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The husband who did not go home early on a business trip pushed open the door and bumped into his wife fighting with her lover in bed.
It was angrily intruding in, scolding and beating the two;
Or do you quietly close the door and leave, pretending nothing happened?
This large-scale scene appeared in the "Driving My Car" that we are going to talk about today.
The film was not only nominated for the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, but also won the Best Screenplay Award in the main competition section of Cannes.
What is the charm of a story of marital infidelity? ——
"Driving My Car"
Drive My Car
First of all, the film team is very powerful.
The story is based on haruki Murakami's short story of the same name, yes, it is Haruki Murakami, who is quite famous in the international literary world, but accompanies haruki Murakami who runs the Nobel Prize in Literature every year.
Haruki Murakami's works are notoriously difficult to adapt.
Lazy words, imaginative imagination, and deep and long blanks are not friendly to directors who use audiovisual expressions to express stories.
A few years ago, Li Cangdong based on Haruki Murakami's short story "Burning Barn" and combined Faulkner's "Burning Horse Shed" to make a drastic adaptation, shooting the film "Burning", which was nominated for the Palme d'Or in the main competition unit of Cannes.
I believe that many people, even if they do not understand the film, are still fascinated by the dance under the sunset of The Whole Bell Rui.
This film won Liu Yaren a nomination for the Qinglong Award for Film Emperor.
But Haruki Murakami's other well-known novel, "Norwegian Forest", was put on the screen by Vietnamese director Chen Yingxiong.
It is also accompanied by a number of big-name Japanese actors such as Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, and Kikuhara Kishiko.
But it only ended up with a lengthy and ugly evaluation.
Therefore, Haruki Murakami's work, if it is taken well, is a divine work; if it is filmed poorly, the late festival is not guaranteed.
This time, drumming and passing flowers, it was the turn of Ryusuke Hamaguchi, a popular fried chicken in japan's international film scene in recent years.
Prior to this, Hamaguchi Ryusuke has successively handed over excellent works such as "The Spy's Wife", "Happy Hour", "Chance and Imagination", so the new work has aroused everyone's strong expectations.
In the beginning, Iefu, played by Hidetoshi Nishijima, became famous in the eyes of others and was a successful stage actor and theater director.
His wife, Yin (Reika Kirishima), works behind the scenes and is a prize-winning writer and screenwriter.
In the eyes of others, the two have a common language, their appearance is right, and they are a fully loving couple.
Even the process of two applauding for love is full of literary and artistic middle-aged atmosphere:
Whenever the climax, the sound of the text gushing, will narrate the storyline, but when you wake up, you forget,
At this time, relying on the strong memory of Jiafu, the story she remembers is relayed to the sound, so that she can write a text.
At first you thought the sound was a mountain Ruzod who told stories in a thousand and one nights,
Only later did I find out: it turned out that she used her husband as a tape recorder!
In fact, there is an insurmountable gap between the two:
My daughter died of pneumonia nearly two decades ago.
In the face of this hidden pain, the two agreed not to have children again, and Yin also transformed from a popular actor to a screenwriter behind the scenes.
The image of a loving couple was soon shattered by an accident.
Jiafu was invited to go out as a judge, the invitation was temporarily cancelled, and the organizer arranged for Jiafu to stay in a hotel near the airport, and he returned home early because he was worried about his wife.
As soon as the door is opened, it is the scene of the sound of the voice breathing heavily, driving in bed with her lover.
Jiafu quietly left, stayed in the hotel, and pretended to go to the event venue when videotaping with his wife, and nothing seemed to happen.
But Yin wanted to confess to Jiafu, but he used the excuse of going out and returned home, where Yin had died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage.
Forty minutes later, Jiafu appeared in his red car, and the title of the film was slowly played.
It turns out that after the death of the sound, Jiafu will listen to the tape he recorded for the sound in the car, and familiarize himself with his lines over and over again.
Two years later, Jiafu accepted the invitation to direct Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the festival.
When recruiting actors, a male Takatsuki (Shosei Okada) came to audition.
Jiafu recognized at a glance that he was one of Yin's lovers.
In fact, Jiafu has long known that there are many lovers in the sound, and when rehearsing a work, he will engage with the male actors of the crew, and after the work is completed, he will say goodbye to the lover, and then throw himself into the arms of the next work and the next lover.
Kafu left Takatsuki behind and became increasingly familiar with him.
Out of love and longing for the same woman, the two talked about the sound between rehearsals, and Jiafu got a very different version of the story from each other's mouths.
I have always thought that I am careful not to expose the fact that my wife is cheating, but in fact, the other party has always hoped that he can speak directly, hoping that he can really listen to himself.
On the other hand, during the rehearsal of the play, the organizers, out of responsibility to the artist, forced Jiafu to hire a driver.
This taciturn young woman, Tori (Toruko Miura), doesn't speak much, and she doesn't have any burden when Iefu reads her lines in the car.
As Jiafu's voice changes, so does his relationship with Dori—the other person is about the same age as his deceased daughter and a girl with a story.
On the way to drive together, two people who have lost their loved ones are reconciling with the past and healing themselves.
In the snow-white of Hokkaido, Jiafu finally expressed his self-blame and regret in his heart:
I would love to see yin, and if I could see her again, I would yell at her, I would scold her, I would scold her for cheating on me all the time. I also want to apologize to her because I didn't listen, because I wasn't strong enough, I wanted her back, I wanted her to live, I just wanted to talk to her again. I wanted to see her, but it was too late and there was no turning back...
The story of Haruki Murakami, coupled with Chekhov's plays in the film, is nested and the texts are intertwined, presenting the audience with a sad but hopeful work.
Unlike the sad undertone of "Manchester by the Sea", "Driving My Car" adds a little bright color to the sad story, adding redemption to the prison of self-condemnation, allowing the characters to come out of despair.
Just like the closing speech of Sonia at the end of the film, "Uncle Vanya" was released, and it was also the theme that the director wanted to convey:
We have spent a long day and night, and we will patiently bear the test that fate has brought us.
When our last moments come, we will all leave peacefully.
After experiencing extreme sadness and suffering, people always have to live strongly and accept those unknown tests.
Losing, rebuilding, and being true to yourself can get over grief.