Even if there is no rain, I will stay here

Dorian 2022-04-21 09:03:01


A friend talked about the male teacher who taught Chinese he had a crush on in high school. Smoking, although slightly bald, but humorous and talkative, is "woke up at 4:00 in the morning to find the flowers blooming on my balcony, patted my young wife and asked 'woke up at 4:00 in the morning and found that the flowers were not sleeping' came from who did it" such a man.

Young girls are more or less poked in the hearts of girls by mature men for some reason. If this happened 5 or 6 years earlier, I would probably have been heartbroken. The same is true for teenagers, those women who may not be beautiful enough but mature and charming, for them "speaking of the secrets of the whole world". It is not uncommon for adolescent boys to have a longing for and infatuation with older women, many of which are hormone-soaked blood, impulsiveness, and even eroticism. Regarding "The Court of Words", from this point of view, Makoto Shinkai has made a fresh interpretation of this obscure and ambiguous emotion with his own techniques:
a pavilion intertwined with light and shadow, a 15-year-old boy and a 27-year-old woman meet . raindrop. tree shadow. water mist. Flowing clouds. flying birds. short song. halo. New green leaves and shelled cicadas. Every detail is just right.
Whether the corners of your clothes are soaked by a soaked umbrella, the smell of camphor on your suits, the body temperature of other people, the turbid air-conditioning, the sound of subway machinery, the road to travel alone. The long road in the park, or the breeze that brings the touch of the sky, filters out the messy moods and thoughts before the encounter. In the pavilion that stands like fate, the rain is a long foreshadowing:

faint thunder and
hazy sky
, but hope for wind and rain Come
and keep you here.

Compared with the previous works, the 46-minute time is propped up by a thin story, but the picture is more attentive (I really like the picture of the branches and leaves tapping on the water surface), the music and the light are the same The perfect combination of rain, showers and torrential rain, and the hints of multiple details to the identity of the teacher - I didn't discover them until the second time. There is no doubt that Xin Haicheng has always been not only telling a story (…), but more of using small things to express a kind of emotion: the thoughts of "Voice of the Stars", the agreement of "Yunbi", here we are Probably the secret throbbing and the courage to take a step.

But the so-called freshness is not enough, youth is not pure and unsullied. The setting of the male protagonist's foot control (?) has (not) a bit of an ambiguous erotic feeling. For the foot-control boy, holding the jade feet of the person he longed for in his hands may be more than the last hug. Whether it is the exposed neck or the looming ankles of the skirt, this kind of oriental sexiness and eroticism make the young man's mind colorful. The scene of measuring the size in the pavilion is a further expression of the relationship between the two, which is beautiful and fragrant under the background of light and shadow. The rain falls like a heartbeat, and the eye waves also flow, all hidden in the rained leaves and rainbows.

Music is another protagonist in Makoto Shinkai's works. Different from "one more time, one more chance", which fits so well in "Second 5" that the last paragraph becomes a super-long mv, the piano that suddenly sounds at the climax makes the rain curtain behind the boy the most touching. background. Xue Ye, who finally took the first step, can start running even without shoes. The layered music made me almost cry (but at this time LeTV was stuck...the tears were held back) I lost my sense of taste and couldn't move. The female teacher and the teenager who is obsessed with shoemaking and campus life, hug each other tightly in this adapted old song, and finally are no longer "alone".
What will happen in the end, just like the shoes that are finally made but no one can give away, the important thing is to sing towards her "heart":
行かないで行かないでそう言うよ.

It's great to meet you.

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Extended Reading
  • Arielle 2022-03-29 09:01:06

    It's still the brother Cheng who was broken in love because of the situation and distance, and the brother Cheng who longed for mature women, but he has more foot control attributes, and without Tianmen, I really feel that there is something missing~ Xin Haicheng, as always, can only write prose, not writing Novels, only lyrical but not narrative, 45-minute simple stories are clumsy and overwhelmed ~ but human beings can no longer stop his pictures and some overused 360-degree rotation ~ Besides, the coriander sister is unexpectedly quite suitable><

  • Beth 2022-03-29 09:01:06

    Entering the plum, there is no sense of disobedience in an upcoming film festival. Meet in the rainy day, the rainy season will not come again. Long paragraphs of narration, the park is the whole world.

The Garden of Words quotes

  • Yukari Yukino: I'm twenty-seven, but I don't feel any smarter than I did twelve years ago.

  • Yukari Yukino: I've always been here, stuck in the same place