After "Long Holiday", I listed pure love Japanese dramas as my primary goal, and this popular pure love classic and highly recommended "Witch Conditions" became the first place in the list I wanted to see.
As if hearing my heart, the daily film list pushed me this drama.
Although the combination of teachers and students, whether it is age, height, or the social class setting in the play, the combination of Matsushima Noriko and Hideaki Takizawa is really too good, the male and female protagonists are well selected to act well, and with the super theme song and soundtrack, it is the biggest factor why this play is so successful and has become a classic.
I'm not very sure about the repercussions I've received from The Witch's Condition, so much so that I was never able to write this article, and finally met again, and I seemed to be able to try to explain the classics and magic of this Japanese drama with my immature mind, and a one percent similar position.
This Japanese drama challenges themes that are very easy to lose focus and bias - "teacher-student love" and "bitter love".
First of all, teacher-student love has always been a very taboo topic, especially the love affair between female teachers and male students; and the plot of bitter love often drags mud and water, and if you are not careful, it will fall into the popular list. I don't deny that sometimes this drama still has a lot of exaggerated dialogue for the sake of impact, but this does not affect the lightness and brilliance of this Japanese drama, and even has the effect of adding points.
They are deeply, deeply in love with each other.
He released her soul, taught her to face her true self, gave her the courage to insist on her will, so that she could break through everything and no longer care about the world's eyes, and know how to let herself live confidently and fully; she accepted his heart, let him taste happiness and happiness, gave him the courage to face the future, taught him to be able to treat anyone considerately, and find the value of his own survival is to bring happiness to the people he loves;
They influence each other, gradually change, and are also touched by each other's bravery;
They are each other's freedom, their own reason for existence, but their love is not allowed to be blessed, because they are nine years apart, because they are underage, only seventeen years old; and because they are not allowed to be a worldly forbidden love, teacher-student love.
Hirose unknown, a timid and even dignified high school teacher, got by and obeyed the arrangements of her father and fiancé, even if she was depressed and unhappy in her heart, she was powerless to resist, and she did not dare to try to change, and she lived like this every day.
Kurosawa Hikaru, a high school transfer student who sometimes looks like a boy and sometimes looks like a man.
"No matter what Kurosawa provokes, he will not be dropped out of school" This is a big negation for Hikari, making Hikari full of doubts about the future and unable to find his own value. He rebelled against him, even though he knew that he could not escape his mother's control, he still wanted to try to find a little happiness and freedom from it, and his simplicity and bravery deeply affected the unknown. Whenever the unknown begins to cower or even plan to give up.
Hikari's runaway from home, Hikari's withdrawal from school, decided not to rebel for the rest of his life according to his mother's will... One of his decisions will always make the unknown make up his mind and dare to pursue.
For example, the unknown bold confession at the end of the fourth episode directly uses a strong scene and dialogue effect to highlight her depressed, evasive, and constrained mood, and this contrast just makes the audience who integrate into the plot have a shocking, refreshing audiovisual feeling, and at the same time, it can also circle the aura of true love for the shadow of teacher-student love.
Unknown how to fall in love with light? Why does light fall in love with the unknown? So the magic of the screenwriter appeared. Their encounter is not based on the teacher and student opposite, and the beginning of the relationship has a secret belonging to the two people, among which the unknown confusion about marriage and frustration at work, the pressure of family affection given by his mother and the relative exclusion, and the unhappiness in the school, all accelerate the distance between the two.
And I am convinced that the unknown has always sent out a signal for help, and the light has received, it can be said that the frequency of the two is the same, so, beyond reality, the answer they are looking for is indeed on each other.
From the original weakness and timidity, to being able to firmly face all obstacles and tests, becoming an influential person everywhere, and being able to say to the light:
"Freedom is the reason for one's own existence, perhaps the joy of one's own life and the persistence of the will, this is called freedom, and the kingdom of freedom is created by one's own hands."
And the light also began to become soft and considerate, he was so eager to work hard for the people he loved around him, he would say to his mother: "I have never encountered anything I like before, something to study or something to think about in the future."
Although there are many nasty things, but now this feeling is the first time, there is a feeling of wanting to do everything to the best of my ability, and I can bravely face whatever I do, and I can treat anyone with consideration, I will study well, and I will inherit this hospital for my mother to become a doctor. ”
They find themselves because of each other, see the future, the love of the two not only affects each other, and even unties the knots of all the people around them, why is such a pair of men and women in love, the world's eyes are not tolerant of them?
From meeting and falling in love, from separation to reunion, the plot becomes more and more unromantic and more realistic, forcing them to bow their heads.
Perhaps the unknown is aware of the cruelty and ruthlessness of reality, so she insists on giving birth to her child with the Light, because it is a testimony of their love, and this child makes their invisible love into tangible love. The future is unpredictable, and this child has become a reason for the unknown to live instead of light, just as the light can never leave his mother, and his mother will always need light, I think this is why the unknown will give birth to this child even if he sacrifices his life.
The bold show of love will inevitably be followed by overwhelming obstacles and accusations, the unknown and the light are mortal after all, yes.
"We didn't do anything wrong"
But the reality will not be as reasonable as they wish, the strange eyes in the school, the bullying suffered by the family, the ridicule and ridicule between classmates, may not be able to shake their strong love, but the mutual distrust between the lovers has led to the cracks in love, the unknown and the light, especially the light of youth, can only tolerate pure love, so the radical arrangement, love is simply destroyed by the two themselves.
To get rid of the accusations of society, the unknown can only resign, so that she no longer has the identity of a teacher, so she is forced to choose, what is the best for the light? Her position is distressing.
And the reason why I insisted on it was very touching, because they couldn't concede defeat, and even if no one thought that what they were doing was right, he still couldn't give up, because in the same way, if he didn't know how to resign for this matter, he would admit that the love between the two was wrong. Light faces pressure, but he hopes to break free, and unknown faces pressure, but wants to escape, although who says that avoidance is not a kind of courage? But love falls into the mortal world, and the result is fragmentation.
But in the end, the two are in love. Unknown pulls Hikari to find a free country, and runs with Utada's singing to teach people to be heartbroken.
I like the two scenes in the library where the two made love, and finally returned to the library to change the ring from right hand to left hand, from teacher to unknown, and the two finally became husband and wife.
I also like the "ring theory" in this play, the fiancé's ring can not seal the unknown, perhaps when the light knocks off the unknown ring, it is already doomed to everything, and the precious ring is not as good as the toy-like Plato Juggs ring to make the unknown dependent and valued.
Perhaps the subject matter is too controversial, after all, after so many years, such love is still highly discussed, so the final ending will be good and bad, right?
The grief of flight, imprisonment and separation, with several episodes in a row, has spread to the lover himself, who must be redeemed through sacrifice. The unknown can lose everything she has to prove the innocence of true love, even if axiomatic morality cannot be measured, but in fact they cannot escape the gears of social ethics, and if true love cannot be proved, everything can only be judged according to law.
I have no intention of supporting "teacher-student love" or "sister-brother love", but I believe in true love, love can not be compared with actual age, but should be the age of mind, no one can use age as an excuse to criticize the love of others.
"Is it just because I'm in love with a seventeen-year-old that I'm sick?"
Unknown went to prison for the second time, losing the dependence of the heart, the ring, and it seems to predict that she will once again lose the dependence of another heart, the lover.
Why can't I wait another year? If you want to live for a year, why be afraid? But let us not forget that this is just a play, it tries to make us think about whether the universal values of society are justified.
So the audience is pushed into the depths of their own hearts: Can we forgive? If seventeen can't forgive then eighteen can? If the unknown is not a teacher, if it is not a woman, a man, if they are truly in love, if it happens next to us, can we sneer at it?
Hikari chooses to retreat into advance, he thinks that everything is only because he is only seventeen years old, so it is up to him to sacrifice, but unfortunately, these episodes have grown a lot of light, and he does not understand that the unknown has nothing but love with him.
In fact, most of the time they really don't look like lovers, maybe it's difficult to express it, but the old-fashioned beach frolicking, the classic observation car hug, and the light bedside confession, are still happy.
The mother of light mirror aiko complex is puzzling, whether it is the unknown father or mother express the attitude is normal and understandable, but I can not understand the mirror. Does she see her children as a lover?
So like a lover of doting and monitoring, and before anyone, even before the light or the unknown understands her own mind, she can receive strange fluctuations like a radar.
Maybe because he has lost everything, he can no longer leave his beloved son.
As for the final Hirose unknown whether he woke up?
If you ask me, of course, the unknown wakes up, and the light thinks that he is immersed in a dream, so he continues to sleep peacefully.
Then, the camera slowly pulls away, and the handcuffs on the feet of the two people are gone, echoing the picture of the two people being cuffed by chains on their hands and feet in the theme song, does this also imply that the love of the two has crossed the layers of resistance and is no longer separated?
Watching this play all the way down, my mood is getting more and more lost and heavy, there is a feeling of powerlessness to cry, although there is a tragic ending anticipation, but there is a thought in my heart that is getting stronger and stronger, that is, the unknown and the light, you want to be happy, absolutely happy, because love is unreasonable.
Just following the rules, I will not and do not have the courage to change those ethics and morality, to pursue what is unswerving to death.
However, it allowed the self-contained self to experience a thrilling and exciting experience of subverting tradition and deviating from the scriptures.
Maybe everyone wants to try the urge to run away, the thrill of stealing, and the thrill of betrayal. Just quietly give up because I don't know how to face the endgame, because I think that someone else will be hurt because of it.
But what kind of life does someone who has already taken that step have?
How could the unknown light in the distance easily identify his color? How can we say that the happiness of suffering together will not last?
So I deeply believe here that someone loves each other so much, and then quietly turns away. It is also a deep love.
Watching this drama again, it is really full of emotions...