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The movie "The Life of the Rejected Pine Nuts", also known as "The Strange Adventure", "The Life of the Nasty Pine Nuts", "The Life of the Pine Nuts", "The Tragic Life of the Pine Nuts".
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Japanese writer Soki Yamada. Written and directed by Tetsuya Nakajima and starring Miki Nakatani. The film depicts Matsuko's bumpy and tortuous life from different perspectives.
The film shined at the 30th Japan Academy Awards (the "Oscar" of the Japanese film industry) in 2007, winning three awards for best actress, best editing, and best film score, and was nominated for six awards, including best director and best screenplay. The actress actress, Miki Nakatani, won the best actress at the 1st Asian Film Awards for this film.
(Note: The film has a Douban score of 8.9 points, ranking no.59 in the Douban movie top 250)
Japanese director Tetsuya Nakajima
Tetsuya Nakajima (中島 Tetsuya, born September 2, 1959 in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan) is a film director, advertising director, and screenwriter. His major works include "The Tale of the Next Wife", "The Life of the Rejected Pine Nut", "Pagao and the Magic Picture Book", "Confession", "Longing" and so on.
Tetsu Nakajima is also a regular at the Japan Academy Awards, and several of his works have been nominated for the award and won several awards. He directs a variety of film styles, including song and dance films, musicals, comedies, thrillers and other film styles.
In the film "The Life of the Rejected Pine Nuts", there are two sentences that are most famous:
"Born to be human, I'm sorry."
"The value of a person is not in what you get, but in what you give."
The two sentences are tied to each other and separated from each other, which together shape the protagonist of the film, Kawajiri Matsuko, who can't ask for a desolate life.
Pine nuts alone on the back
The film begins with a music classroom and a chorus, and is on the right track for character development. An elegant and beautiful female teacher, teaching and educating, well-behaved, very glamorous from the outside, this is the first impression that Matsuko gave when she appeared. Then the whole process of stealing money made people have the first question in the movie, which is also the most critical point in the character shaping of "Pine Nuts" - grimace.
The key to character building lies in the strange grimace of the painting style
Starting with a grimace, we get a glimpse into The Inner World of Matsuko Kawajiri.
As the eldest daughter in the family, she did not receive attention and love from her father, which led to two consequences: one was that she was extremely dependent on others in her personality, and strong insecurity. The second is that she subconsciously does not identify with the value of her own existence. This corresponds to her grimace to make her father laugh, but in the end she only exchanged one sentence: "Don't joke." ”
Pine nuts, which seem to be pure and lovely, are actually a person who lacks extreme self-confidence
Matsuko is undoubtedly a patient with dependent personality disorder, let's look at a description of this type of personality on Sogou Encyclopedia:
Dependent personality
"Dependent personalities have an excessive thirst for closeness and belonging, which is compulsive, blind, irrational, and has nothing to do with real feelings. People with dependent personalities would rather give up their personal tastes and outlook on life, as long as they can find a patron and always get the warmth of others to him. This way of dealing with the world by the dependent personality makes him more and more lazy, vulnerable, and lacking autonomy and creativity. As a result of the pursuit of perfection, a person with dependent personality disorder will have more and more feelings of depression, which prevent him from doing something for himself or having any personal hobbies. ”
It is clear, from the first writers, Matsuko was dependent on men and longed for love and closeness. From the perspective of plot setting, she endures the scolding of men, knocks on the door of the original match, can hope for a barber in prison for up to eight years, meets the original student, even if she knows that it will be hell, she is willing to step on it, and after the student is imprisoned, she is willing to wait for him to get out of prison, all of the above plots reflect her dependence from the front. On the contrary, the film uses the combination of giving up her profession for Aaron and becoming a bastard girl to reflect, which strengthens the dependence of the character of Matsuko and highlights the tragedy of her life.
Matsuko's dependent personality is the root cause of the tragedy of his life
"I'm sorry to be human." This sentence left by the writer has influenced Matsuko's life, this sentence is an extremely subjective word, from Matsuko's point of view, what she has seen and experienced is all confirming this sentence. Born as a human being, she could not find her own value.
"The value of a person is not in what you get, but in what you give." This sentence, corresponding to the previous sentence, is extremely objective. This is an exposition of Matsuko's life from the perspective of others. Those who were treated tenderly by her, those who failed to become her home, can understand the value of pine nuts after the passage of time. On the surface, there was no success, and the pine nuts that were rejected by people all their lives actually left an indelible mark in the hearts of others.
The last sentence left by the writer influenced Matsuko's life
Matsuko craves a sense of security and presence, and there are two very clever lines in the film:
"You're back."
"I'm back."
Matsuko has said this to many people and is eager to get an answer, but the expectations are always disappointed. She can't find her true home, simple family life, a sheltered harbor, for her, it is impossible to ask for.
At the end of the film, the trajectory of Matsuko's life is traced from the perspective of God. After countless struggles, losses, pains, and tossing and turning, Matsuko returns to that night of reprimand, which is the beginning of the story and the end of it. After a life of loneliness and desolation, I returned to the original point and finally got the affirmation I wanted at first.
Alive, for what?
In the vast world, the crowds are intertwined and surging and surging and the things desired are surprisingly consistent. Childhood dreams are simple and beautiful, but as they grow up, they can only sadly discover that in the real world, asking for nothing is the norm. Matsuko already understood this, and Ah Sheng was on his way.
So do we.
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