After watching the movie, I found that this is actually a story of XXOO that describes the chaos of young people in the period of hormonal development. At first, I thought that Kiyuki, played by Kengo Takara, committed suicide because he fell in love with Watanabe, played by Kenichi Matsuyama. Watanabe loves Naoko, Naoko loves Kiyuki, the childhood sweetheart, and Kiyuki falls in love with Watanabe. Of course, this is me being rotten.
The answer given in the film seems to be even more surprising. Because Kiyuki couldn't let Naoko get wet, they couldn't have sex, Naoko revealed to Watanabe that she could only solve her physical problems with her hands or mouth. Could this be the reason for Kiyuki's suicide? It's not stated in the movie. But if Kiyuki didn't want to have sex with Watanabe, then he must have committed suicide because of his guilt that he couldn't let Naoko get the right to have sex and felt that he was incompetent. What he didn't do, Watanabe did. Watanabe has always had a crush on Naoko, and on Naoko's 20th birthday, they did it and it worked, but only once. Later, Naoko suffered from schizophrenia. Perhaps, this has something to do with her finding out that she couldn't have sex with her childhood sweetheart, Kiyuki, because she couldn't get wet underneath, but she could do it with Watanabe-kun, who she didn't love so much at first; she felt panic to some extent. She may think that she is a lascivious and divisive woman from the bottom of her heart, a man she loves psychologically, but has no physical response to him; and a man she doesn't love very much, but has a physical response to him. Also, she felt guilty about Mu Yue's suicide.
Of course, after Naoko got sick, she and Watanabe didn't get wet anymore. Medically speaking, this is related to her own excessive mental stress. But she was horrified to think that she would never be able to enjoy the right to have sex in her life; she couldn't get wet with the man she loved, or with the man she knew and loved her, but she didn't love much at first but fell in love later. . As a woman with normal needs, what should she do? How can I continue to find true love? What if she did it with all the men she fell in love with and couldn't get wet underneath? So she lost hope in life and committed suicide.
As for Watanabe-kun, he wandered among several women. Naoko for a while, Midoriko for a while, and the suave Nagasawa-kun who slept with other unfamiliar women in the middle; near the end of the movie, Naoko's patient was also slept with, Ms. Reiko who seemed to be his aunt.
The Japanese are very strange. They are physically and psychologically obsessed with certain things. They are slender and sensitive. However, they seem to be very open in terms of sex, and they can be extreme and even morbid. Before the screening of the film, the main creators, including director Chen Yingying, starring Kenichi Matsuyama and Lin Shaohua, the Chinese translator of the original novel, all went to Shanghai Cinema. Lin Shaohua revealed a piece of information, why Haruki Murakami did not invite a Japanese director to shoot his novel, but hired a French-Vietnamese director. Because he said that things shot in this way will have a sense of distance, and the characteristic of his novels is the sense of distance. I think it should be added, it will be more "real". When the Japanese photograph their own things, they sometimes involuntarily embellish them, but Chen Yingxiong's photographs are very "realistic". Young people's love is such a mess. Fortunately, they are still young and can keep making mistakes and correcting them. This explains that Watanabe Jun just finished having sex with Ms. Reiko, who can be his aunt, and then called Midori and said: I hope I can start again, I love you. Not long ago, because of Naoko's death, he went to the beach to cry in a daze. Sometimes, some people say that "love" is as simple as eating and farting, like a natural physiological response, without the need for thought. It's nice to be young!
I heard that the film will be released in China in August. I really doubt how it can pass the electric review. The footage is beautiful and clean. Of course, it's not beautiful, because the photographer is Li Pingbin, a famous Taiwanese photographer who once collaborated with Wong Kar-wai in the movie "In the Mood for Love". The characters and pictures are all very elegantly shot, except for one scene before the end of the movie, when Watanabe-kun, played by Kenichi Matsuyama, was crying at the seaside when Naoko committed suicide, the dripping saliva floated with the sea breeze, and it was about to be stained with his coat. Yes, it looks straight to the point. Why does he cry so ugly, can't he just drop a few tears beautifully? In fact, the "dirty" is the subtitles. What kind of "masturbation", "erecture", "it will be uncomfortable if it's hard, I'll help you get it out with your hands", "I haven't done it for 7 years, and the bottom is about to close up", "Watanabe-kun's bottom is very big, I can't put it in", and Midori immediately said to Watanabe after her father died, "Want to watch a pornographic movie together? Watch the most disgusting"...
Japanese love movies are sometimes really hurtful!
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