People say that their hometown is the last fortress in their lives, and the protagonist Ajia returned to his hometown, Hengchun, after 15 years of frustration in Taipei, and let himself take a long vacation (it can also be said that it is an escape).
Looking at "Cape Seven" again, you will be moved, you should see its ordinariness, all the characters in it are small people, and they are all people who feel as if they will also appear next to them.
Each of them has a past, has their own persistence, and has their own little dreams.
Of course, life is not satisfactory nine times out of ten, this group of frustrated people, for the last little ideal of "a concert of Japanese singers in their hometown, a warm performance".
In the search for people, the incompatibility in training, to the later compromise and effort, and finally the results of singing, it is still good.
Importantly, in the process, they find understanding and tolerance, and even love for each other.
The story of Cape Seven is a clever combination of contemporary and 60 years ago, after the end of World War II, When Japanese teachers in Taiwan were repatriated to Japan and forced to separate from the female students they fell in love with.
It was seven love letters that had been lost, and many years later, they were sent to Hengchun and came to Ah Jia (played by Fan Yichen), who had just returned to his hometown as a postman.
So coincidentally, the name of the hostess in the letter is also called Tomoko.
The modern Tomoko "played by Chie Tanaka" is a girl from Japan, and the film does not specifically explain her past, but at the beginning, we seem to be able to feel her loss and dissatisfaction, a person who left her hometown and worked alone for her career in Taiwan.
Ajia and Yuko, these two frustrated people, under the mediation of time and space, from the mutual dislike between each other, to the later love, perhaps this is the legendary "fate arrangement" and "fate"!
I like a line of dialogue in the love letter in the movie:
"Do you know that the starlight we see now is the light emitted from a planet hundreds of millions of light-years away?"
Wow, the light emitted in hundreds of millions of light years, we are only now seeing, what does the islands of Taiwan and Japan look like in hundreds of millions of light years?
The mountain is still a mountain, the sea is still the sea, but there is no one.
I want to look at the starry sky a few more times, and in this fickle world, I want to look at eternity. ”
We all know that no one can grasp eternity, and the only thing they can do is to love each other well at this moment.
Just like Ajia and Tomoko met each other at this time after many years of wandering outside, perhaps they realized that finding a partner who can walk the end of the world hand in hand is more of a lucky, beautiful, and happy thing than clinging to their own achievements.