In our lives now, we are filled with bustling crowds and colorful colors.
Living in the crowd, have you ever thought of being alone with mountains and rivers, flowers, plants, and trees as friends, and have you ever thought of wearing a straw hat and riding a bicycle on a country road, smelling the flowers and listening to birds.
"Little Forest Winter and Spring" is directed by Japanese director Junichi Mori, who co-wrote the film with the original author Daisuke Igarashi, and for Daisuke Igarashi, who likes to depict nature, "Little Forest" is more like his manga world, where there is a "paradise" in your dreams to help you uncover the hustle and bustle of the world.
The whole film uses food to extract the emotions and memories of the film's characters, which is the finishing touch of the whole film, if there is no food as this introduction, the film may be surprisingly bland, missing not only the rhythm of the film, but also the gaze in front of the screen.
Escaping the hustle and bustle of the girl Ichiko (Ai Hashimoto), it is more like telling the modern people's desire and pursuit of pastoral songs, because the whistle and the gray sky day and night make people depressed and passive, so that closeness to nature has become a kind of luxury and desire in people's hearts.
The food in the film changes with the mood of the heroine Ichiko to decide what to eat, and I ask people who can do this now. Before the age of 20, he struggled to learn, after the age of 25, he was worried about the upcoming marriage, at the age of 30 he had to give everything for the family, and at the age of 40 he might have to fight for his career at the wine table with people.
"Little Forest Winter and Spring" uses the simplest way to tell people about the simplicity of the older generation, there is no happy Christmas in the memory of the city, there is no gorgeous meal, only a simple tri-color cream cake, but this cake is filled with sweet memories. Can you recall the sweetness of the past, a sugar triangle filled with brown sugar, or a steaming sticky bean bag?
Ichiko entertains her good friends with her sweet taste, but it is not the best thing she has ever eaten, and in the depths of her memories there are more delicious natto-flavored sticky rice cakes, and do you have any deep memories of the delicacies, whether it is Grandma's egg cake, or Mom's hand-rolled noodles or a dumpling wrapped by the family.
As she prepared to start making this delicacy, she thought of the beating of the barrel and the mallet, of the slow growth of the rice, and of the story of the world that had changed dramatically with a machine that mixed glutinous rice.
When we use these machines, we do eliminate complicated procedures, but the people and things that were gathered at that time are no longer around, there is no laughter and laughter in the past, and only one person is alone.
Each of us is under more or less pressure alone in reality, and how long have you not called your friends to your home to show off your best dishes and drink with them.
She can use a delicious example to remember the good, why can't we meet our own sunshine?
Sometimes cheap snacks represent not only delicious, but also the memories of many people. Think of the 5 cent honey and 1 cent sugar gourd of that year, although it does not look as beautiful as it looks now, it is extremely delicious.
Telling the story of my experience in the city through small talk with friends seems a bit unbearable. The cost of living in the city is very high, not only to buy rice and noodles, but also to pay monthly water and electricity bills and other living expenses, which seems to be a bit expensive for the city that inherits her mother's door, so she eats ramen and kimchi every day. Later, in order to eat better, she used some pots and pans to plant turnips at home, which seemed to be a good state for her. But there was a "he" in her memories!
From the beginning of the occasional exchange, then dine together. The kind Ichiko began to make a bento to take to the place of work, to share with the little brother, in fact, the Ichiko here should have moved some emotions, but suddenly one day the boy did not appear in a fixed position at a fixed time, and also heard a passage that seemed to be deliberately told to her, it turned out that the boy had a girlfriend, and he did not respect the girl very much, and her memories ended here.
This is also the director's intention, it turns out that not only the food in the film is with the mood of the heroine, but even the plot stops at that moment because of the mood of the heroine.
Whether in the city or in the field, people will be in a bad mood, even the city will be bothered by trivialities, and sometimes they will feel as if what they are doing is superfluous. Ichiko picked up the red beans in her hand, and her mouth was still talking about trouble.
In reality, we are the same, obviously about to finish but find that what we are doing is very troublesome, sulking with ourselves, as a sidekick you may laugh, but who can really get out of it?
Ichiko, who lives alone, seems to have forgotten how to communicate with others, friends are confiding in her, and she can only speak from her own standpoint, friends do not seem to buy Ichiko's words, and also evaluate Ichiko, saying that he has not gotten along well with people and is not qualified to use her own position to evaluate others.
Afterwards, Ichiko found the footprints of a rabbit while walking alone, and seeing these, she found that although she liked it here, she had to say that she was very lonely. Her quarrel with her friends is like snow in the trees, and when the sun shines down, the snow will fall, and it seems that the "snow" in her heart will also dissipate with the sun.
With the last dish of food, the film is about to come to an end, and the two are reconciled because of the food. Food in this film is more like "a bridge" can make communication between people easier, can be used to entertain friends, can also be used to tell the heart, but also can make people forget resentment.
In addition to food, what is more profound about this movie is that each of them is about food, they are like a seed buried in the soil, when it grows, you will find that although it is beautiful, it is also very complicated, and it has long lost its original simplicity.
The forest hut and the lonely heroine, the film repeatedly shows the bird flying alone or the footprints of the rabbit found in the forest are all single shadows, which adds a rare tranquility to the "paradise" of modern people.
In the end, Komori's village committee opened up a fallow field to increase everyone's income, but Qian Dingwan instructed everyone to protect the beautiful scenery of the farmland, which seemed to be incompatible with these uncles and aunts.
Ichiko recalls Komori's past and talks about the future, but she can't get out of it and escape the reality she should face.
Are we also running away from our selves in the city who cannot truly enter the world?
Inako would grow up listening to the footsteps of people
The letter sent by my mother only contained some big truths, but where I was now and who I was living with was vague.
On that day, the snowstorm alternated with the spring sun, which was overwhelming.
The sky was split in two by blue skies and dark clouds, just like me!