Few people don't like snow, right? The white expanse is really clean, and to borrow the Japanese idea of Tuo, snow is also a simple and impermanent thing. On the one hand, it pins on people's pursuit of a streamlined and elegant beauty, on the other hand, its easy to melt and easy to dirty make this beauty fragile and thin.
Because of the unique natural form of snow, artists can often draw inspiration from it, deriving a variety of literary expressions and aesthetic concepts. In Wilde's fairy tale "Little Star Boy", the snow is a white birthday coat in the mouth of a green suzaku and draped after the death of the earth, with a sense of depression and desolation. At the same time, it is also the wedding dress worn by the earth when it is married in the eyes of the dove, and the same snow is wrapped in romantic colors. This shows that snow, as a general scene, has an unusual narrative significance.
In the film, it is the same, the audience relies on their own experience and aesthetic level, under the infiltration of snow, to interpret the other meanings of snow in addition to the background.
In the movie "To Yoon Hee", snow is also a visual symbol that can be interpreted in many ways.
As a unique natural landscape in winter, the snow sprinkled with foreign snow covers the mottled human world, laying a unified purity and elegance for the passing time, complicated past and premature love, covering up the pain that can dissolve the body and mind, but showing a faint coolness in the soothing. The film evolves the beauty of nature into the beauty of humanity, using the dexterity and gentleness of snow to reduce the dust and dry the soul, revealing the aesthetic meaning of the humanitarian spirit.
Snow, at the same time, connects the two heroines Yoon Hee and Chun's world. Light and thick at the same time as the physical attributes of snow, telling the state of mind of the two women, the uncovered people are eager to bury the past, buried deeply, but look forward to having the courage to show themselves.
The story of being born in the snow is romantic and mysterious, and when the snow melts, it is not only sludge and dirty water. Yoon-hee's smile appears in front of the floor-to-ceiling window after the snow melts, and she sits there, completing her resume. In literary symbolism, snow is life, and standing in the ice and snow of a strange country, Yoon Hee comes back to life.
As a film co-produced by Japanese and Korean actors, "Zhi Yunxi" has a quiet temperament common in Japanese movies, and the same-sex love of two women makes the love between them calm and introverted, spanning 20 years of separation and making this love cover a hazy feeling of imminent separation. The snowy world wrapped in silver makeup helps the film to express a strong sense of material sorrow when expressing hidden love.
Things and sorrow, things are the snow that appears as a visual language in the movie, and mourning is Yoon Hee and Chun who miss each other, and it is also we who empathize with the two.
Everything in the world, all kinds of things, whether it is as far as the eye can see, or what the ear hears, or what the body touches, is contained in the heart, tasted, and understood, which is to perceive the "heart of things" and the "heart of things". ------------------
Anything that the senses can touch can cause a vibration in the heart. The scenes blend, nature plucks the strings, and we follow the rhythm of the heart. In the film, snow is the string of our perception of the character image and the temperament of love. It can bring the beauty of delicacy, emptiness and silence, and in this beauty, Yoon Hee-chun has the taste of snow, both as individual personalities and the love that erupts when they become a community. Shifting scenery to emotion, things and sorrow show a trend of blending and harmonizing, and the objects and people in the film have been unified.
The snow-capped otaru is elegant and idyllic in its plainness. Yoon Hee and Chun are separate as separate individuals, both with snow-like characteristics. In the film, as middle-aged women in their 40s, they have not faded the beauty of their youth, under the heavy coat is a light figure, and there are some elegant pursuits of mature women in busy life, such as swallowing smoke, pacing to see the moon on the street, smiling and nodding, and the soft touch of snow hits the heart.
Snow not only helps shape the characters, but also portrays their love. The letters in the film convey the beginning and end of love, and the snow creates an atmosphere of love. When admiring the snow, it is like reading a lyrical prose poem, they quietly fall, silently covering the heavens and the earth into a color, whether it is bare green tendons or sharp cliffs, all wrapped in a gentle blunt feeling. Yoon Hee and pure love are also like this, there is no strong sadness and joy, but there is often a beautiful power.
Yoon-hee sits in the bar and lights a cigarette, and when the waiter asks her if she has seen her friend, she replies that she not only did, but also ate. When Yoon Hee lies, there is no sincere smile on her face, and in the smoke, in a faint sadness, she uses lies instead of expectations to heal the wounds to exude a strong love.
The scene that best reflects their silent power like snow is their encounter. Thoughts of mixed feelings, condensed in the intersecting eyes, no hugs, no holding hands, in a greeting that seems to have the least cathartic strength, love is released.
With the help of snow, the lens creates the beauty of wind and things, and also sets off the beauty of love. People and emotions, like snow, are calm temperaments in the magnificence. The love of the two women is gentle and stable, without showing sharpness and desire, but allowing people to be purified and washed in tenderness.
When snow falls as a single piece, it is thin, and when it falls to the ground, merging with other snowflakes, it is thick again. The physical properties of snow, in addition to being able to switch between flowing water and light solids, are also light and thick.
In the first half of the dual-space narrative, the natural environments of Japan and South Korea are contrasted. On one side was the snow-capped Otaru, and Pure's aunt was always wondering when the snow would melt. On the other hand, in South Korea, Yoon Hee's daughter, New Year, is looking forward to snow.
One who longs for snow without snow, and one who is tired of snow inadvertently symbolizes the different circumstances of the two heroines.
Yoon Hee and Jun met at the age of 20, when Yoon Hee told her parents that she liked girls, her parents sent her to a mental hospital for treatment, and her brother introduced her to a man when she returned to society. Since then, she has bid farewell to true love, lived the life of an ordinary person, and completely imprisoned herself. Later, The New Year asked the father, who had divorced his mother, what was the reason for the separation. Dad replied to her that Yoon Hee would make people feel lonely.
Yes, Yoon-hee lacks hope and love in her eyes, she looks bored at work, and she comes home with a lifeless face. Smoking in the dim light of the roadside was her way out of these oppressive lives, though it was only a short-lived consolation.
There is no snow on the streets of South Korea, and yoon-hee's life is not hidden. Those scars and the confusion and sorrow caused by them, like debris standing on the ground, have been waiting for the cover of snow. Yoon Hee regrets the past and is waiting to forget those painful memories and the "scandal" that was known to his loved ones. A snow can cover everything in the world, and it can also temporarily help Yoon Hee to avoid the scars she can't avoid.
The pure world is full of snow, but what she needs is not to cover up and forget, but to tell and reveal.
As the party who was abandoned in love, pure psychology does not bear remorse and guilt, she is more of a memorable memory. She has always had the habit of writing letters to Yoon Hee to pour out her heart, but those words have not been sent. Until the death of her father, her loneliness and loneliness deepened, prompting her to have a stronger desire to talk. My aunt read the letter by mistake and helped her post it. Pure, who has been "hidden" by past experiences and lacks courage, has won the fate of "seeing" and "being seen" for herself because of her aunt's help.
The letter that leads the story arrives at Yoon Hee's house, where he is seen by The New Year, who is also a helper, and after keenly perceiving his mother's mood and old feelings, New Year invites his mother to embark on Otaru's journey with him in the name of graduation trip. The two spaces are finally connected. Yoon-hee, who has come to the Snow Country, begins to say goodbye to his former life. And the purity that waited in the same place, did not dare to reveal his heart in the snowy burial of memory, also ushered in a turning point in fate.
They walked slowly under the full moon where they represented a reunion, stepping on the path opened up in the snow, saying words like "I haven't seen you for a long time", and at the same time walking towards another life situation. There, Yoon Hee has no sad past, and has the courage to show his heart.
Winter is followed by spring, and under the snow is a life of excitement. The spores wait to grow under the cold, and the melting snow will help them with their desire to move upwards. This is the symbolic power that writers often give to snow in the literary world according to reality.
In "To Yoon Hee", why doesn't snow have this effect? When Yoon Hee can face his loved ones and the past, when Chun can come out from behind the door, the snow has completed its previous role, and it can melt. But the end of the disappearance is not nothingness, but rebirth.
Yoon Hee's daughter is called New Spring, whether it was the screenwriter's intention is unknown, but the name and role of this character fully cater to the meaning of Snow being pinned in literary metaphors. When the new spring comes, the snow is about to melt, which is their mutually exclusive side, and at the same time they are symbiotic, because it is the mother's psychological snow that prompts the new spring to be curious and visit outward, and this snow also makes the new spring grow up and be nourished when facing its own emotional problems. So I think that the new spring is like a personified snow, and the snow is also a materialized new spring.
Snow is the medium that opens up space, and The New Year is the one who connects them in reality. Through the letter, the idea of interpreting her mother was born, and she tried her best to promote the trip to Japan, and arranged the travel place near the pure residence. She conceals her mother's investigation of pure family and daily life with her boyfriend, and arranges a meeting without the knowledge of both protagonists.
Among the adults who have experienced the vicissitudes of the years, she is a new sprout of love that has just sprouted and is still in the age of ignorance, but she has brought vitality and vitality. She is the young leaf that grows on Yoon Hee's dying old tree, summoning the lonely stone that is trapped in the snow in the breeze - Pure.
After the snow melts in reality, it brings a spring day, and after the snow in the mind melts, it triggers the courage to renew. Yoon-hee, who has met Chun, is relieved, and she is honest about her old love and the past that cannot be relieved. After returning home, it also snowed in Korea, but after a short period of cold, it was bright daylight.
Previously, New Year had asked Yoon Hee why he didn't smile, and later, smiling became the most common expression on Yoon Hee's face. And she not only changed her expression, but also said goodbye to her ex-husband and brother. Then, she also began to write letters to Chun, but she didn't know if she would have the courage to send them. I think she can, from the moment she sits in front of the window that's sprinkled with sunlight, from the moment she plans a new job and restarts her life, I know she can.
"To Yoon Hee" is plain and gentle and contains emotional pulses, there is no fierce emotional burst in lesbian love, light and stable like snowflakes fluttering, warm as sunshine and warmth. It is a love poem carved from natural objects, with the delicacy, delicacy and gentleness of snow... Such a story is neither sweet nor dull, like melted snow, moisturizing and silent.