blurry picture, the vaguely recognized handwriting, the rustling of old tape... everything unfolds in a confusing picture, and the story maker hides behind the video tape to watch Make you smile.
The gloomy sea, the endless coastline, everything is silent except for a bright red figure. There is no running, no language, and even the eyes are not clear. The steps are the same frequency, walking, walking, Walking. When she played, Kumiko was a person who kept walking, a map, and she was a treasure hunter with a secret. The cave is damp, covered with insects and crabs, and no one cares about it, but here is a box of old video tapes, and traces of human civilization appear strangely in this wilderness. Everything is unusual.
We have no way of knowing whether this opening is real or whether Kumiko has made up her own words. The video tape may have been bought by her or obtained occasionally. It is indeed unlikely that she obtained it in such a strange way. However, she believes that this important clue has an unusual origin, or in her words: "I discover it" Therefore, for her, it is real existence and real occurrence. Like a certain kind of authentication and being authenticated, we have reason to follow Kumiko’s logic to believe that this mysterious clue, the buried treasure, chose her, and guided her forward like [destiny], making her a certain distinction from others. , Even distinguished from the special meaning of this world.
This selection is of great significance. Kumiko lives in Tokyo, is close to the thirty-year-old mark, and is still in the position of OL. When society can see her, she is such a humble person, wearing an ordinary red sweater and girlish black short skirt, walking silently on the streets where people go. The nine-to-five work seemed to her like a kind of meaningless mechanized repetition. She was just a puppet with a law on it. Together with her colleagues, she put on the same professional shirt and did mechanized things. Pour tea for the boss, send laundry, organize papers, answer phone calls. She is silent. She faced countless questions from her boss, her mother, her classmates and colleagues. The rules of this society do not allow such a negative existence to question its values. People should live actively, fall in love, get married and have children, or struggle to achieve a higher social position. In short, a silent negative existence like Kumiko makes her Everyone around me feels unwell. And this discomfort evolved into fear and confrontation in Kumiko's heart. We can see this fear in countless details. Sitting in front of the boss, her voice trembled and her eyes couldn't focus. When the former classmates happily asked for her contact information, she lowered her head and didn't speak; she sighed when answering the call from her mother; When facing the eyes of her classmates and children, she confronted a child in silence and fled. All fears converged into an overwhelming net in successive questions and gazes. And her confrontation is also obvious, tired of dialogue, spitting in the daily tea, until the end, discarding the boss's clothes into the trash can, stealing the company's credit card. She is such an invisible existence. In other words, the meaning of life is an absurd repetition for her, and she resists this absurdity and constructs her own value.
Kumiko has a crowded house. The house is closed and filled with objects. The three positions of the picture are the rabbit, the sofa, and a big old-fashioned TV, which constitute a delicate balance. Coming home is a kind of liberation for Kumiko, the world is relatively closed, the rabbit is docile, and everything is under her control. She played the videotape over and over, repaired it, cleaned it, and fixed the frame again and again, and played it back again. For her, this is like a major and necessary task, and she is like a primary school student doing homework, holding a notebook, measuring the distance between the screens, and doing meticulous preparations. These are all the items she took on the journey: video tapes, maps, a red sweater. No one knows her plan, no one understands the meaning of this plan, she is a secret hunter.
She embarked on a journey of being chosen, or her destiny, a person, a stolen credit card, to a faraway country, without fluent English, and even no luggage. Even in the real treasure hunt, everything impossible is so scribbled, but for Kumiko, everything goes smoothly. All she cares about is what is most important to her, as she keeps repeating, "I want to go fargo" She just wants to do this, to get there, just like her walking frequency has never changed. The treasures she thinks are even dispensable in the meaning of the whole process. The so-called treasure, in the film, is a box of money buried by a criminal in the vast snow. Does Kumiko need this money? No, what she needs is the meaning contained in this secret journey. No one understands, no one believes, and no one to walk with. She is a person walking between the boundless world, with a touch of red to set off the absurdity and loneliness of the world. . She jumped off the stagnant bus. She escaped from the house of the old man who took her in. She refused the help of the police and escaped until she finally jumped out of the taxi and escaped. Her behavior pattern all the time, that is, to escape and walk, to escape, is to escape from this normal world, and to walk is to face the loneliness of heaven and earth with a kind of faith. From a treasure hunter's point of view, she should use the help of people around her, she should avoid the disadvantages of nature, and she should try to seek companions—but Kumiko just wants to escape. We often see tension and restlessness in her conversations with others, but when she is wrapped in a quilt and stepping on the road on the road, she is almost eternally approaching, and what we see is tranquility. The limit of loneliness gradually increased in this process. In the beginning, it was a strange city. Later, it was language barriers, and when the credit card became invalid, the conditions for one's survival were gradually pushed to the limit. Until the end, she was alone, and her surroundings were completely far away from human civilization. There was no communication, no food, no water, and no money. She was such a weak and sick girl, wrapped in a sheet of shabby cotton that was not too thick. Being, a compass and a map, walking under the blizzard and extreme cold temperatures. Until the night fell, even the light was lost, she had only one flashlight, and the endless darkness, forest, and snow before her eyes. The whole world descended on a human being with an extremely ruthless loneliness. At this time, for the world, she is unique, for her, the world is so, without any judgment, completely neutral and indifference. Is this the meaning she is looking for? The red soul of a human being contrasts with the white of a world.
The end of the film is like a religious picture. She wakes up from the heavy snow, the rabbit appears, and the treasure mark lies on the snow, as if it has been waiting for her arrival. And she found her treasure and left step by step in the children's song. I once thought that the film would end in the heavy snow in the early morning, the neutrality of the world swallowed up personal pursuit, and everything returned to silence. And how to interpret her awakening, such a surreal picture? Yes, for Kumiko, life, or death, the meaning of life has been completed at this moment. The real treasure is not there, but Kumiko's treasure is in her hands.
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