"Wong Kar Wai Movie" is the favorite of many Wenqing.
The so-called "Wong Kar Wai movie" does not specifically refer to the movies made by Wong Kar Wai, but refers to a pair of petty bourgeois movies that are sad and sad for a man and woman who have no worries about food and clothing.
The emotions of these kinds of films are always greater than the story.
People who like it are willing to indulge in the small emotions created by the film to get a sense of self-pity satisfaction, and those who don't like it are also ruthlessly ridiculed: it is really full and there is nothing to do.
To say that the ancestor of Wong Kar-wai's films is really not Wong Kar-wai himself, but Japan's Morita Yoshimitsu, it is only Wong Kar-wai who has carried forward this style of film in the Chinese circle, and we named him.
Today, Pigo will introduce you to a classic work of Morita Yoshimitsu - "After".
"After" can be seen as the Japanese version of "Fancy Years", the two films from the storyline to the actor temperament to the film style are surprisingly consistent, and even the Douban score is 8.6 points.
However, considering that "After" was filmed in 1985 and "Fancy Years" was filmed in 2000, from a time point of view, it is more appropriate to call "Fancy Years" a Chinese version of "After".
"After" is adapted from Natsume Soseki's novel of the same name, starring Yusaku Matsuda and Mikazuko Tengya.
Matsuda Yusaku was one of the most famous Male Stars in Japan in the 1980s, and in 1980 he starred in "Witness" released in the mainland and was well known to us, some people described him as looking like Jacky Cheung, temperament like Liang Chaowei, and Pi Ge thought that he was more masculine than Wu Feige, more melancholy than Liang Chaowei, unfortunately in 1989, the popular male star died of cancer, only 40 years old.
Compared with Maggie Cheung, the female lead actress Mei Hezi won the appearance and lost the temperament.
Maggie Cheung staged a wonderful "cheongsam show" in "Fancy Years", and Miwako came to a "kimono show" in "After That", the two showed the different charms of oriental women, which can be described as a thousand autumns.
Since it is a "Wong Kar Wai movie", the storyline of "After" is naturally relatively simple, which can be summarized in one sentence: I love you, but I will not say it when I die.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Japan was in the Meiji period, and Nagai Mizuyosuke (Yusaku Matsuda), who graduated from Tokyo Imperial University, was a rich man who traveled in the mountains and rivers and looked like a wandering skeleton, but he had a knot in his heart that could not be solved.
It turned out that when he was studying, he and his female classmate Michiyo (Miwako) had a good feeling for each other, but this pair of beautiful men and women were more arrogant, and no one would break through the window paper, which was so yellow.
Later, out of a "revenge" mentality, Daisuke Jun introduced Michiyo to his friend Oka Tokijiro, and Michiyo was also in the same "revenge" psychology and married the boyfriend of his sweetheart.
Two people with too strong personalities in love often can't go together, a decision of the male and female protagonists in this film buried the happiness of three people, Andi Brother Pi was distressed here by a wave of Brother Tokiji Oka, who he recruited, and became the receiver of other people's love, the lyrics sang well: "Obviously it is a movie of three people, but I can never have a name." ”
After Michiyo gets married, Daisuke realizes that he loves each other deeply, but it is too late.
I love you, not because they were young and vigorous in the past, but not because one is inside the walls of marriage, one is outside the walls, and a layer of window paper has become a thick wall.
Here is an interjection, the setting of the single male protagonist and the married female protagonist in "After" is the same as that of "Fancy Years", and it is seriously suspected that Wong Kar-wai borrowed this film when filming.
After marriage, the life of the three generations of children was not happy, she suffered from heart disease during pregnancy, the child in her abdomen unfortunately died, and suddenly depressed; and her husband's career was not smooth, the economy was tight, and the jar was broken under the pressure, lingering in the wind and moon place. The emotional foundation of the husband and wife was not solid, and this son completely existed in name only.
On the other hand, the family is well-off, the brother runs the company, he does not have to work, he hires a maid, he reads books and raises flowers every day, he wants to help his friends and sweethearts, but he is afraid of hurting each other's self-esteem, and he is also in a state of entanglement.
At this point in the story, Oka is kicked out, and Yoshisuke and Miyoko begin a game of "spiritual derailment" that belongs only to the two of them.
There is only one rule of the game: I love you, but I will not say it to the death.
Outside the window, the wind and rain, three generations of sons came to visit Daisuke, the two sat solemnly opposite each other, shallow conversation, the tone was as polite as the first meeting, but the heart was already hot and hot, the more fiery the emotion, the more it could only be unspeakable, and the more mellow this cup of wine brewed with pain was.
The picture flashed back, it was under the paper umbrella of the arch bridge many years ago, he lowered his eyebrows to smell the lilies in her hand, and the rain fell silently and breathlessly, and the silence was thrilling.
Although there are a lot of doubts about the middle class in the original novel, in the process of filming, the director drastically cut off these parts and gathered all the shots in the emotional world of the two people, and the story intention may be damaged, but the film's emotion is more intense than the novel.
The director also boldly uses stop-motion treatment to make the shot, the picture seems to be frozen, coupled with the composition, soundtrack and editing processing, it is the ultimate static beauty. Under the background of this atmosphere, the anger and joy of the two protagonists are all delicate.
The most classic scene in the film is that the three generations of children entered the daisuke's house to drink water and were stopped, and daisuke said that this water cup I used was too dirty, and I will find you a new one.
When Daisuke turned around, the weak Michiyo suddenly made a surprising move, she took the cup used by Daisuke, and pulled a flood of water from the glass vase next to her, it was water contaminated with Daisuke's breath, Michiyo seemed to exert a thunderous momentum, and drank love and hate together with her neck, but after Daisuke returned, she returned to her dignified and weak temperament.
These two people, one restrained and cautiously dedicated, the other sickly twisted to release joy, the pleasure of which completely exceeds the pleasure of lips and teeth grinding, this is a masterpiece that restores aesthetic power.
At the end of the film, Miyoko contracted a vicious disease, and when she died, she came to visit Daisuke, who could not stand the pain of missing and finally chose to confess, some confessions were to blow the trumpet of victory, and Daisuke's confession was to give this bitter love a complete ending.
I love you, but I can't say it when I'm dead.
Daisuke violated the rules of the game, he not only lost love, but also lost life, three generations of children left him with hatred, and his family learned of his feelings, thought he was out of the ordinary, and expelled him from the house.
The name of the movie is "After That", and when you see it here, you may also ask: And then?
Like most stories, then there is no then.
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