Director: Francois Girard
Actors: Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Miki Nakatani, Hiroji Yakusho
Year: 2007
Originally, I was paying attention to the film in the name of Ryuichi Sakamoto, the master of Japanese film score, piano and strings, sometimes beautiful , sometimes helpless, very suitable for the atmosphere of the movie, with good music, when watching it, you can deeply feel the fate of the protagonist and lament the greatness of love and the selfless dedication of sacrifice.
The East and West culture expressed in the film is not based on "The Pillow Book" Japanese woman Noko promotes calligraphy's anti-establishment, anti-traditional ideas and male chauvinism. It is not a love movie that appreciates the love of a wife, "Silk Love" involves culture The pros and cons of contact: Eastern Ying is the end of the earth in the eyes of Westerners: a mysterious and dangerous hub for the development of silkworms, the hero Herve traveled alone to buy silkworm eggs. In an unknown wilderness, Westerners use shiny silver coins to buy goods. Why should they give in? Because the French businessman Bertorelli introduced the soft and boneless silk, which is different from Western clothes, to the rich. The villages and towns were lifted out of poverty, and the three silk mills hired a large number of local workers to make a living. Westerners made use of oriental silkworms to spin silk, coupled with advanced industrial technology, introduced exotic silk, and benefited all kinds of people. It is not for Dutch merchants to sell arms for profit. Blood is a kind of noble sentiment based on humanities, the embarrassment of speech, the fiddling with gauze, the homesickness and the separation of the beloved wife, what is it?
Compared with the warm sunshine and refreshing fragrance of French towns, Japan's forests and snow are heavily guarded, the civil war has made the Japanese people frown, and the export of silk and the import of firearms are the sources of income. The former is a long-established clothing asset, the latter It is the purchased western advanced killing weapon, the snow white and bright red, benefit the crowd and cultural exchange, the bloody Haoxue who kills the same clan is the fruit of good and evil to use his weapon to relieve one's own poverty and civil strife.
The haze stalks around, the black-haired beauty wrapped in the white air condenses the eyesight, watching the distant ocean birds in a trance, no need for clothes and shoes, the fit of human skin and the warm spring water, the direct and silent communication between nature and the people, foreigners can see Fascinated, the white mist looms over the female body, which is sacred and does not arouse unreasonable thoughts, so words become superfluous, the tea ceremony of turning the pottery teacup conveys the implicit emotion to the guests; the white slippery jade palm swipes the strong arm, Then he took out the bath water soaked in the odor of the French merchant's messenger, dripped it on the man's body, the conversation was in the sealed water vapor, a letter written in beautiful font [Come back, or I shall die.], no need No matter how deep the relationship is, the more earnestly said the confession that the beloved object will not understand. Herve's stay was short, it was impossible to study Japanese in depth, and there were no soldiers and horses in a foreign country. He went to a different place three times, and the situation became more and more dangerous. The tranquility and comfort of his hometown was different from the primitive desolation of the snow in Japan. He traveled through two completely different worlds. , experienced the emptiness of love, and the calligraphy passion of translating the English distress phrases, the vast mysterious oriental culture, superior to the wife of the same voice, he is tired of the ordinary, the beard on his face is full of heart, He Ying's blood is boiling in his heart, and he also sympathizes with the former Ten Soldiers who speak good English.
The husband whose wife feels different, the exotic turmoil in him, and the incense of the dark-haired woman who expresses her love implicitly, such is the man: plain but lasting love will not be cherished, the surprise of Japanese women mixed with nature Hong Yiguang taught him to sigh and sigh. Even though untouchable love is very short, the aftertaste is like a hot tea brewed by a woman, bitter and unforgettable. Therefore, the wife's cry is a roar of betrayal who loves her husband deeply.
A letter with simple words and profound love is worth more than a thousand words. The love is so extreme, like Herve sitting on a bench, looking up at the big tree with a halo surrounded by the sun.
Patrick Chan on March 26, 2008
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