——About the movie "Next Stop, Heaven"
2012-01-26 Watching this movie on Saturday night, because I was late and people came to interrupt from time to time, but fortunately this movie is not entirely a drama, The basic plot frame can still be remembered. However, I can't remember the names of some characters. That beautiful heroine is called Zhongli, and the hero she has a crush on is called "Zhongfen" (because it happens to be the middle split).
At the beginning of the film, the camera is located indoors, facing a classical four-door wooden door. In the early morning mist, people enter one after another, and they cannot see their faces. The morning bell of the temple rang slowly and melodiously.
Everyone's memories The
whole play can be divided into seven days of stories. The photography team in the film has a new round of filming tasks every week, but their task is to help the souls who come over this week to choose the most beautiful clips of their lives. Filmed as a movie. During the first three days, the person concerned can recollect and describe to his heart's content, and for the next four days, he will use his own choice as the benchmark, combined with the photographic tape of the person concerned's memories before his death (there is a videotape for the experience of the deceased each year before his death), and select actors for filming. At the end of the seven-day screening, the soul enters heaven with this most beautiful memory. Of course, if the person concerned cannot choose the best memories of his life in these seven days, and cannot let go of some memories in his heart, (if he is not a wicked person, he will not go to hell), he can choose to participate in the work of this soul photography group.
In the first five days of the movie story, it was almost a face-to-face interview with a documentary mode. Everyone reminisced about the best time in their life: a girl recalled the pancakes she shared with her best friend in Disneyland
; The woman took good care of him who was sick. "The process of cooking porridge was meticulous. She washed the rice patiently... After cooking, she put it into a bowl, and blew some of the porridge in the spoon to cool it and fed it to me.
" Swinging on the swing in the bamboo forest, participating in a picnic with my parents, and making a big rice ball, but I also remembered the great earthquake on the night of September 1 of a certain year, and at the same time, accompanied by the spread of horror rumors that Korean expatriates were going to attack the locals, causing some unspeakable horror effects;
The hump -backed grandma always regretted that she passed away in the early winter, so she could only find some ginkgo leaves from the plastic bag, but could not take pictures of the beautiful spring flowers here; Rafting on the sea, the beach is colorful..." "You can't use dreams." Iseko was reluctant to cooperate with the shooting plan, "Is my whole life only for one segment?";
Mr. Watanabe felt that his life seemed mediocre. What is lacking, and even I have never had any special hobbies in my life. I have lived all my life to leave some kind of evidence, but it seems that I have never left any evidence;
a certain Pacific Naval War veteran vividly recalled the time when the war was about to end. Hunger: "Food was extremely scarce at that time, there was no salt, and sweat had no taste of salt. Although banana trees and coconut trees had fruit, but they didn't have the strength to climb so high, everyone had to slowly cut down trees with knives to eat them. Fruit. Later I was captured by the US military. I said to them, I am hungry. They gave me something to eat. I said, I want some rice and salt, and they gave it too. I sprinkled a handful of salt into the rice to eat , it's delicious. Later, I saw that they raised chickens, and I thought to myself, if I eat chicken again, it would be perfect. I think, those soldiers and I may be friends." The
thin mother-in-law recalled that she once had a relationship with The lovers bid farewell in front of the bridge, the man said, I may join the war and never return. When I was a girl, my mother-in-law was very reluctant, but she still held back from crying; and when she was five or six years old, she liked dancing very much and wore red clothes. Her brother loved him very much, and went to Tokyo to buy red dancing shoes for her. Very happy, danced generously to my brother's friends, and sang the song "A little girl in red dancing shoes; a foreigner, take her away.";
A middle-aged employee recalled, "I used to be a worker The children born in the family take the tram to go to school every day. The best impression is that in the hot summer, sitting in the front row near the driver, by the window, a cool breeze blows.";
A flying lover, the memory finally comes one day The dream came true, even though it was a four-seat small passenger plane, the clouds swept across the wings, soft like cotton candy, and flawless;
In the first five days of the film, there was not too much focus on the main characters, the camera was constantly switching between the above characters, no gorgeous shots were used, and only face-to-face interviews were used, and there were no shots of scenes with memories. For the first five days, only Grandma Hunchback, Mr. Watanabe and Iseya did not submit their "homework" on time. Mr. Watanabe checked the 71 cassettes of video tapes over the past 71 years and rambled on. The hunchback grandma, perhaps because her memory will always stay at the age of nine (a serious illness at the age of nine, stagnant brain development?), hardly speaks, just looking forward to the spring flowers.
The members of the film crew chatted privately, and each talked about their earliest memories. The middle-aged member said that the earliest memory was the taste of eating and drinking tea when he was three or four years old. Another person said that it seemed that when he was three or four years old, he sat in a car In the front seat, the lights were flickering everywhere. At that time, I felt that I was invincible and that everything was under my own orders. Zhongfen said that his earliest memory was at his grandmother's house in Akita Mountains, playing snowball fights, and it seemed that it was not so cold. The president said that some people can even recall the scene in their mother's womb, soaked in amniotic fluid, warm and safe. When the president said this, everyone laughed. The president scolded them with a straight face.
After get off work late at night, Miss Nakasato was in her bathroom, soaked her whole body in the bathtub, and buried her head in the water to feel the warmth of this mother's body.
Started to draw out the main characters' entanglements
for Mr. Watanabe's troubles, and the film crew sent Zhongfen to help solve them. The middle part accompany me to watch a movie, Watanabe introduced, this is my wife Kyoko, she is very virtuous. When Watanabe met her for the first time, he was so nervous that he was wiping sweat. Kyoko asked him what his hobbies were. Watanabe said he liked watching movies, but Kyoko kept asking about trendy American movies, but Watanabe was completely unable to answer at the time, only to find out later. Watanabe and Kyoko's dad usually only watch some samurai movies. After getting married, Kyoko prepared the rice and put it on the table. Watanabe just turned his head to read the newspaper on the straw mat while he was picking up the rice, and didn't look at Kyoko at all to communicate. In the middle part: "I never got married until I died. You are at least still married, which
is really enviable."
Watanabe: "I'm very anxious. If I don't make a choice like this, will I cause you trouble."
Fen seems to explain that the reason why he has stayed on the film crew is that he has not made a choice for so many years.
Only later did I learn that both Zhongfen and Watanabe were born in the 1920s and were in their 20s during World War II. It's just that Zhongfen went to the Southeast Asian battlefield in 1943. In 1945, he was injured and transferred back to Tokyo from the Philippines. He still died on May 28, and it was not long before the armistice. Because he was born in the same era, Zhongfen is very considerate of some of Watanabe's concepts.
The film crew is scrambling to arrange various scenes, lighting effects, etc. for the rest of the parties who have already decided on the script. There seems to be some unhappiness and quarrels accumulated in the tired work.
The girl suddenly proposed to change the script and replace the Disney playground scene with a scene of sleeping on her mother's lap. For some unknown reason, Miss Zhongli suddenly lost control of her emotions and left (could it be that she lost her mother since she was a child?). Miss Zhongli visited the bamboo forest of the aunt who liked swinging in bamboo forests when she was a girl. She took some pictures and came back. She was criticized by the middle-aged uncle of the film crew: "How did your parents teach you?" Miss Zhongli retorted: " Uncle, have you taught your daughter well?" The uncle once told the hunchback and silent mother-in-law about his attachment to his younger daughter: "This is a photo of her when she was three years old, and now she is six years old, the reason why I have been staying Here, I don't want to go to the kingdom of heaven, because I want to be able to watch her marry as an adult in the world." Miss Zhongli's words stinged the middle-aged uncle, and everyone broke up unhappily.
Zhongfen chased her out to accompany Zhongli for a walk and sent her back to the dormitory. When she passed the patio, she looked up and saw the moon. The two sighed that the moonlight was really beautiful. But there was that uncle who liked prostitutes hiding behind the wall and eavesdropping. He then visited Miss Nakasato, and said yin and yang: "The moonlight is so beautiful tonight."
Watanabe and Zhongfen reconciled and
Watanabe finally chose a scene of his old age and his wife as the "best memory". At that time, Watanabe was already glorious After retirement, he sat quietly on a bench in the forest with his wife. Although Watanabe was relaxed and happy, he still liked to sit upright, and his wife was still virtuous and gentle.
Wife said: "When shall we go to the movies?"
Watanabe: "Watching movies?"
Wife: "Yes, you once said that you like watching movies."
Watanabe: "Ah, I can't remember anything about me. The time has come. But now that I'm retired, we can go to see one a month."
The wife nodded happily.
Later, Watanabe recalled that the park was not far from the cinema in Ginza, and the couple actually watched the first movie in their lives. Soon after, his wife died suddenly. So this was the last movie they saw.
Finally decided on the script for Watanabe, but Nakasato noticed something was wrong with Nakafumi-kun. "Could it be that you know that Xingzi?" Zhongfen frowned and said, "It's not what you thought." The
filming task finally entered the final stage. The hunchbacked mother-in-law also seemed to have participated. Her plastic bag was filled with pink petals. I don’t know if it was a cut-out prop or a real flower.
Finally, the movies of the various parties can be played. Everyone lined up in an orderly manner. Play ends. Except for Iseya because the script has not been determined, the rest of the parties have entered the kingdom of heaven.
When packing up, Zhongfen found the letter that Watanabe-kun left him:
When you read this letter, I have lost my memory of you. Actually, my wife told me about being in love with you. After your death, Kyoko still visits your grave every year. I can't be jealous of you. But she is a good woman, and I still chose to be with her. ...
After reading the letter, Zhongfen confided to Miss Zhongsato: "Actually, I didn't directly confess to Mr. Watanabe before, not because I was afraid of hurting his feelings, nor was I afraid that I would feel sad when I said it. Kyoko was able to tell her husband. So frank, and her husband can accept her past. Before this letter, I have never been so close to a person."
Zhongfen and Zhongsato then went to the archives to find the video tape of Ms. Kyoko before her death. In the original file, it was also summer, and it was also a bench in the park. At that time, the 19-year-old midpoint was about to go to the battlefield, wearing a white navy uniform, but Kyoko looked like a middle-aged woman. (Slightly puzzling) The two of them have always been shy and silent, just silently accompany them to spend the afternoon under the shade of the summer trees. The later adaptation of the film version is two young boys and girls of the same age.
Nakari is jealous for Kyoko
, Nakari goes to the snow during the day, kicks the snow on the ground desperately, grabs the snow and throws it around. He slipped to the ground several times, and his heart was filled with resentment. The lens keeps moving.
At night, Zhongli looked at the flying snow floating in the patio. This was the place where she and Zhongfen enjoyed the moon together a few days ago.
Nakasato plunged into the bathtub again, seeking some kind of maternal warmth.
Later, Zhongli went to Zhongfen's dormitory, Zhongfen sat up in shock, and the two spoke from a distance.
Zhongli: "You will choose the time with her as your last memory, right?"
Zhongli: "After fifty years, I finally understand that I can be a part of other people's happiness, which is a wonderful discovery. You will find out one day. I will not forget everything here."
Zhongli: "I will not leave here, I will keep you in my heart, forever. I can't stand being forgotten." Zhongli: "Go
here, experience After too many people's partings, I realized..." (I was disturbed at the time, I didn't write down the lines)"
Middle point: "I promise you, I will not forget everything here. "
Zhongfen's own movie
Zhongfen finally made up his mind to make a movie for himself and enter the kingdom of heaven. Zhongfen said to the president: "Yesterday, I sat on the bench of our props, recalling my 22 years of experience, and felt very happy. I am also very happy with my experience working here. "
So, the middle-scoring movie is very simple. One is filmed against him and he is sitting on a bench staring at the camera; the other is the camera turned to face the members of the film crew.
Everyone sends the middle-scoring to the theater and watch this Short film. Before the broadcast, Zhongfen said to Zhongli next to him: "I haven't finished this novel yet, so please help me to finish it? "The broadcast ended quickly, the seats in the middle part were vacant, and the people disappeared.
The new week was about to start, and Zhongli walked through the well again. In broad daylight, he actually saw the bright moon in the sky, thinking it was a trance hallucination, and the bright moon was coming soon. It was removed, and it turned out to be the cover of the patio.
Iseya began to officially join the photography team and was about to start work.
It was early in the morning, four wooden doors, mist, silhouettes of people entering the door, and the bell of the temple.
Zhongli was sitting in the office, reading a lot of things like "Movie Shooting Instructions" to an empty chair. It was very strange, and suddenly there was a knock on the door. Maybe, Zhongli was practicing alone, maybe Zhongli really was facing a soul.
Comments: The first three-quarters of this film seem to have a slightly slower pace, face-to-face interviews, and recalling life scenes, using simple language to express, which requires a solid foundation, so it is easy to think of the tradition of Qing Shao Nayan's "Pillow Grass"— -The descriptions of the life scenes are assembled into a book.
In the later stage, the story of the emotional entanglement between Watanabe-kun and Kyoko and his wife, Zhongfen and Zhongsato occupied the main line, and also interspersed with a middle-aged father's nostalgia for his young daughter.
Fish's biggest emotion for this film is that this film regards the director and photographer as the recorders of the best memories of human life, and can be a part of the happiness of others.
However, I personally think that this film should still be understood in conjunction with the Japanese concept of the kingdom of heaven.
Around January 16, 2013, I finally finished reading "Dolphins after a Rainy Day", and the last one, "Better than a Preface" tells the story of the kingdom of heaven.
The heroine's husband is suspected to have died of karoshi. But the evidence was searched one by one, and it was found that the husband seemed to have a lover half a year before his death. So on the one hand, she missed her husband more, and on the other hand, she felt very resentful - why did she still change her mind after serving so diligently for so many years? Later, a psychic explained to her that her husband's lover was the single mother they shared in a previous life, and their father died early in the previous life. And their husband and wife were siblings in previous lives. We used to promise each other to take care of each other in the next life. In this life, the husband also lost his father early, and in this life, the heroine's son also lost his father very early. In the story, the heroine always feels that her husband seems to live by their side and never be far away. The psychic also explained that according to Japanese tradition, a soul will not go to the kingdom of heaven if he still does not let go of the mortal world. The heroine's husband lost his father when he was young, so he was forced to be independent at a very young age. He was always willing to bear a lot of burdens, but half a year before his death, he accidentally met his mother in the previous life and the lover in this life. He felt very kind and relaxed. rest. However, he always lived in the guilt of his family. So the soul is always inseparable between these two women. After the guidance of the psychic, the heroine finally relieved, and it seems that her husband has also soared.
In contrast to the movie "Next Stop, Kingdom of Heaven", after Zhongfen died in 1945, he did not fly to the kingdom of heaven for 50 years, not because of the war, but because he cared about the woman Kyoko; "Rival in love" has always had a grudge in his heart; the middle-aged father of the photography group has always been unwilling to fly to heaven because of his concern for his young daughter. These can be found with corresponding attachments that keep them in the human world.
The heroine may have suffered the loss of her mother, so when she is in a low mood, she likes to immerse her whole body in the warm bathtub water, as if returning to the mother's womb. She is also unwilling to go to the kingdom of heaven because of her attachment to the male lead, she would rather stay here and "can't stand being forgotten". And it is indeed remembered by the dead, which in many cultures has a near-eternal meaning.
In fact, the movie scene chosen by the male protagonist has two aspects. This bench is the place where he and Kyoko fell in love when they were young, and it is also the place where Kyoko and her husband Watanabe have happy memories in their later years. Frankly, thank Mr. Watanabe for his understanding of Kyoko; but the camera points to this film crew again. Because it was the years of cooperation with this film crew that made him realize that "I finally understand that I can be a part of other people's happiness, which is a wonderful discovery".
The best memories of everyone's life shown in the whole play may have all kinds of simple sensory memories - color, sound, smell, touch, subtle feelings. However, it may also be because this emotion is too strong that it prevents the deceased from going to heaven after death. However, in the eyes of some people, if you can remember a relationship, why not go to heaven? The director himself added his own understanding of the kingdom of heaven as a filmmaker in addition to the traditional Japanese concept of heaven. As the director of the National Library of Argentina would also think, if there is really a paradise, it should be what a library looks like.
Some of my memories
are in the movie. After the first round of the movie was played, some old buildings were even more desolate in the cold wind. Much like the scene in my hometown.
At that time, during the winter vacation of my freshman year in high school, I took photos around my hometown with the Kodak point-and-shoot camera. That year, Kodak was doing activities, sending four or ten rolls of film. In winter, I photograph a lot of withered places. At that time, yangluo had not yet started to develop, many traditional factories and mines had closed down, and I myself often felt the lack of material. Not happy enough.
I do remember that around the third grade of elementary school, the teacher asked to write about the autumn experience. If it was just plagiarizing words like "fruitful fruits", it would be too boring.
My grandma took me to see some secluded fields. In a lotus pond, the lotus leaves began to wither, but a waterfowl flew with its wings. Although it had webbed feet, it was able to grasp the almost vertical stem of the lotus leaf and stood firm, as if many years later in "Crouching Tiger" The elegant knight who fights in the bamboo forest in Hidden Dragon. The leaves moved in the wind, and the waterfowl also swayed with the wind for a time or two. It quacked twice, then fluttered its wings and flew away.
Nowadays, it is difficult for yangluo to find farmland and countryside to relax, and even the river beach where my cousin and I fly kites have all turned into container terminals.
Sunday 27 January 2013 21:03
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