"Love Letter" is a classic first love to youth movie, with the typical characteristics of Japanese movies, with the breath of death, sad and beautiful. In the youth-type romance films I have watched, European teenagers are sad and independent; American teenagers are sunny and free-spirited; Korean teenagers are stubborn and tough and restrained; only Japanese youth films or sports passions , Or literary and artistic, all faintly carry the decisive death sadness, this unique worship of death makes people feel fascinated by it. "Love Letter" is in line with the above characteristics: first love, secret love, campus, death, love. Every first lover on campus has experienced it, but what can be displayed so beautifully, looking at the big screen, it is really Japanese.
The film was shot in 1994. The director is Shunji Iwai, the head of Japanese Xiaoqing. This film is his first feature film to be released. It brings together the best-looking faces in Japan at that time: the elegant and dignified Miho Nakayama; the mature and domineering Feng Kawaetsuji; fresh and sweet national girl Sakai Miki and Japan's last beautiful boy Takashi Kashiwahara.
I like a movie, of course, not just because of its impeccable director, actor skills and big production, I like it only because it touches people's hearts. "Love Letter" is such a work that is not good enough, but it can get into your heart. The story is very simple, it can even be said to be thin. To put it bluntly, it is the mode of I love you but you love him/her. There are no gorgeous special effects, but the smooth narrative rhythm, the beautiful use of light and shadow, and the heartfelt acting expression. , The beautiful soundtrack packs this fragile story into tears.
Young men and women with the same name and surname met in the same class. The classmates kept making jokes about them. One was quiet and sweet, and the other was stubborn and strong. The first love came so quietly. Class elections fight for jokes, help girls from other classes confess and make fun of them, deliberately increase the time to get along with the answers under the bicycle lights, the sports games are just to be strong in front of the girls they love, etc., the movie will be between young girls The details of that kind of affection are expressed vividly, so that the viewers can find the self in these small details, ironing the softest part of the heart that may not be humane. These details are composed of the memories of the female Fujiiki as an adult. Hiroko Watanabe and the female Fujiiki, who have lost their love, gradually find themselves in these lost beauty-growth, which is also one of the main themes of this film. Hiroko learned that his fiancé had such a helpless original intention for his "unknown and deep" emotions, and finally let go of the mountain where Fujii Shu died and accepted another person's secret love; and the female Fujii Shu until the school girls He borrowed the bookmark from the boy Fujiiki before he left, only to realize that he had missed a first love on campus, missed it, and will never come back again. It can only be remembered.
What is the first love in everyone's memory? Is it the same as the movie, the pure secret love, the smile with tears, like cherry blossoms in spring and snow flakes in winter fleetingly?
Do you remember the Fujii tree behind the white curtains of the library in the movie?
Do you remember the man running against the sun on the basketball court in reality?
Do you remember the Fujii tree who answered the answer under the car lights after school in the movie?
Do you remember the intently focused girl who secretly watched in class in reality?
Do you remember the two Fujii trees chased by bike under the cherry tree in the movie?
Do you remember the man who teased you with small insects in reality?
Do you remember the Fujii tree who shouted to the snow mountain in the movie?
Do you remember the sad and crying girl next to her?
Perhaps we have all forgotten the little bits and pieces of the past, the splendid beauty of youth was wasted by the years. Cherish the moment, don’t be like Fujii Shu when he sees the library card with his head pictured. Love has become a passing away in memory....
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