Xia Yu, cicadas, campus, two lonely hearts, a fruitless love,
Like "The Dancing Girl of Izu", the hazy love that hasn't started yet has ended,
In addition, Xin Haicheng 's consistent themes of "misunderstanding, distance, longing, and the closeness of two hearts" ,
This tragic and pure love animated film "The Garden of Words" is composed .
Xin Haicheng's name is known to Chinese audiences along with the popular movie "Your Name".
But for seasoned new fans, classic movies such as "Your Name" can be said casually.
Among them, the evaluation of "The Garden of Words" is not all one-sided praise.
Excessive texture but insufficient connotation has always been a shortcoming of Makoto Shinkai, and "The Garden of Words" seems to have magnified this weakness a lot.
The length of the movie is only 46 minutes.
It tells the story of a 15-year-old high school student and a 27-year-old female teacher who met by chance in the rain, fell in love with each other, but did not get together in the end.
The plot is simple to the point of being thin.
The common opinion, the heroine of this film,
Unlike the heroine in the previous works, the character is not complete and unified, but it appears chaotic and even contradictory.
The relationship between her and the male protagonist is more ambiguous than pure love.
The heroine's indecisive and hesitant image features make the whole story far-fetched to rely on narration!
However, I personally think that this is a typical Shinkai-style movie!
Regarding the theme of pure love, Makoto Shinkai has long been familiar with it.
He is so familiar with this subject that he is as smooth as he controls the texture of the picture.
It is impossible not to know the disadvantages of one's own narrative, and even less likely to deliberately magnify one's own disadvantages.
What is pure love, pure love itself is a kind of hazy, a hint, a kind of implicit, straight and natural, that is the world of adults .
And this film, it is the most vivid and vivid expression of the "subtle" of the Japanese and even the Orientals!
1. Implicit, is to stop talking!
The oriental people's implicit emphasis on "do not say everything" , and do not express emotions, can only have an aftertaste of beauty.
01
The first love of a young man is strong and uneasy,
The moment he realized that he was in love with Yukino,
Qiuyue also immediately worried that she might be wishful thinking.
"For her, fifteen-year-old me is just a child."
In her eyes, Qiuyue may just be a child,
But in Qiuyue's eyes? Yukino is not only an adult who is bigger than himself,
It is a woman full of mysterious charm, a woman who she wants to get close to.
This layer of meaning is not clearly stated in the film, but the audience has already understood it at a glance.
02
As an adult, it is impossible for Yukino not to feel Qiuyue's admiration,
It is precisely because she is an adult that Xueye knows well about the doomed ending between the two.
She has long been determined to leave here, but she has never been determined to tell Qiuyue.
When Qiuyue took the initiative to confess to her, Yukino realized that it was time to make a break.
When a person is in a hurry to make a statement, he often does not hesitate to say the most ruthless and stinging words of the other party.
So Yukino said, "Always train yourself to walk alone, even without shoes"
The meaning behind these words is very clear, even without you, I can go on alone .
But this sentence was something that Yukino couldn't say out of his heart no matter what, and he didn't need to say it again.
2. Implicit, lies in the details of the side branches!
The love in "The Garden of Words" appears to be the initiative of the one-sided man from beginning to end.
Qiuyue was the first to be curious, and it was Qiuyue who made up her mind to do something for the other party, and it was Qiuyue who summoned the courage to confess.
The heroine in the movie, although it seems to be leading the emotions of the hero,
However, there has never been a clear statement and progress.
The cowardly and hesitant character and ambiguous attitude make Yukino's image extremely unpleasant.
In my opinion, this is the intention of Xin Haicheng's design .
Implicit emotions, if they are so obvious everywhere, will lose their artistic conception.
But from the details of many sides, how Xueye stepped out of the haze and approached Qiuyue step by step,
Xin Haicheng has prompted us to be more obvious!
01
The first few times I met Qiuyue, Yukino was drinking beer , and I explained the reason later.
Because she has a taste disorder due to psychological stress ,
However, when he became more and more familiar with Qiuyue and got closer and closer, Xueye began to drink coffee at this time.
The recovery of the sense of taste is naturally due to the encounter with Qiuyue,
The recovery of the sense of taste also means that Yukino began to slowly get out of the predicament.
And when the sunny weather brought the two to a long-term separation,
Qiuyue's side expresses her heart directly, looking forward to rainy days, looking forward to reunion,
On the side of the reserved and reserved Yukino, he drank beer again .
It not only shows that she is using alcohol to drown her sorrows, but also implies that her condition has started to deteriorate again.
02
People who have been hurt tend to close their hearts,
It is even more difficult to open a closed heart to others, especially to strangers.
When Qiuyue was asleep, Yukino revealed his thoughts to him softly for the first time.
This time, it can also be seen as Xuye's acceptance of Qiuyue 's ice breaking from the heart.
From this moment on, in Xueye's heart, Qiuyue is no longer a stranger.
The second time, when Qiuyue was enough for the snow field,
Xueye looked at Qiuyue and confided the stagnation in his heart directly to him, no longer hesitating, no longer avoiding,
Although Qiuyue's shoes have not yet been made,
But in Xueye's heart, she had already put on the shoes made by Qiuyue and took a brave step .
For the third time, the two reunited with each other whispered in the court,
The sudden heavy rain interrupted the conversation between the two, and the surprised Yukino subconsciously stretched out his right hand to Qiuyue.
This physical closeness implies a spiritual closeness ,
For Qiuyue, Yukino changed from being familiar and trusting to him unconsciously, to relying on him .
At the end of the story, Yukino hugged Qiuyue, who was about to leave, and cried loudly,
It was Qiuyue who gave Yukino the strength to move forward.
At this moment, the two people have completed the exchange of hearts and the intersection of emotions .
When everyone naturally translates "I love you" to "I love you"
However, Natsume Soseki used "Tonight's moonlight is so beautiful" to let everyone realize the beauty of the implicit artistic conception of the Orientals,
And "The Garden of Words" in recent years' love-themed works,
It is probably a film that makes this kind of "subtle" the ultimate!
As far as this is concerned, it is meaningful. Appropriate blank space is a more advanced creation!
On July 19 this year, Makoto Shinkai's new work "Weathering With You" was released in Japan.
I believe that in the near future, Chinese audiences will also be able to see the new ideas and growth in his works!
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