Last year, our family went to Japan during the Spring Festival holiday. I chose a few Japanese movies to bring with me. One of them was "April Story". It was the first time I watched it in Kyoto, and it was so good. If I choose my favorite movie music , must be "April Story".
Although the first literary film I watched in my life was "Love Letter". But among many literary directors, I don't like Shunji Iwai very much, but "April Story" is so perfect. It is a prose poem written by Shunji Iwai for Japan, and the scenery, music and actors are such a perfect blend.
To sum up "April Story" in one sentence: A girl's feelings are always poetry.
She told a very simple story. A Hokkaido girl who graduated from middle school bid farewell to her hometown and went to university in a big city. Facing a new environment, she remembered the male classmate she had a crush on in middle school. She was a little worried but full of curiosity. Enter a new life: live alone, meet new friends, start college life. In the self-introduction class on the first day of college, she saw many classmates with different personalities. Her female neighbor was also a student, but she was not very Japanese, but very Western. She was ignorant and started to join some university clubs. Later, she went to her favorite bookstore for a long time, and happened to bump into a male middle school student who had a crush on working there. She encountered a heavy rain, borrowed an umbrella and returned it. Recognizing each other, she felt that he also had a good impression of herself, and in the sweetness of her secret love being rewarded, she rammed wildly. The story ends here.
The film captures the spirit, the landscape, and the core of the culture of the Japanese, who are so polite, reserved, eager to help others and afraid to trouble others. Especially in the episode of borrowing an umbrella, Matsu Takako said that he was not too far away from his crush, no need. The professor told Matsutaka that they still had a lot of umbrellas. They were all wrong.
Song Takako's simple parents watched her leave in the car, their eyes were full of concern, pride, and reluctance. A quick shot opened the prelude to the movie in a moving symphony. The clubs in the university are recruiting new students (students of the fishing association don't even know how to fish), of course, to meet female classmates. When she arrives at the rented apartment, the cherry blossoms fall like snow throughout the entire movie. April is the season to see cherry blossoms. The beauty of Japan is not only in the cherry blossoms, the clean streets, the quaint buildings, and even the criss-crossing wires and the cyclists everywhere, all are so natural and harmonious.
I went back to my hometown during the Spring Festival holiday this year. I was at home for a few days, but I missed Japan in my hometown. From the first day to the sixth day of the first year, I kept thinking about "April Story", and the familiar music reverberated in my ears. I always felt that China It should be like this, but the reality is always helpless. My hometown is similar to Japan, except for the green wheat fields under the sunny sky. Maybe there was such a period in China, as I read in Shen Congwen's "Border Town", as poetic and picturesque, with girlish feelings, as simple and natural as in Wang Zengqi's "Being Precepts", in love but not in love. Later, maybe it was fate. We missed the opportunity to connect with the world. Everything in the past has become history. We live the life we are today. Only "Platform", "Xiao Wu" and "The Hill Going Home" are the ones that make me feel the same way. play. The dusty streets, the sound of motorcycles, cars, and bicycles, and the hard-working and numb crowd are all of us. So much so that when I watched Bi Gan's "Dinner by the Road", I couldn't believe it was a movie based on reality, but I really hope that Guizhou Kaili is as clean, moist, melancholy, and beautiful as in "Border Town" China of the times.
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