Dancing Elysse, blooming flowers

Angela 2022-02-27 08:02:17

Hua, a shy and silly girl; Alice, a lively and outgoing girl. Like all the teenage girls we know who grew up together, they went to school together, rode the car together, left school together, played together, whispered together, babbled together, and surprised and deceived together. Farewell to the cruel youth of "All About Lily Zhou", Iwai brought us a period of youthful youth, and it is still such a youth story that makes people feel comfortable and warm, "Flower and Elysse", two The story of a girl's growth, friendship, dreams, love, growth, their stories condense our growth.
In Iwai's films, girls often play the role of core characters, and they are also the characters he often focuses on portraying. Like Iwai's previous films, the story of Flower and Elysse is based on reality, which makes people feel close, but also has fantasy in the plot, which makes people feel wonderful. The interweaving of reality with dreams is also the attraction of his films. In fact, the life of Flower and Alice is no different from the life trajectory of many girls. There is a secret love for a senior, a dream of becoming a star, a complex feeling of awe and admiration for the elders, and mutual tantrums after misunderstandings. However, they have a bizarre "love triangle" with a senior, which is unique.
When telling the story of the friendship between two young girls, it is often a combination of "front" and "back". One is always shy but fanciful, a little weird, and often stands in the "back". At this time, it is necessary to The other person is standing "in front", an outgoing girl who can lash out at boys, a girl who helps her friends to come forward and convey love messages. Hua is the girl in the "rear". She doesn't express her love directly, but she knows that she and the senior she secretly loves join the same student club to get close to him, although this "stand-up comedy" club is really different and borderline. After the senior "amnesia", she wickedly made up the lies that the senior once confessed to her to achieve a strange relationship. And when her lie was flawed, she pushed her friends to the front again, and let Alice enter the relationship inexplicably, playing the role of the abandoned, but what can be done, who called them friends in the boudoir, So she played the role of this "hard worker". Alice is the character who always stands "in front" among the two girls, a relatively more mature girl, a friend who can sacrifice and give up for friends. She is lively and generous, has a dream of becoming a star, and has delicate feelings at the same time. Gradually, she fell in love with the senior who Hua liked, but she still suppressed the love in her heart. She gave up a possible relationship, but in the end she was in the cup Dance, raise the dream of youth.
From the perspective of plot and expressiveness, I think Iwai has no greater breakthrough in this film than in the past, and it does not have the impact of "All About Lily Zhou". However, Iwai in this film is more tender, and the feelings expressed are more delicate, especially the youthfulness and dreams of youthful growth can arouse the audience's sympathy. Alice should be the girl in the film who is more likely to impress and like the audience. She carries the youth of more people in her body. Like many girls, she has her star dream. The failure, until the end of the dance where she was astonished. The perfect combination of structure and music is Iwai's strength, and the amazing perfection of Alice dancing, the soothing music with some sobbing seems to express the pain in the heart of Alice who has just bid farewell to a love that has just started and died, Ellie Poetry's graceful and light dance steps seem to express her immortal dream. This scene makes people feel beautiful and touching, like an angel descending to earth, which makes me stare blankly. She did look forward to this moment for too long. She may still remember the moment when she parted with Hua Ai's senior in tears. Although the secret love had already been born, she could only choose to give up in order to spend her time. She couldn't express her love, so she used When she said "I love you" in Chinese, she was unable to say goodbye wishes, so she could only say "goodbye" in Chinese. The senior didn't know what she said, it was no longer important, she just said it to herself and left it to cherish for a period of time. The promise of the Ace of Hearts, the cello played the music like weeping, just like the beauty and helplessness of youth.
Hua may not be as lovable as Alice, she seems a little selfish and willful, but when we see her rehearsing her show so seriously at the back of the film, we find that she has also begun to grow. Instead of doing something to get close to a man she has a crush on, she begins to have her own life, even if the last audience is only one person. Before the performance came on stage, she endured the pain in her heart to apologize to the senior and said goodbye to a nonsense love. Her unbearable sadness has already made us forgive a girl for her nonsense. Young allows her to be mischievous. She did a little wrong, but she finally faced it bravely, plucked up the courage to admit it, and bravely stepped onto the stage to perform seriously.
Starting from a farce romance with comedy, to the frustration and sadness of youth, the two girls also began to grow up. In the end, she found her own stage, and Alice finally danced to her heart's content. In the end, she bid farewell to the sad years. Flower finally smiled again, and the two girls were still chasing and playing. The story of growth is always like this, and the process has many twists and turns. , but in the end there will always be a corner of the sun. A warm movie, a sunny movie, the story of two girls brings us beautiful memories.

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  • Xzavier 2022-03-26 09:01:13

    6.8; it's cooler to stop at the close-up of the magazine cover at the end

  • Madonna 2022-03-24 09:03:38

    Wandering between four stars and five stars, and finally hit the former. Iwai's work in 2004, as I said before, if it weren't for Iwai's handwriting, "Flower and Alice" is likely to be an ordinary idol film, and Suzuki Xing and Aoi Yu are just handsome boys with side faces. Just a vase. But Iwai is different. You don't need to be too distracted or worried by the plot, it's just so calm and flat. Maybe everyone is not used to Iwai returning to the beautiful and clean scenes of "Love Letter" and "April Story", and the suppressed and cruel emotions disappeared without a trace. It's true that Iwai's films are slow and even protracted, but no one wants to fast-forward, because even missing a small detail is often "destructive". Alice's last ballet has always been very impressive, it only belongs to that flowering season

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