Multiple spaces, multiple identities

Jasen 2022-08-20 22:36:55

Class Notes:

The director chose to shoot in a closed car space, but we felt multiple worlds (the small world in the car, the inner world of the characters, the world outside the car window or the noisy or quiet world). At the same time, because the state of the characters has changed differently, so The content is not monotonous.

interior space

Through the medium of the car window, the director created a flowing off-painting space that functions like a mirror to reflect the interior. In the end, there is only sound and no picture when the car is thrown and the stone is thrown. It is left to our imagination. Substituting the characters present has an immersive effect.

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Ironic class relationship: The heroine chooses to befriend in order to earn tuition to study the subject of sociology, but the old man happens to be a professor and is still in the same university. He represents exactly the upper class and the vested interests, who are exploiting the lower class (the heroine and her boyfriend). The expectation of the heroine is only because she is like his dead wife, daughter, the person in the picture on the wall. He also used a fake "grandfather" role to get along with her boyfriend, and finally confused each other with the fake and the real, and added them layer by layer like a mask.

Status 1: Student, granddaughter, girlfriend, assisted dating girl.

Identity 2: Customer, grandfather, professor.

Identity 3: Boyfriend, auto mechanic.

Identity 4: The old lady at the door and the professor belong to the "enemy" relationship, a literary metaphor.

The director uses a fictional story to create a real feeling, and finally returns to a narrative poetry.

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Extended Reading

Like Someone in Love quotes

  • Takashi: Whatever will be will be.

  • Noriaki: [subtitled version] What do they teach them in there? As if dusty, old, foreign books will open their eyes.