That love is not sad.

Darby 2022-04-20 09:01:59

The first time I watched it, I was at school, and I felt uneasy watching a movie on someone else’s computer. I was always afraid that the master would come back from self-study or suddenly break into the door with a disheveled hair, or grab a copy of a child’s shoes on the bed. So I was very worried about whether I would finish watching this overwhelming Oscar best foreign language film at a more suitable time. As a result, what I didn’t want to happen still happened. I was shocked.
So things like this happened one after another, so this 90-minute movie forced me to watch it for three days, so I was surprised again, although I could still finish it when I watched the second part, but in order to make the ending of the story poetic After watching it, and ready to cry, I watched the last 20 minutes of the scene on the third day, and secretly shed tears in the bedroom, but only wiped it off symbolically, without using a tissue.
Knowing that this film was seen on He Caitou's blog, a very picky radical leftist who can pick bones from eggs is very curious about the evaluation of this film, which makes me very coveted for this film. , and my roommate Erpang also had a clear version of the movie and was about to pick a day to watch it, so there was everything that happened above, but he didn't watch it with me, he was watching Twilight (if I remember correctly if).
After watching the movie, I feel very comfortable. In fact, the movie was shrouded in an embarrassing situation at the beginning, but the director cleverly took out a part of the plot as the beginning of the film, which of course makes people feel incomprehensible Mind, I don't know who is sitting in the car that gradually appeared in the heavy snow, what kind of story will happen, I like snow, maybe it's a unique emotion of northerners, when I see snow, I think of romance, maybe this is Our fixed thinking is the same. In fact, romance is not embodied by snow, but a symbol, which is synonymous with purity. This reminds me naturally of "Love Letter". The protagonist walks indifferently in the snow, which seems to represent a kind of meditation, and this kind of meditation is silent and makes people think, yes, this is how the story begins, and this is how The scene makes people feel inexplicably good, at least the beginning of the story is a pure world, which reminds me of Iwai Shunji's music "Pure World"
I don't know what the transformation from a musician to an mortuary is like. At least I can't see it from Xiao Lin's eyes. I don't see such a loss from his eyes, and such a gap is precisely through him. His friends and wives showed the most prominent one was the bathhouse owner's son. When he learned that he was a musician, he nodded and bowed, typical of little Japanese envy and respect, and when this profession was exposed, he Seeing Xiao Lin's expression as ugly as constipation, and pushing away his wife, children, and children, it seems that he is a heinous sinner.
The highlight of this movie is Meixiang. This woman with a sweet smile is not only soft and sweet, but also considerate. Her dream is to grow old with Xiaolin in that desolate town, and she has nothing else to do. Although she had doubts about Kobayashi's choice for a while, in the end, her sympathetic attributes surpassed her prejudice against the profession of an undertaker. Kobayashi's perseverance moved Meixiang, and her love became as touching and shocking as cherry blossoms.
When Kobayashi finally put the stone that symbolized inheritance on Meixiang's growing belly, I was deeply shocked. The director talked about the seemingly empty father's love in the most inconspicuous corner. , makes people feel mixed feelings, maybe that father's love has always existed, but we misread it, it is our arrogant prejudice, and life goes on, we are delighted to find new life in the garden of love Giving birth, and that love, there is no sorrow.

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Departures quotes

  • Daigo Kobayashi: There are many kinds of coffins.

    Yuriko Kamimura: 50000, 100000, 300000 yen.

    Daigo Kobayashi: They differ by that much?

    Yuriko Kamimura: The left one is plywood, the next one has metal fittings and carvings on both sides. And the most expensive one is solid cypress wood.

    Daigo Kobayashi: Oh, the difference is in material and decoration.

    Yuriko Kamimura: Yes, they all burn the same way.

    Daigo Kobayashi: Same ashes.

    Yuriko Kamimura: The last shopping of your life is done by others.

    Daigo Kobayashi: Kind of ironic.

  • Shokichi Hirata: Salmon?

    Daigo Kobayashi: [Watching the river] Ah, yes. They're right by the rocks... over there.

    Shokichi Hirata: [to the salmons swimming against the stream] Oh! Go for it!

    Daigo Kobayashi: It's kind of sad... to climb only to die. Why work so hard if you're going to die.

    Shokichi Hirata: I'm sure they want to go back... to their birthplace.