It’s still customary to talk about the director first—it’s Hirokazu Kore-eda, and there are only two works I’ve really seen: “Air Doll” (actually because I’m watching Pei Doona) and “Nobody Knows.” The loneliness of the former is passed on to each other like air, while the latter is the sympathy of the original hope. Both works reveal pain in the gentleness. Compared with "Haijie Diary", I have the feeling that I saw "Tuina" after watching so many works of Lou Ye. It is as warm as the sky is clear, even if the film starts with a funeral and ends with a Funeral, but the breath of small town life is still calm, as if nothing has happened, only the feeling that has just been experienced.
This is a story about four sisters, a story about reconciliation with relatives, hugging with separation, and separation from love.
His father divorced and remarried, and his mother flew away in a rage, leaving Kada Yuki, Katian Kano, and Kada Qianjia, who share the same surname with their mother, to grow up in their grandmother's old house. The three sisters met their half-sister for the first time when they attended their father's funeral. However, the younger sister at the moment was already an orphan, and like the three sisters back then, she had no parents to take care of. The kind and simple nature made the eldest sister make the decision to take in the fourth sister, and the fourth sister, who longed for the warmth of her family, came to the "grandmother's house", which was not related to her by blood, with her longing and yearning for her sisters. There, she felt the lost family affection, experienced her father's past life, "when my father passed away, I could still feel the beauty of things", and this kind of kindness and the ability to feel happiness had already flowed in her blood. Even though the three sisters lived with their father for such a short time, they finally reconciled with their unreliable and irresponsible father, because what radiates from this sister is the kindness inherited from the father.
A simple life story, the whole film shows the tranquility and peace of this seaside town in many details. Just like the title of the film, a short story, a simple day-to-day experience, just like that simple diary, records the bits and pieces of life.
Fortunately, as the eldest, she was burdened with the pressure of raising two younger sisters too early, just like the role of a mother, which also prevented her from falling in love and marrying smoothly. She couldn't forgive her father for abandoning their mother and daughter with his lover, and she couldn't accept her mother's indifference to them. However, her natural kindness and longing for family affection, coupled with her care for her sister, made her know how to stand on the other side's point of view. look at the problem. So when she found out that she was also in the position of a junior, affecting the beloved doctor's family, she gradually understood the difficulties of her parents. She was not the authority. She accepted her and the doctor's decision, and learned to accept her parents' decision, just like Selina's understanding of love and marriage two days ago, even if love can't continue, the love for each other is still there, even if the family has long been lost, but the family Still an unbreakable rope. Saying goodbye to mother again, with more mutual tolerance and understanding, also helps to eliminate some mother’s own guilt, hatred will only make each other more hurt, sending a parting gift to cherish each other is also a better way to say goodbye to the unpleasant past , why not? In the same way, my understanding of my father is the same. In the open woods, I was alone with Xiaoling. It was precisely because I couldn’t bear to miss my father that I hated my father’s abandonment of me so much, because this true love did not want to Admit it, it is time to let go of the pressure after carrying so much pressure. Because of Xiaoling, she has a beautiful connection with her father.
The first heroine of the story should still be Xiaoling. Xiaoling follows her father's surname Asano and lives with her father and stepmother (father's third woman). This kind of life also makes her sensitive by nature, because of the lack of mother's love, She often cares about the impact she has on others, but she is unusually mature and sensible, able to integrate into the new environment normally and freely, and can find her own position in the discussion topics of the three sisters. That pot of plum wine that belonged to my father, that drenched plum rain, and all the affection that I once left behind were all found in the place where my father once lived with my sisters. Xiaoling was left to her three sisters by her father. The last gift, even as the restaurant aunt said, she is the treasure left in this world. What Xiaoling taught us is to experience the simple pleasures of life, which is not so exciting, never makes the blood boil, knows gratitude and ordinaryness, moistens things like a silent experience and exudes the most beautiful feelings.
Although one is the biggest and the other is the smallest, the first thing they think of in life is the suffering of the sisters. Their hearts not only belong to themselves, but also contain other good things. What a family needs is not the integrity of its members, but harmony. A harmonious individual can be integrated into any kind of harmonious environment. You are not complete in terms of social relations, but you have a full inner world, and your tolerance comes from Because of the warmth of motherhood, this temperament itself is equivalent to the warmth brought by home.
The charming and candid Kaano and the energetic and lovely Chika, these little sisters have obvious differences in character and temperament, but their existence also makes the lives of the four sisters full of different colors and flavors, so it is not difficult to find that the life in the film has always been shown around. Color light and a variety of delicacies. The two sisters in the middle are also experiencing their own meaning in life in their respective experiences outward and inward.
The four sisters walk on the beach together at the end of the play. When you are better, the people around you will become better and better. Who I am with is not the ultimate goal, but I want to enjoy life with the person I love, so regardless of the setbacks and beauty in life, enjoying life is the meaning of life. Even the four sisters will have the day when they separate from each other and start their own families. Because of their kindness, they can at least live their lives well and give warmth to the people around them, because they all have the ability to feel happiness. Their lives will continue, and so will yours. I just hope that after watching the movie, you can bring more of that ability to feel happiness, whether you are a woman or a man.
For women's films, especially life films from a female perspective, South Korea can produce "She", and Japan can produce "One Liter of Tears". Among the films that have portrayed ordinary women in China in the past 20 years, the ones that left a deep impression on me were "Cherry" (a silly rural mother), "Life Show" and "Wan Arrows Through the Heart" (two stories that happened in Wuhan, hometown plot). It seems that Chinese women have been suffering for a lifetime, never truly liberated, and constantly struggle in an unconscious state. Even an actress with the same surname as me who is a goddess of literature and art, the works she directed did not show any independent thinking and female appeal, and I couldn't help but scolded the "Woman Marrying the Mountain". Cried. The more successful ones recently are "Xiao Hong" and "Golden Age", but don't forget that Zhang Naiying is also a hard-working woman. Maybe in the future, I can only film the life of Teacher Jin Xing, and there is only "Danish Girl" for reference.
Why are Chinese women who appear in life films always unhappy? I will not do in-depth discussions on social topics here, just from the fact that everyone is keen on the jealousy-style "internal friction" and power struggles, but they do not realize how important it is for Mi Yue to have the right to speak and to create long-term stability in the world. The level of personality growth of the whole Chinese society.
The good thing is that today's Chinese are more and more pursuing spiritual life, but they are still spending a lot of time trying to find their real interests. Compared with the busy travel and health preservation in the early 21st century, today's Chinese people can plan and expand their spiritual level more effectively. Therefore, various social salon activities and more and more brand culture have become new consumption. Motivation, people no longer simply rely on "play" to pass the time, but really use "entertainment" to delight their inner world and make themselves love life more.
Happiness is not an objective existence, so there is no cradle and paradise of happiness. Happiness is to discover the beauty around you with a pure and kind heart, and it comes from self-experience. Therefore, without life experience and perception of life, you will not be able to approach and discover your own happiness.
It is also a joy to experience this movie. Although it is a movie about women's stories, when a man fantasizes about marrying such a woman as his wife, falling in love with Kanai, having a thousand excellent sisters, and giving birth to a daughter like Xiaoling, Such four women, as long as they meet one, their career, achievements, and ambitions are not worth greed for. Some people get happiness from achievement and dedication, some people experience happiness in ordinary life, some people realize happiness in the process of traveling and being alone, every kind of life has its own happiness, one of the charms of movies is not to let us integrate into it, To experience another life? Because to experience and feel others, is also a kind of happiness.
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