"Thank you for finding me in the corner of the world".
The title of this movie is very genteel and pink, but the whole movie doesn't have too many blushes and heartbeats.
First, the story is told in the simple culture of the times, and then the pain of the war is spoken without sensational but very moving!
In Japan in the 1940s, the heroine born in Hiroshima, Ling, was a simple and cheerful girl. At that time, when she was not in control of her marriage, she married far away, missed her first love, and left in an unfamiliar city. Familiar people, stumbled to start the life of the bride.
They were born at an untimely time and encountered the most heartbreaking "World War II". A small civilian survived in such an environment when life became more and more difficult due to constant air raids.
The heroine is plain and firm in the face of these unknown changes and shocks that can be saddened in the sky, and slowly turns a foreign land into a hometown, so that the marriage without love in that era can find happiness in plainness.
In the shock of each field, there is not too much bloody shock, but it is said that in the most brutal war, the brave and true of ordinary and strong living.
The slogan in the promotion - "This is not the life I planned, but right now, is my best life." Really touching!
The film doesn't get much publicity, and it's another World War II "anti-war" story that's been discussed as somewhat boring.
At the beginning, I was actually very curious about how director Kabuchi Suzhi would interpret such an issue, especially when interpreting it in the way of animation, Hayao Miyazaki's "Grave of the Fireflies" was like a huge obstacle ahead!
But I really like Director Katbuchi's arrangement in this film. Not to mention that the clean and gentle soundtrack makes people feel warm; the whole film does not use any sensational techniques and pictures to make people feel the emotional and sentimental stimulation of war; several scenes of life and death do not have those bloody visual impact. ; Even the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, he interprets it with a flash!
Without those pictures of corpses lying in the fields and tragic screams, he told the most painful stories in a calm and peaceful way, a way of treating the pain that did not make people overflowing with emotions and burst into tears.
It's no wonder that he was Miyazaki's apprentice, and he told a helpless but true story of war in such a way! In a way that does not evoke people's emotions, it calmly but movingly narrates that era of hurting people!
"What this story wants to tell is not just war." This is what Director Katbuchi mentioned in the interview.
And I really think this movie, in addition to the war, the Japanese woman's life background in that era, as well as the touching emotional interweaving of those people interacting with people, the plain and sincere emotions make this movie even more impressive Favorite!
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