The sentence'This is a true story.' that appeared in the opening of the film runs through the central idea of the whole film from beginning to end. This is a true story, like a curse, trapping the heroine and also trapping us.
Ironically, the movie "Ice Blood Storm", which the heroine firmly believes in the film, is actually not a true story. It was a joke by the Coen brothers.
However, I think this is not a realistic movie. There are too many unreasonable and exaggerated points in the film, and if you look at it from a surrealistic perspective, you might be more enjoyable. Kumiko is like a combination of the lonely side of all of us. Solitude, Kumiko itself is an incarnation of solitude. The story is simple and the emotions are complicated. From the beginning to the end is a treasure hunting story, but Kumiko’s emotional changes in the treasure hunt are familiar and unfamiliar to us. Because most of us have felt this way before, but Kumiko's emotions, personality and behavior were exaggerated by the director and became an extraordinary combination.
If you think about this film from a realistic perspective, I actually hate Kumiko. 29 years old, accomplish nothing, is an Office Lady who is still doing grassroots work. Communication barriers, being isolated, without friends, I will only keep replaying the video of "Ice Blood Storm" at home every day, immersed in the world of my imagination, blindly believing that the treasures in the movie are real, for Stealing treasures. I absolutely look down on such people in real life. Rinko Kikuchi's acting skills are still good. Kumiko's innocence, ignorance, and gloom are all well performed. It can be said that this movie is the biggest shining point besides the screen. Although I have never liked Kikuchi Rinko's face, some scenes actually made me feel a little disgusted when I watched it, but after thinking about it, maybe this is what the director wants to express to the audience. The innocent and innocent expression on her young face made people feel a bit mentally retarded, and Kumiko's various behaviors also showed that she was not a normal person. After reading it, I felt that I didn't hate the face of Rinko Kikuchi, but the character Kumiko.
There are many things that don’t make sense. For example, at the beginning of the movie, who was hiding the video tape that Kumiko found on the beach? Why did Kumiko start looking for this treasure? What happens after I find it? Why did the bus blow out after she arrived in the United States, and she didn't want to stay in the car and wait for rescue, so she got out of the car and walked by herself? In contrast with the normal people around Kumiko, everything about Kumiko is illogical, as if she and the others are completely in two different worlds. At the beginning, I was still a bit tangled. I didn't like this kind of person at all. After seeing it, I think it's fine, just treat it as a super-realistic movie, don't think in terms of realistic thinking. In fact, "treasure hunt", "treasure hunter", and Kumiko's dress like Little Red Riding Hood, all look like plots and words that will appear in fairy tales. The protagonist of immersion and treasure hunting turned a deaf ear to the ordinary life around him. He wanted to find the treasure he believed in his heart. Despite the opposition of people around him, he finally embarked on the path of treasure hunting. After arriving in the new world, he finally went through a lot of hardships. Found the treasure. Does this look like a perfect fairy tale? The implication is to teach children the courage to stick to their beliefs and challenge reality.
Only at the end of this fairy tale, this brave man, treasure hunter Kumiko, only found the treasure in a dream, but in reality she is probably buried under the white snow.
In fact, the most impressive thing about the whole movie is that towards the end, Kumiko wrapped a blanket and walked in the snowy forest. A wolf ran over and bit her blanket, and then snatched her from "Ice Blood Storm". DVD.
When I saw this scene, I immediately thought of "I Like American and American Likes Me" by Joseph Beuys. I don’t know if the director deliberately referred to Beuys. This scene appeared quite suddenly. Although the meaning of this work by Beuys is similar There is no similarity in this film, but what is interesting is that Beuys once said that he participated in the air force and was shot down by the enemy. After his comrades died tragically, he was fortunately rescued by the local Tatars and relied on animal fats and dairy products. And the blankets restored their health, so that some dairy products, and blankets became an important part of Beuys's work. The authenticity of this incident has always been controversial. So no one can be sure whether this is a real one. The story is still just a scene imagined by Beuys himself.
Whether it is a true story, it does not matter anymore.
Because there are illusions in the work itself.
The scenes of the whole film, especially the scene where Kumiko found the treasure at the end, made me feel great satisfaction. Kumiko’s Little Red Riding Hood’s tapestry is extra prominent in the white snow, very very beautiful. The first half of the filming in Tokyo seemed very depressing. The crowded stations and Kumiko's messy hut made the whole scene so depressing. After arriving in the new world, it becomes another empty sense of depression. Road, forest, snow, Kumiko was lonely in Tokyo. After arriving in the United States, I felt that loneliness was materialized, but Kumiko’s heart was no longer as gloomy as in Tokyo, knowing that the police officer told her that it was fake Yes, there is no treasure, it is just a movie. Then Kumiko broke out and ran away from the kind police, because she insisted that she was right. The box was not just a treasure for her, but the one she had been looking forward to and looking for, and abandoned for this goal. Too many things, a belief that has worked hard for a long time.
Kumiko is dead. But for her, death may be beautiful, because in the world after her death, she finally found her own treasure.
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