Tony Takiya is the protagonist's name. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Haruki Murakami. The protagonist who was born alone and the heroine who is addicted to shopping are all very dramatic elements, but the film of more than an hour did not piece together these elements into a drama with ups and downs. The flow method tells the story.
Loneliness is the eternal theme of human beings. In the front of the film, a particularly cold montage lens is used to build Tony's original family. When he grew up, he became a successful illustrator, and he also met his lover Yingzi. It seems that the lonely life of childhood is over. And Yingzi is also lonely. Although the film does not have Yingzi's past, she introduced herself from the beginning that "only clothes can fill the emptiness in my heart". However, two lonely people are like two plants that grow by themselves, their roots desperately plundering towards the eternal nothingness. Tony got a beautiful and moving wife, and every day he wakes up looking for her figure, worrying about gains and losses, swallowing his life in surprise and anxiety. And Yingzi morbidly shuttles through the mall day after day, the camera only shows her busy feet, like a hungry jackal approaching its prey step by step, until the locker room gets bigger and bigger, full of she can't wear it. of exquisite clothing. Sick possessiveness corrodes the souls of two people. Camus said, "When the longing for happiness is too eager, then pain arises in the depths of the human heart." When Yingzi realized his morbidity and wanted to break up , but the designs and colors of those clothes kept popping up in his mind, so that he lost control of his mind and had a car accident. And her traces are still there. The camera swiped through every piece of high-quality fabrics and well-cut clothing, but the dim lighting could not cover Tony, who had lost his beloved wife. She left the clothes like shadows, and the mountains of thoughts often made him choked up. So he found a young girl who was similar to his wife and asked her to work with him every day in the clothes that his wife had not yet worn. The beautiful body is like a wife, but the loneliness is like a shadow. Life still flows forward like water. My father also left, leaving behind a large number of records that were collected during his lifetime. Tony sold all his clothes and records, leaving nothing but an empty house. The story is over and everything is back to square one.
The cinematography and shooting techniques are also very refined. There are very few lines, and the plot is mainly driven by white speech and a large number of b roll shots. Sometimes the actors will read some psychological words themselves, creating a balance between alienated loneliness and the sense of presence of the drama. The tone of the movie is also low-saturation cold gray, the composition is simple and clean, and the soundtrack is written by Sakamoto Ryuichi. The whole movie is like a sterilized instrument in a hospital, sharp, icy, and cold. Very Haruki Murakami, full of wabi-sabi aesthetics.
What will be left after leaving, a room of clothes, a few large boxes of records, or the light spots leaked from the cherry blossom trees in spring, the warmth left on the pillow; letters, books or a stack of paintings? But once you leave, these things that connect people lose their meaning. It turns out that the end point after death is still loneliness. In "Big Buddha Plath", it is said that now is the space age, people can take spaceships to the moon, but they will never be able to explore the universe in other people's hearts. We seek connection in everything we experience, but inside we are increasingly empty.
Is it completely over? No, not yet, never. Tony rescues a picture from the fire while he burns everything that's left behind. It was the young girl with her phone number on it. What about the back? This unfinished story may be the "medicine" that the movie gives us.
what is loneliness
i feel love
but never reach it
above
Good night
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