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for the first time after reading "Millennium Actress," Barbara usable word to describe the shock. Before this, I did not expect that the skill and depth of animated films could reach such a high level. The director's superb narrative technique makes the originally dull and even repeated plots appear tortuous and ups and downs. The heroine is a smash hit actor, the director chose her to star in seven films to cleverly link the heroine's life in pursuit of love. At the same time, with the help of the movie plot in the movie, the theme of the movie is continuously rendered and strengthened. Seek, miss; seek again, miss again, and so on. Pursuing like a demon, traversing thousands of years in the play, half of his life has passed in a hurry in reality. The setting of the play-in-the-play greatly expands the narrative space of the entire film. The story background of the film began with the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. It focuses on the Japanese society that has been difficult to recover from World War II and the postwar period. It can be said to be extremely real, and the protagonist The ancient beauties, the temptation and curse of ghosts, and the adventures of Kyoto in the movie starring in the film are extremely imaginary, true and false, false and true, the heroine's almost crazy and confused life spreads out naturally, and no one can doubt it. , Only full of admiration and admiration is left, which is a typical Eastern wisdom.
Even if you only regard "Millennium Actress" as a romance film, it is a superb work. Jin Min has no intention of exploring the causes of love, and even more has no intention of clinging to the results of love. With him, love is a journey of quest, once it starts, it will not end. Thinking of the sentence in "The Peony Pavilion", "Flowers and grasses are loved by people, life and death follow one's wishes, and no one will complain." Tang Xianzu's supreme love can make people go from life to death, from death to life, Jin Min The supreme love in the heart can make people obsessed with regrets, willing to spend their whole life to follow. Even if it is a curse of bad faith, you must fight with all your strength. Because of the power of love, the weak little girl will never regret once it is recognized.
Love begins in the snowy winter, and the world is pure, even though it is a sinful age. I was hit unexpectedly once, a strange hand stretched out to me, and I looked at each other for a few seconds, and the fragrant love sprouted in the bitter cold in an instant, everything was only a moment, but it affected a whole life. The story mode is not a novelty. It is not uncommon to see the true feelings of the distressed son and the sentimental lady, but this does not prevent the story from being moving. A dark warehouse, the fourteen moon outside the humble window, the unfinished snowy fields on the canvas, a dialogue that has nothing to do with Fengyue, and a verbal agreement, thus bringing Chiyoko into another world—a world with love.
Jin Min uses many profound images in the film, and the fourteenth moon is one of the most meaningful. "Full Moon," Chiyoko shouted to the moon outside the window with a youthful smile. "Tomorrow is the full moon, but I prefer the current moon. When the moon is full, it will start to lose money. In another half month, until tomorrow, there is still hope," the unknown painter told Chiyoko. The fourteenth moon looks no different from the fifteenth moon, the same perfection. Beautiful and moving, people yearn for. However, after all, it was only fourteen moons, and after all, there were vacancies that were not filled. This is the first meaning. Chiyoko's love is like the fourteen moon, beautiful but beautiful, but it will always be missing a corner. So I can only miss it time and time again, yelling "Wait, please wait" again and again. I can only watch his thin back disappear behind the cold iron gate. Knock and knock, knock and knock, the door of destiny is closed tightly, isolating Chiyoko and love at both ends of the door forever. The fourteenth moon is a perfect phantom, deceiving Chiyoko, making her dream of a little girl, long drunk and unwilling to wake up. Such love is sad. "I love him so much and I am willing to follow him to the ends of the world, but I can't even remember his appearance." The aging Chiyoko hid his face and wept. Lovers with only one side, the pure white and tranquil Xueye, will not diminish the brilliance in the years, the poor beauty is easy to grow old, and the whiteness of the temples will happen!
The fourteenth moon is like an evil spirit in a perfect coat, tempting Chiyoko to never leave it and follow it all his life. However, does the fourteenth moon stop here? No, not at all. The fourteenth moon is also a kind god. "Until tomorrow, there is hope." The fourteenth moon comforts us who are living in today's incompleteness with hope. In any case, tomorrow will be complete. So, please rest assured to pursue it, please boldly pursue it, even if it takes a lifetime. The hope in the painter's heart and Chiyoko's hope are combined, and Chiyoko has only lived for the hope of love. "I will not change, every day, I will only love him more and more." This is Chiyoko's declaration of love. She said so and acted like this. What is the military police, what is the disaster of prison, what is the fear of death, what is the long journey, what is the millennium, as long as there is hope. "One day, he will see a movie starring me", "He is still alive, I know", "I must find you" Chiyoko has immortal hope in his heart. "Hope is a good thing", because of this beautiful and pure hope, Chiyoko's life is painted with a never-fading brilliance. She is no longer an ordinary little girl, no longer a vulgar living in the worldly vulgar laws; because of this hope, she has eternal passion and youth, (as Yong Zi pointed out, "Keep chasing that man let You stay young forever") The beauty blooms on the screen and is loved by countless people; because of this hope, her life will be more exciting than the movie, and it will be moved. Life is incomplete, and so is love, but it doesn't matter, we still have hope. What light in life is better than hope? .
Love is a good enough coat, coupled with Jin Min's brilliant picture and clever lens switching, enough to make the film radiant. But Jin Min has a higher pursuit. Stripping off the skin of love, "Millennium Actress" tells a story about pursuit. Love, ideals, beliefs, or fame, money, or rights, regardless of whether the goal is abstract righteousness or concrete desire, the truth of life is the pursuit, and the truth of mankind is the pursuit. The road is long and long, and I will search up and down", this is Qu Zi's cry a thousand years ago, "how beautiful everything is, please stop for a while", this is the call of Faust, who has been pursuing all his life. Let's see. This film can't help but think of the Western masterpiece "Faust".
Dr. Faust had spent his whole life struggling, and found himself old and decayed, desperate to commit suicide. Under the temptation of the devil Fichester, he signed a contract with the devil and gave his soul to the devil. The devil promised to take Dr. Faust to travel around, so that the old Faust could rejuvenate and embark on a new pursuit. . Dr. Faust, tired of learning, began a new pursuit. Politics, love, classical beauty, and ideal human society, Faust has ignited new hopes of pursuit again and again, and returned to disillusionment again and again. This is a trick of the devil, and it is also his own responsibility for his actions. A hundred years later, when he exhausted his life and heard the trumpets of people's labor, he was convinced that he had found what he had been pursuing all his life. He couldn't help saying: "You are so beautiful, please stay for a while", in accordance with the contract with the devil Faust fell to the ground and died after speaking these words, but the soul was led to heaven by angels.
After careful consideration, the plot of the Millennium Actress is very similar. The temptation and curse of ghosts, the ups and downs of a lifetime, that is, Chiyoko's call "Please wait a while" and Faust's phrase "Please stay for a while" are also strikingly similar. Of course, Jin Min's story also has its own unique and profound meaning. What Chiyoko pursues is far more than love. "I swear I will find him." The cold-eyed ridicule of others and the obstruction of the scarred face could not stop Chiyoko from pursuing it. The world has changed, the vicissitudes of life, everything is changing, but Chiyoko insists on pursuing a kind of eternity. Eternal love, eternal beauty. Just like the white snow on the canvas, it will never melt, as beautiful as another world. The painter must die, and only by death can he become an eternal lover—the thin back of the red scarf, that is the eternal desire of youth. In the boundless time and space, the growth of love is only a short time, and Chiyoko will stretch her for more than a hundred years, as long as a thousand years. The moving part of a thousand-year-old love lies in eternity. A hundred years later, you and I are no longer there, but love will last for thousands of years. For example, the morning dew, there are many sufferings in the past, and we are so small that we long for eternity. However, the short life is always so changeable, the lover has eternal youth and beauty in the distance, but Chiyoko is haggard here, from a little girl to an old woman. "I'm no longer the little girl in his memory. I don't want him to see how old he looks." The twilight of the beauty and the end of the hero are the saddest endings for mankind.
Let us put aside the eternal tragedy, just as we put aside love at first, we will find that Chiyoko is not so much looking for something, it is better to say that she is looking for this kind of persistence. Extravagance does not have the beginning, but the seldom overcomes the end. Who has never cherished dreams, but how many of them can stay true to their original intentions all their lives? Chiyoko's touch goes far beyond love. She knocked on the cold iron gate again and again, ran again and again, shouted "Wait a while" again and again, and said "It's great, I'm on the path to find him again" before her death, she gave up her life and forgot to die. It's moving.
Maybe you want to ask, does this kind of attachment make sense? What is the value pursued? This is also the deepest theme of this film. Just like the ghost curse, "You will suffer forever in the flames of love, and will not escape your destiny." Pursuit is suffering, why do you want to pursue? The lover that Chiyoko has been following has long since died, and what Chiyoko is looking for is a phantom. Pursuit is just a phantom, this kind of emptiness puts a tragic color on the film, but "emptiness" is the essence of Eastern wisdom. "Empty is color, and color is emptiness." If you don't taste it carefully, it is difficult to realize the Zen in the millennium actress. What a sad thing to pursue a dead phantom! However, if you feel sad, then you are clinging, and you don’t understand the emptiness of dependent origination. Love, eternity, and pursuit are all false appearances, only emptiness is real. Chiyoko understands this truth, and it is not until the end of the film that "not to mention, what I really love is pursuing his journey". People can't help laughing, we are all deceived. It was originally a play in a play, and it was originally a time and space chaos that has traveled through thousands of years. How can you still trust the director's narrative? Telling stories is not Jin Min’s original intention. What he wants to tell us is Buddhism, Zen, and the great wisdom of life. Careful people will definitely find the image of a lotus in the film. The lotus is Chiyoko's favorite flower. Even when Chiyoko's rocket lifts into the sky, the shape of the take-off cabin unfolded is a lotus. The Buddha's light behind the lotus illuminates the life of Chiyoko.
"Sexual emptiness" is indeed the unique wisdom of Buddhism, (approximately understandable, but not very grasping, I am currently watching Master Xingyun's speech on "Heart Sutra", and I can write a special article to explain it later). Empty is not negative, empty is a positive and optimistic attitude towards life. Actively pursue, but not obsessed with results. No matter what happens, no matter what the result is, being able to see through everything is an illusion in the world, only the true heart remains unchanged. This is the most important thing. Sincerely love, sincerely pursue, and sincerely love the journey rather than the result, a Chiyoko with such a sincere heart is immortal. Buddhism talks about reincarnation, the physical body will change, the identity will change, but the true heart will never change. Therefore, Chiyoko of the "Seven Ghosts" will always be on the road of pursuit. End with a sentence from someone else: "I have been walking on the road, now I am better, and my heart is on the road."
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