Hiroko’s husband, Fujii Ki, died in a mountain disaster three years ago. Because he could not restrain his love for him, Hiroko followed the home address that Shu left in his classmates when he was studying in Otaru City and wrote a letter “Send to "A love letter to heaven" was given to him, but unexpectedly, he received a letter from the tree unexpectedly. It turned out that the letter was sent to a woman who had the same name, the same surname and the same class as Fujii Shu. In order to learn more about the lover's high school days, Hiroko and the woman Fujii Shu began a correspondence exchange. In the intermittent memories of the female Fujii tree and the male Fujii tree, a sentimental sentiment surfaced.
Hiroko Watanabe is the most depressing character in the film. At the same time, she also leads the direction of the film. From closed to open, from reluctance to relief, Hiroko’s path is open. While looking for her husband’s past, she also completes it. A journey through my own soul. And Hiroko and Otoiki are similar, their insincere and bad words towards feelings are exactly the same. The male Fujii Shu will choose Hiroko not only because she and the female Fujii have similar faces, but also because of her similar aura to him. It can be said that the male Fujii tree completed his belated confession to the female Fujii tree through Hiroko.
The Japanese are obsessed with two things, death and snow, black and white. What Watanabe Junichi has never forgotten to this day is Junko who sleeps at the bottom of Akan. He said that time will only destroy love. This is the only reason why he has remained single. Similarly, Kawabata Yasunari’s "Snow Country" also permeates this The saddest tone in love-"futility of love", in vain, to put it bluntly is "too late." When you know you love him, it's too late, there are already people around him. When you know that he loves you, it is too late and you will be married. In "Love Letter", this kind of "lack of time" pushes the tragic atmosphere of the script to the extreme in such a tough and irreversible way as death.
Maybe it's because I am a pessimist. I read "The Love Letter" and I have no other feelings, just two words, sad. Being sad for all the relationships in it, whether it's the melancholy of the people who have passed away or the heartbeat of wanting to talk, it is sad. As soon as the opening song sounded, Watanabe Hiroko raised his head and I shed tears without saying a word. Several boys around me told me that their favorite film is "Love Letter", and the most yearning feeling is the kind of "love letter". My boyfriend even said "I can cry if I can't watch it". Reason, to refuse my ebullient invitation. This phenomenon is very interesting. It must not be completely attributed to the bad taste of "what you can't get is good". Just ask, who doesn't like that kind of feeling? So pure and so fragile, it melts like the first snow. We all want to think of him when he came, the slender boy hiding under the snow-white curtains and the warm sun instead of a fat man lying on the sofa drinking beer and eating popcorn. The only way is to leave, when he was a slender boy.
My favorite part of the movie is that the female Fujii is riding a bicycle in the front, and the male Fujii is coming up from behind, putting a flour bag on her head, and then leaving triumphantly in her screams. I think this passage can better reflect his feelings towards her than the library card confession later. Bullying is the cutest and shy way of expressing feelings for those adolescent boys. Although the female Fujii tree later said in the letter that these things seemed to be very disturbing at the time, but such troubles are not sweet. You have the same name and were selected as librarians at the same time, such a couple How could the men and women involved in the fate center talk nonsense that denies each other's particularity while peeking at each other uncontrollably. On the day of the death of the female Fujiiki’s father, the male Fujiiki went to her home to return the books, but it was clearly a small excuse to see her, watching him stutter and say polite remarks similar to the change of mourning, even if it was enveloped. In the shadow of her father’s loss, Fujii Shu still responded with a bright smile. At that moment, as long as she saw him, it was sunny.
You like him, and he likes you. You know that one day you will connect with each other, but you don’t know which day it will be. This is the pure version of "the best time between them."
I prefer Hiroko to the cheerful female Fujii, because of her bravery and strength. If it weren't for Bozi's persistent pursuit, that dusty relationship might not have the day to be seen again, but her letting go has fulfilled another love relationship. Let go of obsession, let go of grievances, let go of the love that is far away, her question and answer at the foot of the snow-capped mountain is not only a love letter to O Fujii, but also her courage and belief. At the same time, she is far away in the hospital bed. In the above, the female Fujii Shu who recovered from a serious illness also murmured and repeated this question and answer. At this moment, Hiroko's strong feelings finally connected the three of them. "Love Letter" not only refers to the love letter that Hiroko sends to the male Fujiiki, but also the letter between Hiroko and the female Fujiiki. A feeling is passed from one place to another, even if heaven and man are forever separated. It is still intactly preserved on the last page of the "Reminiscence of the Years". For me, this is a film by Hiroko Watanabe. In addition to the final release, she restrained her sorrow several times. This restraint finally gave her back with the generous gift of "letting go". Following in her footsteps and approaching her, it is also my own memory. Seeing this pure white world through her eyes, through her mouth, said the sentence to him who had been missing for a long time-"How are you? I am very Good."
Iwai Shunji's shots flowed slowly through the ice and snow in Otaru, sad, touched, regrettable, too late, everything melted in the tears that will flow but not shed by the female Fujii tree, she is in a hurry. She wanted to put away the library card but found that the clothes she was wearing had no pockets, so she could only put it back into the book again. This is her first love with nowhere to put it, just let it return to the place where it was first discovered. This unbearable lightness of life, like dust, and time, will rest in eternal silence. In Iwai's movies, there are never too fierce disputes and rhetoric. Everything follows the principle of time. It blooms, bears fruit, decays, and rots. After being blended into the soil, it is prosperous again. His sadness but not sadness, love but not ignorance, sinking but not depravity, makes "Love Letter" a well-deserved leader in similar themes.
In the end, I want to end with a sentence like this-"May you put down and stay in the light", this is for you and me, and also for time's greatest respect.
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