At the beginning of the film, I saw misty sea water and reeds swaying in the wind. Suddenly it reminded me of the "Journey to the West" which is revered as a classic of love. At the beginning, Fairy Zixia was holding a small boat slowly past the reeds. Reed seems to have become the representative of tragedy in my mind. So I preconceived that "The Untouchable Lovers" is also a tragedy. When the camera gradually advanced and the "II Mare" house loomed out of the fog, my heart calmed slightly. After all, a house is not the same as a ship. The enclosed space on all sides represents stability, privacy, and security in people's concept.
And I will go into this room to see the story that happened inside.
At this time, the film once again surprised me. The lens is focused on the letter box in front of the house, making the quaint Oriental-style wooden box look clean and cold behind the blurred background of the house. That lens stayed in my mind for a long time. It is a scene that I can see every clean winter morning, but I have never noticed that the beautiful coolness can penetrate so deep in my heart, as if to freeze my tears. I settled down, all right, let's follow the camera through the long aisle to see what is going to happen to the physical earth. As a result, when the camera walked to the door, we found that the owner wanted to move out of the house.
! Funny, why did the director spend so much pen and ink to render the house? Why even start the movie's name as "II Mare"! With this question in mind, I continue to watch.
Due to the subtlety of the director's narrative, the first twenty minutes of the film are not very easy to understand. At least I think so. At that time I thought it was a weird movie, why did everything go over and over again? Why did the things that Kim Eun-soo had already experienced didn't happen at all when he got to Han Xingxian? Is it because everyone around is cheating? Or something else? After 20 minutes of the film, from the date of the two letters, I finally understood. In that mailbox, time is distorted, connecting two different spaces in 1998 and 2000. The reason? I think it's very advanced physics, but I still don't understand it. But the movie, I think I started to see it.
The next step is the love generated by the communication between the two. Kim Eun Su lost his boyfriend, and Han Sung Hyun lost his girlfriend. And that mailbox seemed to be the "road" arranged for them by heaven. They cared for each other during the two-year interval. Han Xingxian kept running to the place where Kim Eun-shu had appeared two years ago, standing aside watching her from a distance, listening to the recordings in her lost MD, teaching her how to make spaghetti, and designing a house for her. There is no intense emotion, there is not much dialogue, all performance is left to the body and the camera. They pass by each other time and time again, and meet each other two years away again and again. This may be the fate that God said. In the end, maybe there are really lovers who finally get married.
However, if it is just such a movie, I think it may be enough to impress people, but it is not enough to become a classic.
The classics are always sad.
In the movie, there are two plots that I like the most, and I have the deepest feelings.
A plot is a very small detail. Jin Eunshu is a cartoon voice actor by profession. When recording a Christmas special, the director used a side close-up shot to show her cheeks and cheeks were cute and said "Merry Christmas" into the microphone. When she went home, no one cared about her except the store staff who played Santa Claus with a mechanical smile on the road and said "Merry Christmas". She was lying on her bed, the phone was on by her pillow, waiting for her boyfriend's call to change her mind. In the end, she couldn't bear it. After cursing a few words at the photo of her boyfriend, she finally hugged the photo, shed tears, and said "Merry Christmas" to the photo. The pain in my heart at that moment is beyond words.
The other one is actually a warm and lovely scene, but it tells the center of the first half of the movie. They ate spaghetti made in the same way at the same time two years away. At this time, Kim Eun-shu realized that he was not as unhappy as he thought. So at this moment, he understood the sentence "We are suffering because of love." Continue, not disappear". When I heard this sentence for the first time, I paused the camera and pondered silently. Found that we really don't understand what love is. True love is to learn to give up.
So I watched this movie over and over again that taught us how to love, and this movie that taught us how to give up.
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