Snow Falling on cadars !
Compared with the slightly gaudy name of "Love When the Snow Flies", I prefer "Snow Falling on the Fragrant Cedar Tree" and the Chinese translation of the original novel "Snow Falling on the Fragrant Cedar Tree".
In 2018, Ethan Hawke was 48 years old, and in 2018, Kudo Yuki was 47 years old.
"Snow Falling on the Cedar Trees" was released in 1999, 19 years ago. Ethan Hawke and Yuki Kudo were at the most splendid youth in their lives when the film was made. A pair of handsome men and beautiful women staged a scene of love that could not cross races but eventually crossed human nature.
"Snow Falling Fir Tree" is a novel by American writer David Gatson published in 1994. It won the Faulkner Prize for Fiction and sold 5 million copies in the United States. Sen's representative work.
Adapting a novel into a film is actually quite risky. Throughout the history of film development, there are more failures than successes. The winners are like the famous "Godfather", and the losers are like "White Deer Plain".
Maybe "Snow Falling on a Cedar Tree" can't be as famous as "The Godfather", but it is still a masterpiece adapted from a novel into a movie.
The story spans the youth, youth, and adulthood of the hero and heroine. It is based on love entanglements, but it does not fall into the cliché of love movies. Taking a murder case as the main line of the story, the love stories are intertwined, but it reflects the theme of ethnic integration. What is most valuable is that it describes the embarrassing experience of Japanese-Americans in the United States after the Pearl Harbor Incident and the historical facts of being exiled and guarded in concentration camps, and tells an American story against a special historical background.
All kinds of evidence show that the husband of the heroine Hatsue may be the murderer. The white people in the surrounding small towns are hostile to the Japanese immigrants living in the small town, and it is difficult to clear the suspicion.
At this time, the male protagonist Isa, who returned from the battlefield, is also in a state of confusion in his life. He wants to renew the good old days with his first lover, Chue. If Chue's husband is guilty, Isa has hope to reunite with his lover. Continue leading edge. When the case came to a deadlock, Isa, the son of a newspaper editor, used the spirit of a reporter's quest to prove through weather data that Hatsue's husband did not kill, so that his lover kept the family intact.
The film's cinematographer, Robert Richardson, is a three-time Oscar winner for Best Cinematography. In this film, Robert. Richardson also dedicated the most beautiful scene. The picture of "Snow Falling on the Cedar Trees" is so beautiful that any shot can be used as a computer desktop. After watching the whole movie, what I can't forget for a long time in my mind is the beautiful snow scene in the movie, the sadness and passion of young people, and the wild cedar trees and snow field.
The snow field with swirling snow and distant mountains contrasts, bright, clean and cold. A large number of short-term scenes recalling the past are interlaced, which promotes the development of the plot. On the other hand, it also reflects the painful, desperate and beautiful and sad love of the hero and heroine.
Slow motion and flashbacks are frequently used in the film, and montage is skillfully applied to the back-and-forth between reality and memory, without being blunt and abrupt. Especially the male and female protagonists in the movie ran in the woods when they were teenagers and had a tryst in the tree hole. They used a lot of back flashes and blurred silhouettes to make the young people's youthful, sincere, and painful mixed feelings. The erotic love is very good, and it really achieves what the Chinese say "lust but not lewd, sad but not hurt"!
I especially like the large number of distant scenes in the film. The contrast between the distant mountains and the near lake makes the winter in the film look extraordinarily cold.
When Isaac proved his husband's innocence, the Japanese in the courtroom took off their hats to Isaac upstairs, warm and shocking.
The most touching thing is that in the end, Hatsue chased out of the courtroom and hugged Isa tightly. On this snowy winter night, this hug was extraordinarily warm.
I think it must be the warmest hug in the world, which combines gratitude, love, justice, farewell and good wishes and repayments for the kindness and integrity of human nature.
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