Hiroko
"Love Letter" is a Japanese film, after its premiere in Japan in 1995, it caused an unprecedented sensation in the world, I did not know about this movie before, and recently the domestic theater re-screened "Love Letter", I also came to see. That was a wonderful two hours.
The first act is a beautiful silhouette. Slightly upturned nose, long eyelashes, white jade flawless skin, impeccable curvature, it was the face of a young woman, the wind whispering softly, and the snowflakes floating on her short dark hair, her face. She opened her eyes, stood up, slapped the snowflakes on her body, and staggered forward, first walking in a large white snow. The camera is elongated, the snow city under the mountain rises slowly, accompanied by the quiet piano sound, and the girl becomes a black dot in the picture, moving from the middle to the side, and then running to the snow country under the mountain.
Such a beautiful opening. Sad, beautiful, this is also the tone of this movie, the pure snow picture reminds me of Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country", but this is a more warm and sad movie than that.
Boy and Woman Akira Fujii
At first, the faces of the two heroines so similar made me a little confused, but such a small doubt also became a small hook, attracting me to look all the way. Hiroko's letter to the deceased Fujii tree actually received a reply, Hiroko and another Fujii tree are so similar, too many coincidences, how can such a small probability event occur in a concentrated manner? I discounted the logic of the movie. However, as the plot slowly unfolds, another love story of the deceased Fujii tree surfaces, and these coincidences become reasonable again.
Apparently, Shunji Iwai is a very storytelling director. He understands the beauty of white space and roundabouts. On several occasions, Hiroko and the female Fujii almost met, but they passed by. For the first time, Hiroko and Akiba sat in the taxi that Fujii had just gotten off, and the taxi driver said, strangely, this lady and the lady who had just gotten off the car seemed to be. This is also the first time that a film has directly pointed out this fact. The second time was when the female Fujii tree rode her bicycle through the autumn leaves, past Hiroko, Hiroko looked back, and Fujii tree looked at each other from a distance, Fujii tree seemed to see her, but the crowd around her fluctuated, and she quickly blended into the crowd. The two heroines are destined to communicate only by means of correspondence, and they also have the title again and again: love letters. Love letter, is Hiroko's letter to the deceased Fujii tree, but also to the female Fujii tree, she used this way to recall the lover's water-like years, and it is precisely in the process of her recollection, the female Fujii tree little by little found the deceased Fujii tree hidden in the heart of the crush, until finally, she found the answer from the sketch behind the "Remembrance of the Water Age" library card, and this answer can not be told to Hiroko.
Man Fujii Akira
In fact, Hiroko has been asking for this answer, she wrote a letter to Fujii Tree in the Heavenly Kingdom, although she has a deep affection for him, but at the same time, vaguely, she feels that the deceased Fujii Tree has reservations about her, why, she is not very clear, but through correspondence with the female Fujii Tree, she slowly found the answer, although it is not the exact answer. This is the director's cleverness, and in the end, the female Fujii tree did not send the letter, which is her goodwill and the goodwill of human nature. This kindness runs throughout the film. For example, the girl who secretly likes autumn leaves, blessings to Hiroko, to autumn leaves. For example, the friend who stayed in the mountain hut after the male Fujii tree disaster was only to remind the climbers to pay attention to various safety, such as the grandfather who carried fujii tree to the hospital, such as the teacher who remembered the student's student number, and the little girl who ran to Fujii tree's house to give her portrait. Like those little people, kind, simple, even a little clumsy.
I also like the director's little witty, death, is a sad topic, but those witty little details make death less gray, just like at fujii tree's funeral third anniversary party, Fujii tree mother said that her husband is just looking for a reason to drink, and the day that the female Fujii tree father died, the male Fujii tree found her and gave her the book containing her portrait, and the female Fujii tree smiled at him. In addition, the cherry blossoms mentioned from time to time in the movie may also be in line with the beauty of Japanese culture. The director also knows the use of rendering, and understands the beauty of the rotation. There is a scene where Hiroko shouts at Oyama, "How are you?" "I'm fine!" Fujii Shu, a female woman who corresponds to a high fever, says the same thing to the boy in her memory, as if it constitutes a mirror image and echo of the two, as if the two are already related.
A large part of the film is from the perspective of the female Fujii tree to recall the male Fujii tree, the young teenager in the memory is slowly presented, the memory is the driving force to promote the plot of the movie, and many times it is also the driving force to push our lives forward, as Iwai Shunji himself said: "Memory is a major driving force that pushes us now." The average person thinks that the past is the past, the present is now, and the two have nothing to do with each other. However, at a certain time, when recalling the past events, it is natural to find some relationship between the past and the present, which in turn affects the present self. "We look for the past in our memories, and we look for the future in our memories. The memory also echoes the copy of "Reminiscences Like Water Years" that the male Fujii tree finally saw the female Fujii tree took. The love that may occur between two people with the same name and surname finally does not become a reality, but it is excavated after many years of snow hiding through two people with similar faces, there are misses, there are regrets, there are accidents, and there are inevitable. At the same time, the two heroines travel through time and space through memory sharing, transcending the romance of the present world, like an Impressionist painting, which shows the director's artistic ingenuity and depth of thinking. How a person should reconcile with the past, how to get out of pain, how to let go, how to have good intentions, how to interpret life and death, the film has touched. Although the plot is simple, the expression is complex and humorous, the picture is beautiful and idyllic, this multi-level and multi-dimensional expression makes this movie have a richer connotation, and also makes the film stand out from the crowd and become a classic that transcends the love of youth.
This is almost a perfect work, no wonder after so many years, it will be re-screened in theaters, Douban is also a high score of 8.9. If there is some regret in the movie, it is that Hiroko's performance can be more natural. In addition, there is a small blank in the film that I have not found the answer to, that is, the song that Fujii tree fell in the valley and has been singing, Matsuda Seiko's "Green Coral Reef", my love has gone with the south wind, why this song? Is that a song that Fujii likes?
Compared with "Norwegian Forest", the same is the emotional entanglement of two female protagonists and a male protagonist, the same Japanese film, but I prefer this one, I feel that this one is more fresh, natural, innocent, moving, I feel that such a deep feeling in the heart is more precious. Another movie I like, "Letter from a Strange Woman", is also about a crush story, the living can die, the dead can live. And my first novel, "Capricorn Love", is also the theme of crush, love is in the heart, and it will always be only in the heart. The crush is innocent and sad, and the love does not know what to do, and it goes deep.
After watching the movie, the feeling of love and pity surged into the heart, and it turned out that the person you loved did not love you as deeply as you did. And what also touched me was the forbearance and silence of love, it turned out that some love had been hidden deep in my heart, so deep, so tactful. It turns out that the love that has been buried deep in time is still so shining and so gentle when it is finally excavated.
Erxiang