed the most moving movements.
Therefore, the dream must be there, even if it can not be realized in the end, but our enthusiasm for chasing dreams, footsteps, will be our life thicker. Even if the work or career we are currently doing is not what we once wanted, our enthusiasm for life will take us back to our original intentions and find our true selves inside.
The love in the background is beautiful, but missed, regrettable. Shrink back because of cowardice, miss because of the times. In this love, I can't bear to blame either party, because they have all loved so freely and sincerely. And with such a background, the current people have chosen to leave no regrets.
Between Aka and Tomoko, from the initial mutual unpleasantness, conflict, to reconciliation, love, in fact, it is more like two people with similar fates to warm each other in a specific environment. The emotional scene presented in the film is actually somewhat abrupt. Perhaps because time is limited, it is impossible to present more plots. But from this sudden love, we can experience a tacit understanding of finding ourselves and belonging.
On that day, the two people attending the wedding banquet, different tables, but their eyes remained with each other. They carry dissatisfaction, conflict, contradiction, and seem to see through each other.
Tomoko is sad, angry, alone in a foreign land, the work is not smooth, the dream is getting farther and farther away, and the reality is getting worse and worse. However, the boy made himself angry and made himself helpless.
Ajia, looking at the gaze of Tomoko, is equally angry and helpless, all this is not self-inflicted, why should it be counted on his own head? Ajia is also a person who has escaped from the reality blow, how proud he was, at this moment, how lonely he should be!
The drunken Yuko staggered to Aka's door, slammed the door of Aka's house in anger, and lay on the ground and fell asleep. Aja came back to see yuko on the ground, and then saw the smashed door, and at that moment, instead of roaring angrily, he picked up the weak and helpless girl. At that moment, he felt the other side of Tomoko, not strong and hot, but fragile, tired, and lonely. Tomoko complains about why she is being bullied, a girl who works hard away from home. As if pointing directly to Ajia herself, she had also been far away from her hometown, vulnerable and helpless. At that moment, he should have been distressed!
He carried tomoko upstairs and placed him on his bed, two equally frustrated souls blending in the silent air. They had no commitment, no prelude, and so suddenly, physically and mentally, melted together.
Two wandering souls, finally found the home of the soul. When you have the courage to bear and face the uncertainty of the future, you are half successful, then grasp the present and do not let go, you are likely to seize love.
There is no doubt that Aka and Tomoko are still at a loss for the future at first. In the town, the heart is thinking of drifting away. However, under the influence of the simple and enthusiastic residents of Hengchun, Ajia gradually came out of frustration, and Tomoko also saw that everyone was trying hard to be serious. Especially seeing Ajia seriously writing songs, practicing songs, and preparing for the orchestra performance. Changed previous impressions and prejudices. Tomoko went to the airport to buy symbolic gifts for each member of the band, encouraging everyone to stick to their original intentions.
People can have no lofty ambitions, but everyone needs to have something that they hold on to, called faith. With it, we can at least keep the mind from wandering too long and too far, even if we leave our hometown, there is something to look forward to.
Love is magical, some love is like a trickle, little by little into the heart, in the company of the years for a long time. And some loves, such as legends, are only because of a certain look, or a figure, they are deeply trapped in each other's eyes.
The film ends in the photo picked up by the elderly tomoko, this missed love, as if from 60 years ago, across the river of years, trekking mountains and waters, crossing the long bridge of years, and finally came to the other end, connected with another heart.
Aja returned from delivering the mail, hugged Yuko into her arms, and said: Stay, or I will go with you! From that moment on, their wandering hearts finally belonged.
@ Mi Guang Pour sincere The so-called love does not know what to do, always deep, I am at ease, the party is the way home. Don't think about what the future will be, at least for now, you can still grasp it. At the age of courage, bravely chasing love and dreams is a beautiful second!