"Snow Falling On Cedars" Love is when the snow is flying - only "love" This article only represents personal feelings, please do not quote it out of context; if you need to reprint, please indicate the source link "Snow Falling On Cedars" is adapted from the American writer David The best-selling novel of the same name by David Guterson. It was filmed in 1999 by Scott Hicks, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for "Shine," and was released in January 2000. Title: Snow Falling on Cedars Director: Scott Hicks Starring: Ethan Hawke Kudo Yuki Suzuki Kyo Release Year: 1999 Official Website: http://www.snowfallingoncedars.com/ Country/Region of Manufacture: United States imdb No.: tt0120834 Translation: Snow falling on cedar trees, love falling on pine trees when the snow is flying advance. At the beginning of the night, the lanterns and shadows swayed and the figures were staggered, all of which indicated that a "murder" was about to happen. In the beautiful morning, with the sound of seagulls, the fisherman salvaged a corpse... A Japanese-born Kazuo Miyamoto (Umeda) was a childhood friend of the deceased. Murderer. On the Pacific island of San Pietro, a fierce court rebuttal begins. This is the video line. At that time, it was 10 years after the Pearl Harbor incident, and the pain caused by the war had not been completely eliminated. The American people still had a feeling of rejection and hostility towards Japan, and Japanese people living on American soil were often treated unfairly. Therefore, in this case, the defendant was at a disadvantage from the beginning. But under the powerful force of prejudice, there are still people running for justice and truth. One of them is Ishmael Chambers (Ethan Hawke), the son of a well-respected newspaperman on the island. However, he himself suffers from the indelible pain of eternal life. Sitting on the table of relatives and friends of the defendant, Umeda's wife (played by Kudo Yuki) is his childhood sweetheart lover. The court's rebuttal is full of tension and fear; the stare of the male protagonist, outside the courtroom and the female protagonist are speechless; the childhood budding emotions become fuller and stronger as the camera inserts, and the hidden lines gradually unfold. The indelible grief and fear in the hearts of the people at the root of the war were peeled off layer by layer. The film is only 130 minutes long, but it completes the narrative of two stories that span time and space, races, and families. #Watchpoint 2: After the emotional film was shown, some media did not comment very highly on the content of the film. For example, the American "Times Weekly" commented: "It is essentially just a liberal soap opera" (".. These points of view are completely pinched together, and will never make the viewer feel tedious and dull. Gradually I discovered that a film can really make different audiences feel different. Not just likes and dislikes, but also touch points. Is this sub-theme love? Maybe the male lead's somber, deep stare is truly heartbreaking. Is this subject racism? However, there is no excessive exaggeration of the social environment or even a lack of necessary explanations. Except for the variation of music, all the narratives intertwined with memories and reality are so calm and calm. Precisely because it touches many of our rich and deep feelings—the feeling that I have too much to say, I can’t describe it one by one, and I can understand it all in a chaotic way. To be sure, I just like works that evoke multiple feelings for me at the same time. And, most importantly, I like films where characters exist in historical backgrounds, social environments, and cultural backgrounds. Plump personality, multi-faceted emotional outlook, complex world. These points of view are completely pinched together, and will never make the viewer feel tedious and dull. Gradually I discovered that a film can really make different audiences feel different. Not just likes and dislikes, but also touch points. Is this sub-theme love? Maybe the male lead's somber, deep stare is truly heartbreaking. Is this subject racism? However, there is no excessive exaggeration of the social environment or even a lack of necessary explanations. Except for the variation of music, all the narratives intertwined with memories and reality are so calm and calm. It is precisely because it can touch on many of our rich and deep feelings - the feeling that there is too much to say, it is impossible to describe it one by one, and I can understand it all in a chaotic way. To be sure, I just like works that evoke multiple feelings for me at the same time. And, most importantly, I like films where characters exist in historical backgrounds, social environments, and cultural backgrounds. Plump personality, multi-faceted emotional outlook, complex world. Fate dominates the universe, can it also dominate the human mind? Are you saving others or yourself at the critical moment?When the male protagonist finally decides, he will tell his defense attorney the evidence he has found to prove Umeda's innocence. At the end of the conversation, the golden fire swayed gently in the room, shining warmly on the male protagonist. The camera flashed back to the past again, and the holy, light and slightly sad music sounded quietly. In the vast world, the snow and ice are flying, the two children are laughing and playing, and the happy smiles are permeating the once immature faces... Sometimes, you need an opportunity to liberate yourself from the shackles of the past. Whether it's prejudice, hatred, or even love. He smiled, gratified and relieved; her tears, and the hug that was too long, too long. We need to reflect. The heroine and her husband, who grew up in a different culture, must face the pain of cultural conflict as their worldview and emotional outlook mature with age. During the war, Umeda, who was born in the United States and has been naturalized, was loyal to the military. But when the United States and Japan go to war, they will still be regarded as hostile, or even wronged and convicted. In the film, the scene of expelling the Japanese to the concentration camp, the director cleverly passed by it, how much more is there to describe it? Who hasn't seen a few films about expelling and imprisoning Jews... Leave it to the viewer's imagination. Victims of war, regardless of nationality and race. The hostility of the American people to Japan during and after World War II is not difficult to understand. Even today China and many countries in Asia have resentment against Japan. I don't know how many years and how many generations it will take after the war for this kind of hostility between countries and nations to be completely eliminated. If power and war are the root and seed of hatred... It must be sad that with the progress of society and the development of human civilization to this day, the world is still full of gunpowder and war. There is also the inferiority of being human, blind fear and prejudice. Even if there is no war, such human weakness is still ingrained in our hearts - Japanese fathers educate their sons in kendo, Americans think that they are trained to kill from childhood; Japanese mothers comb their daughter's hair and tell her that she will marry the same kind in the future, loyal Japanese husband. "Humans will always be keen to distinguish themselves from each other in order to protect their humanity." - "Robots in the Dawn". But war and hatred only magnify this weakness, tearing apart the heart and destiny of human beings. Perhaps, the end of the film still can not get rid of the Hollywood stereotypes. With the help of an old lover, he finds evidence, and the truth is revealed. The heroine is reunited with her husband, the hero looks at the happy backs of their family, and leaves in the snow... The clarification of the case, breaking through the love and hatred of self-emotion, finally tells people: the indelible sadness and fear in people's hearts in the root of history, only love, deep and broad love, gentle and open-minded heart, can accommodate all of them . The shock, regret and hope that the final film brings to the audience is lasting. Beyond time and distance, the surging love in people's blood, the most powerful force in human nature, is frozen in a snowstorm, which will never stop and never melt away. #Aspect 3: The performances of all the leading and supporting roles of the characters are delicate and in place, natural and smooth, and the complex heart of each character is real and full. The actor Ethan Hawke is handsome and temperamental. She is fluent in French and German, and is versatile in piano, violin and trumpet. He has a strong personality and never takes money as the principle when choosing scripts. He has hardly acted in blockbuster movies, and even dropped some well-known roles. The heroine Kudo Yuki debuted in 1994 and has acted in "The Last Vampire", "The Blanket of the Wind" and "Memoirs of a Geisha". As Suzuki Kyo, who played the heroine's childhood, I happened to see her performances in "Young Girl", "When I Fall in Love with Snow and Ice", "Girl", "Flower and Alice", "Adult" and "Initial D". Other supporting roles, including the hero's father, mother, heroine's mother, sisters, heroine's husband, heroine's husband's father, the victim, the victim's wife, the victim's mother, the lawyers of both parties... all performed well. The scenes that show the conflict between personalities and feelings, mother-daughter dialogue, father-son dialogue, mother-son dialogue, between friends, between lovers, between husband and wife, between elders and children... are all very exciting. #Aspect 4: The picture is like a masterpiece of Impressionism, and it is always consistent. Deal with the dim light and shadow of the "real" courtroom scene, the thick fog at the dawn of the murder scene, and the blizzard outside the courthouse that is overwhelming; however, the dreamy cedar forest, the busy strawberry field, the playful beach, and the sweetness of the showers in my memory tree hole... Those beautiful and visually impactful movie scenes unify murder, teenage sprouting, concentration camps, etc. against the backdrop of the fictitious Pacific island with snow and ice, clouds and fog, rain and snow, haze and heaviness like life. . Like most Hollywood movies, there is a lot of montage rather than long takes, and many are flashbacks of only a few seconds in length. It has been used many times in the hero's memories of the past, alternating and contrasting with reality, creating a nightmare-like trance. As Hidden Line's childhood romance, beauty and despair, the portrayal is so delicate that it seems to have a taste of European movies. Foggy mountains, water, Japanese kendo as beautiful as a silhouette, blue mysterious and melancholy night... Even from the small details, it can be seen that the director is a person who strives for perfection. For example, in the film, the wife of the plaintiff's deceased responds to the lawyer's recollection of some events before her husband left home in court: through the frosted glass of the house, they are making love; this is a pair of lovers, two living people ! The picture is like oil painting, there is no sensuality and eroticism, only reality. The husband's hand rests on the frosted glass, and the wedding ring on the ring finger clearly appears, suggesting that they were once very happy, in contrast to the next shot of the wife wearing a black veil with tears streaming down her face. The characters are fuller and the film is more three-dimensional. In addition, it is worth mentioning two important images in the film, one is the bright red strawberry that has repeatedly appeared with the heroine, and the other is the hero's left hand lost in the war. "Strawberry" probably has a pure and pure sexual referent, how red it used to be, and the pain and struggle of love and sex are highlighted under that bright color. It's just that when the strawberries are ripe in the next season, the girl has become a woman, and after all, she has become someone else's wife. Therefore, her yellowed photo as the strawberry princess undoubtedly became the most disappointing memory for him. His left hand, distracted by a letter from her breaking ties, was lost in the war. At the moment of loss, he cried out "Japanese bitch" in pain. The hand lost in despair seems to represent all the countries in the war and all the people who have experienced the war, the lost spiritual support, and the incompleteness that will never be erased and restored in the memory. Perhaps, the touching of tragedy is not just when weeping. #WatchPoint5: Music score master James Newton Howard looks at the eternal love of the great era with epic and timeless movements, using Eastern and Western instruments and melodies to describe the emotional entanglement in dreamy poetic images, dazed and heavy. Under the beautiful and magnificent symphony, the love and hatred between the snowy world finally became indifferent and gentle. In general, from the picture to the music, it perfectly reflects the plot and the heart of the characters - the turbulent hidden under the surface of the soft freehand brushwork. It's long overdue to write a few strokes for this film, it has been four years since the first time I saw it. For this article, I downloaded BT for two whole days and two nights, revisited it again, and still felt the same comfort. Went to Xinjiekou today, still nothing. The clerk asked me if it was a Japanese movie, I said no, but the heroine was Japanese, but I still saw a glimmer of hope that there must be DVDs on sale. Before I bought it, I would still like to thank the comrades who put the seeds, very, very grateful.
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