just beautiful

August 2022-03-20 09:02:42

What I like is the mood of the film's scene, color, and music combination. In Japan, Qingshao Nayan dressed in traditional kimono, the background music is like a piece of "Pillow Grass", the elegant Japanese classical court, and the lover who is dressed in sakura in the sky leisurely arrives. In the modern city, there are simple and simple living rooms, the clearness and stretching of Chinese calligraphy, and the little halos floating on the walls.
Jumping between tradition and modernity, light and shadow and lines, the director's aesthetic complex is vividly displayed. It's just that I can't accept this film. Writing on the human body, no matter how delicate the skin is and how pure the ink is, always feels a little disgusting. Of course, Qing Shao Nayan, the author of "Pillow Grass", has a feeling for paper, ink and brush that is hard to give up, and Nuozi's hobby of being written and written in "Forbidden Books by the Pillow" is also reasonable. It's just that Xiao Nuozi was scribbled with ink on her face by her father, what is her happiness? When she grows up, why is she so persistent in finding calligraphers who are willing to write on her, and why does she get pleasure from being written and written again and again? The thirteen volumes of the book of the human body were really shocking to me.

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Extended Reading
  • Gia 2022-03-18 09:01:06

    I'm sorry to look at your body again

  • Gia 2022-03-23 09:03:10

    Peter Greenaway either cooks with human body or makes books with human skin. This film is a bit disgusting, and its interpretation of so-called oriental culture is too abstract.

The Pillow Book quotes

  • Nagiko: Warm rain falling from the mountainous clouds. Walking slowly dressed in crimson thinking of Kyoto. Kissed by a lover in the Matsuo Tiasha garden. Quiet water and loud water. Love in the afternoon in imitation of history. Love before and love after. If God approved of His creation. He brought the painted clay-model to life. By signing His own name. Flesh and the writing table. Writing of love and finding it.

  • The Aunt: This is a book written a long time ago. It is called The Pillow Book and written by a lady who has the same first name as you - Nagiko. When you are twenty-eight years old this book will be exactly a thousand years old. Think of that.