"Komori is a small village located in a village in the northeast region, there are no shops here, just to buy necessities, you can go to the center of the village where the official office is located, where there are small supermarkets opened by the agricultural cooperative and several shops, the journey is basically downhill, and the bicycle takes about half an hour ..."
After watching "Little Forest• Spring and Summer" and then looking at the winter and spring chapters, every time the beginning of the movie has such an opening statement.
In the summer and autumn chapter, the reason why the heroine Ichiko hides in the countryside is also revealed in the winter and spring chapter. Because of the scars in the city, the feelings are not smooth, and the heroine who cannot adapt to urban life chooses to hide back to the Little Mori who raised her.
After the snow, the earth was white, as if the sound of all things in heaven and earth had been absorbed by the snow: Ichiko began to make her delicacies.
Although there are not many vegetables to eat in winter, Ichiko still changes the way to eat a variety of foods. For example, this Christmas two-color cake made from memory:
Using red rice and spinach as raw materials, how to spell them into two colors, I also studied and recalled them carefully. The outside is coated with thick cream, cut down with a knife, and inside the snow-white cream shell, wrapped in a red and green cake core, shared with two friends, calm and full of simplicity.
The red beans sown and harvested in spring and summer are picked, dried, selected, and stored, and in the winter, they can make red bean cakes, red bean buns, and red bean cakes.
Watching Ichiko busy quietly on the stove, the quiet light of winter reflecting on her young and white face, at this time she can experience the quiet solitude, sometimes it is a gift from heaven.
One person eats, even if it is just a simple red bean bun, it is necessary to put it on a plate, clasp the chopsticks with both hands, and then say softly: "いただきます." ”
Food does have the power to heal grief.
Sometimes, Ichiko makes bracken pickled in the mountains in the spring into small dishes; in autumn, persimmons are picked from persimmon trees, dried into dried persimmons, and then shredded and mixed with frozen radish slices made in winter. These foods, which have been baptized by the four seasons of Komori, grow in the form of life on Komori's land, and then brought home by the heroine to make a variety of foods by hand.
In the middle, the experience is the most primitive shaping, restoring the meaning of the food itself, and at the same time enabling the people who make the food to get inner comfort and new revelation.
"Winter and Spring" inserts more memories, character relationships, plots that did not occur or have occurred on the basis of "Summer and Autumn". It also extends more feelings of the heroine:
"When I fall somewhere, every time I look back at my previous self, I find that I have fallen in the same place every time. Despite the hard work, I always circled in the same place, wandering until I was back to the original point, which was very disappointing. But the experience is accumulated every time, so whether it is failure or success, it is no longer the origin. Well, it should not be called "circle", but "spiral". From a certain point of view, it may seem like going around in the same place, but in fact, it will deviate a little bit from the previous point or the next point, and if so, it is fine. Perhaps, man himself is a "spiral", going around in the same place, but differently each time, or up or down or horizontally stretching out. The circle I draw is getting bigger and bigger every time, so the spiral is getting bigger every time. ”
Ichiko gradually reaps the rewards of nature during her labor, and her heart is more calm. Life in the big city, which had left her at a loss and busy with everything, was best healed in komori's air and land. She began to understand her mother, reconciled with her, and reconciled with herself.
In winter, sit on the edge of the bed and watch the snow that belongs to you, and taste the food you make yourself. Loneliness, on the contrary, becomes a healing force for the heart.
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