This time, I would like to share an old Japanese movie from 1998, "The Story of April". It is an early work by Shunji Iwai, starring Takako Matsu, an older Japanese jade girl. Friends who are not familiar with the Sun Shadow may ask "Is Shunji Iwai famous?" “
I would not hesitate to return to "For me, yes." ”
I love Iwai's films, his stubbornness in guarding the clean sky of his heart, and the purity and cuteness he presents. If I had to color his work, I think Love Letters would be pure white, Swallowtail Butterfly would be purple, All About Lily Chow would be dark green, and April Story would be transparent.
There is no complicated, ups and downs of the plot, just a story of the crush of a young girl. But in my opinion, "April Story" is more like an essay about spring. In a poetic atmosphere and to the pleasant music, a river called affection is trickling. With a little sadness and nostalgia for the past, feel the cherry blossoms falling in April and the pouring rain touch the body, so that the small memories linger.
Musashino, Musashino, and Tsuki liked it stubbornly for a long time, and at the end of it all seemed to become a spell. The ignorance of youth, the timidity of not daring to come closer, seems to have been symbolized by imagination and memory. Slowly, the silhouettes of these hearts are carefully folded together and piled up into their own little secrets, with no beginning or end.
卯月本 is the Month of April in the Japanese calendar, also known as 卯の花月, meaning "growth", is the sprouting of grass and trees, the awakening of all things, representing endless vitality and development. In this beautiful month, she began to live alone in Tokyo, began to eat her own dinner in the apartment, and began to taste the loneliness of life. But a sudden heavy rain makes happiness come suddenly, there is no mountain roaring tsunami, no affection, only the clumsiness of opening a broken umbrella, and the irrepressible smile.
The aesthetic charm of the East is always wanting to talk and stopping, and I know that you are also like this. The beauty of "April Story" may lie in its transparency. Shunji Iwai spent 67 minutes telling only this extremely simple story, ending before all the stories began to turn around, which is the right benefit, let people reminisce and timeless, and the aftertaste is still there. As the famous Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu said, "A movie wins or loses with its aftertaste."
And this aftertaste, perhaps, if life is only like the first sight, it is the twilight spring flowers and flowers, but in the end, it can only be scattered in a flash. As the movie says at the end: there is no chance in the world, only necessity.