Along with this immersion, there is a feeling of dryness in the throat. Finally I can drink a sip of water after the film is over. I don't know if this is a common feeling. At least I like this. It's like looking at the sky and bamboo forest in a thirsty afternoon, falling into a dream without knowing it. I woke up with the same dry mouth. And you don't know when you started, although you are still feeling and thinking, but you have ignored everything.
Every time I read Japanese literary works, there are always more things I want to say. The reason may be that I still belong to the kind of person baptized by Eastern culture. That kind of shared sadness, and the loud voice in silence. There is always something too rich in the narratives of Chinese movies, probably accompanied by a heavy history. Chinese people’s feelings are too strong, just talk about music, Jiangnan silk and bamboo are soft but not weak, the guzheng also bursts with profound power in the deep tranquility, and there is no musical instrument as calm and soft as the guitar, because it has lost its voice for too long. The nation has too many things to shout.
Japanese movies are often a different kind of feeling. Memories are good in the calmest occasions, like in a movie. Have you ever wondered how you would choose the best moment in your life, as if you would just take it with you through the endless time after your death? Then we will try to reproduce this memory, but the actor is another young person. You seem to have returned to your most cherished memory. You see bamboo forests, swings, benches, and yourself. Because you are already in your own dream.
Dreamlike. Dreamlike.
This is the place of beauty. The most beautiful thing is when you can even take part in your memory, sitting in the car you ridden that year, in the same car as yourself! But then you won't notice yourself many years later. Then they will act out your most precious story. At that moment, time and space crossed.
I like that the whole film is shot like a documentary. I photographed how they rebuilt their memories with the dead. See how the deceased began to discover his past, his heart and memory during the shooting. It seems that this is really a reality show that can bring beautiful to the participants. Would you also want to see your memory?
Because the common feature of this kind of film is that you discover it unconsciously and think about it so much, but you are actually discovering it by yourself, so they have become a style. Every culture has a different feeling. Don't say that every memory is the best, don't say that you can't choose it. You know, the real value does not lie in what kind of memory you have selected, but in that after the selection, the value of that memory is amplified by the surrounding feelings. Become your rare beauty.
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