He likes to buy "Smiling Red Bull" cheese, which is on the top row of the shelf. Standing on tiptoe, Filibel erected the round ones sideways one by one, facing outwards, and placed them neatly. Just like a supermarket worker would do. Then I took one myself and was ready to go. Suddenly, he froze again and thought for a while, then turned around and quickly changed to another.
Philibert, who was stuttering and shy, read a lot but couldn't teach, sold postcards next to the museum, wore a red suit with a cane and went to the girl's house in the upstairs grocery room for a picnic.
He's an aristocrat actually, and he'll be annoyed if he breaks the family plate. Every Christmas, he goes back to join his family, thanking God before the fine food and hoping to give bread to the poor.
He's an aristocrat, and he's focused and patiently sorting the "Smiling Red Bull" cheese on the shelves, just like a supermarket worker would do.
The details of the director's arrangement made me linger. This kind of gentleness without utilitarianism and without seeking purpose is less in ourselves and around us.
Moomin, the name is as sunny as the blue sky. Yoshifumi Nakamura used it to refer to the large fireplace in Asplund's summer house.
You know how lovely that big fireplace is. Probably only a gentle architect like Nakamura would come up with the name of such a character in Finnish fairy tales - "Moomin" to call it. They are all white and large, with gentle body curves. Yes, think about a big white fireplace in your house that looks like a large, tame animal. It squatted at the door of the living room, and like all the furniture designs in the room, it was full of fairy tales and happy expressions.
Only in the depths of Scandinavia, where the so-called modern architectural design cannot reach, can there be such a humorous tenderness that does not conform to straight lines and rationality.
Somehow, in my mind, Philibel's pale handsome and slightly slack face fades into big white Moomin, and Asplund's round white slippery for his own summer cottage. The large sliding fireplaces all overlapped.
Oh, call it the gentle Moomin. Why can't we have more gentle Moomins?
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