Those nuanced and flawed beauty

Mabelle 2022-01-19 08:01:15

As a lot of people and their wives and children walked towards the car under the tree along the winding road, the camera slowly shook, and the whole town and the distant beach once again appeared in a panoramic view. The director threw out amidst the roar of the car. The last regrettable sadness, grandma did not get in her son's car until she died. He didn't realize his son's wish to drive her to go shopping.

It is Hirohito Edema and the director who are masters of detailed sketching. Throughout the movie, these nuanced lens expressions can be seen everywhere, especially in the description of the shortcomings, from the lack of a drawer cabinet to the sudden departure of grandpa when he took a family portrait. To the tiles in the bathroom that have never been repaired...

In addition, he is good at leaving blanks when interpreting, and he doesn’t speak thoroughly. Maybe the Asians admire implicitness and like the implication in landscape paintings. The missing drawer is reserved for the eldest son Chunping. The grandfather suddenly left when he took a family portrait. There is a loss of people in the family, and it is the pure peace who will leave forever and never come back. It is not a taste in the heart, it is better not to shoot.

These bit by bit details have created a panoramic picture of a traumatized family. It is Hirokazu Ke that often points the camera at the family. Different types of families, families of different life states, because the family is the basic unit of human society, the family is the society. "Non-stop" tells the story of a family that has suffered a major family change (child bereavement), and its state fifteen years later, while the recently awarded "Thief Family" attempts to explore the formation of a family by all kinds of people who are not related by blood. possibility.

The plot development of the whole movie is calm, peaceful and stable. Why did you choose to tell about the state of a family who lost children fifteen years later? Maybe the director still likes to express the trauma in a subtle and euphemistic way. At that moment, the plot opened and closed. It may not be the director of the East that is good at, or it may be worried that there is not much new idea in the expression.

This way of expression is reminiscent of Fukuki with a cow in "To Live" slowly telling the heart-wrenching pain of bankruptcy, enlisting in the army, bereavement, bereavement, etc. in this life, but using Very calm language, expressing the weight.

Suddenly I remembered the thousand-year-old relic tree that I saw in Guyan Painting Village in Lishui, Zhejiang. In the thousand years of rain, snow, wind and frost, the trunk has been hollowed by thunder and lightning, but its head is still raised, the branches and leaves are luxuriant, in the sunny afternoon breeze, Tell me about the origin of every scar on my body.

The description of the details can directly hit people's hearts. In the long river of life, you can always clearly recall those moments that are deep in your mind, the sun, air, breeze, the eyes of your loved ones, and a subtle movement that day. The clothes he wears, the food he eats, the words he has said, the songs in his ears...this may be one of the reasons why Yuka Kee is so obsessed with details.

Just like grandparents seeing off many families at the bus station, the bright weather, the words of exhortation, the warm handshake, the backs of the two old and one stumbling after parting, can always inadvertently trigger the depths of your memory. A similar picture, touching the softest inch of your heart.

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Still Walking quotes

  • Yukari Yokoyama: Even when they die, people don't really go away. Your father's here, right inside you.

  • Kyohei Yokoyama: That useless piece of trash. Why'd my son have to save him? There were plenty of others.

    Ryota Yokoyama: Please don't call him useless and trash in front of the kids.