Crying Out Love in the Center of the World positive review
2022-02-28 08:02
Most Japanese pure love movies are accustomed to using a lot of flashbacks and long shots, showing the long process of love in human life, the outstanding performance of the film in details, and the use of diverse methods to show it. The director of "Calling for Love in the Center of the World" used a retrospective approach to express the whole story. The actor Sakutaro returned to his hometown in order to find his missing fiancee Ritsuko, but inadvertently opened up various memories of his first love, Aki. The film captures many childhood memories of Sakutaro, and stitches the scenes together to form a dreamy feeling of interlaced time and space. It also shows Sakutaro's story and his inner struggle to all audiences without reservation. Such a simple story with no design, but there is a kind of ordinary moving.
Although the film's extensive use of long shots may make many viewers who are used to fast-paced advancement tiresome, it does a good job of telling a youthful and moving love story, which is also in line with the film's "retrospecting of the soul of love". position. The advancement of several major details in the film makes the whole story show a touch of sadness. The exchange of recording diary between Sakutaro and Aki is the core detail design of the film. The film changed the diary to a recording, which is more in line with the art of the film's lens expression; during Aki's hospitalization, in order to leave her memories, Sakutaro took her there. In Shige's photo studio, the two took wedding photos, setting a dramatic climax for Sakutaro's next large flashback.
In addition, the film also has novel designs in some figurative performances
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