Kaijie Diary: It's Hirokazu-eda's Japanese Healing
If you have watched "The Thief's Family" and then "The Diary of Haijie", you must have such a conjecture in your heart, "The director of these two films should be the same person." Watching these two films, you will feel It's like facing a glass of white water, but when you take a sip, it makes people inadvertently taste it.
The director of these two films is a man named Hirokazu Koeda. In addition to these two, his works also include the famous "Walking On" and "Nobody Knows". The Japanese narrative style that is flat, but sometimes makes waves, and returns to calm, is often more fascinating, as if immersed in the world of the movie, living as a person beside the protagonist.
But Haijie Diary is different from Hirokazu Kore-eda's films in the past, except for his usual Japanese sadness, but for the first time, it gives people a warm feeling of healing.
At the beginning of the movie, the young woman Kano, after sleeping with a man all night, returned to an old house in the early morning. There were two other women in it, one was her elder sister Kada Yuki, and the other was her younger sister Chika. Afterwards, from the details, the movie depicts for us a cryptic but profound three sisters who seem to be warm, but are full of their own scars, but do not talk to each other.
Japanese directors have a natural affinity for such imperfections in life. Japanese society always advocates not causing trouble for others. In fact, there is a deeper meaning under this meaning. The idea of unlimited responsibility has also led to many mistakes that Japan has made towards people, which can be tolerated and forgiven by human nature. However, the pain caused by these mistakes is unavoidable. Such Japanese people, with a good understanding of others, can't transfer their pain to others with peace of mind, so they learn to look for those small and subtle in their unhappy lives. Warm, let them tell themselves that life is worth it. As a result, many relationships have been created that people in the world seem unable to understand or even criticize, but they ignore the more unfortunate past behind these abnormal relationships. Each of us has our own pain, and therefore our own life.
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The arrival of the fourth sister Asano-chan is actually to fill the last vacancy for the three sisters. Although it seems that they are still four children who have been hurt by the family, the eldest sister has experienced the father's first family, and the second sister has witnessed the second. The separation of the family, the third sister went through the bitterness after the three left their father, and the fourth sister was the only one who was accompanied by her father from childhood to adulthood. It is also such a special life experience. The elder sister takes care of them, and the more they look, the more they look like the shadow of their father. For them, the appearance of the younger sister is more like a piece of the father's soul, and they, who have never known their father, are also fortunate to be able to use such a way to get to know my father and fill the vacancy in my life. The kind of sun-like warmth that was brought up by their father's complete care is more reliable and true than the connection they reluctantly built through strength and mutual pity.
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The quarrel between the three sisters, the second sister, who is most eager for love and lacks love the most, after being dumped by her boyfriend again, was used to it in her previous life. Usually, she would only silently serve her when she saw this scene. The eldest sister who had packed up the crooked wine bottle seemed to be used to saying this time, "I must have been dumped again." Said one more thing to the fourth sister: "If you have troubles, say it."
A person's life is a complicated story. Those who are always happy are always gifts, and everyone's life is unsatisfactory. However, most people in the world are only struggling in this kind of life. But never thought to change. This sentence "If you have troubles, say it." It is also a change that every sister in the family, including herself, expected, but did not have the courage to make. At this moment, in fact, the lives of the four of them have begun to ripple slowly from the stagnant water in the past.
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"Because, I want to drink the wine at home."
As usual, the eldest sister came home and saw someone in the family was drunk, but this time it was not the three older sisters, but the new younger sister, and listening to the younger sister complaining about her father, the three older sisters were at this time. I finally understood, it turned out that Dad didn't just make them feel sad. And at this moment, the three older sisters who finally understood the pain of the little sister have officially become sisters in the true sense with the little sister.
At the end of the movie, the second sister complained that the eldest sister fell in love with a doctor with a wife, and the eldest sister replied angrily: "Don't comment if you don't understand anything." Then, the eldest sister left angrily, while the second and third sisters stayed Silent, situations like this have happened to each other many times. According to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s previous narrative division, it may be more of a close-up of the eldest sister accompanied by long shots, as well as a slow-motion description of the second sister’s slow-motion movement mixed with low and gentle background music. And the development of the movie will also return to the reconciliation between the two, but it seems that it always makes people feel a pain in their hearts, which is exactly the feeling of Japanese sadness.
But this time it was different. It was Hirokazu Koreeda who pulled the four together through his younger sister. With the strongest plum wine in the house, the four finally revealed each other completely. In the end, the four of them were at the seaside, looking at the sea, looking at each other, smiling at each other, with the corners of their mouths in front of the screen.
"Sea Street Diary" is not so much another work by Hirokazu Koreeda that is full of personal style, but rather a gift with a little heart for those who like him. Like a box of slightly bitter but always sweet dark chocolate for everyone who has seen his movies. Before the turn of the movie, he has been narrating the sadness and ups and downs of life for everyone. He will add some small changes to the unfortunate life in the world, and make that kind of life no longer so unfortunate. . This is also Hirokazu-eda, who gives people the warmest warmth.
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