Why You Need To Go: If you love The Pianist at Sea, you should watch this movie too, because they are written by the same person.
Title: "Silk"
Director: Francois Gerard
Original Author: Alessandro Barrico
Starring: Keira Knightley, Michael Pitt, Koji Yakusho, Miki Nakatani
Production time: 2007
Reader: The girl in the Singer Hot Spring of the Stone Garden
, with black hair like silk, and butterfly bones as majestic as wings.
Then she turned her face, her eyes were not oriental, her face was that of a young girl.
In fact her beauty is not so much functional as it is conceptual.
So, in that man's nostalgia for her, it is better to say that she is an image rather than a woman
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she represents the secrets, taboos, and deep admiration in his life. Dark snowy nights, and the ocean.
The story goes that a newly married French man had to travel far and wide to buy silkworm seeds in Japan because of a silkworm disease that spread widely in Europe.
In the mansion of the shogunate noble Yuan Qing, he met Yuan Qing's favorite concubine and fell in love with her.
After that, he traveled year after year, always kissing his wife goodbye in the semi-bright morning, crossing the entire Eurasian continent with the enthusiasm of a lover, to meet the girl.
And there was no love or even a conversation between him and her.
But I know what hit him.
Japan in the 1860s, the last shogunate ruled, a country with a closed door, closed, dark, silent, and inexplicable.
And in the midst of all this occlusion, darkness, silence and indescribable state, at the end of this world, the girl is like a still life, and every movement is full of ritual, strange and natural.
For a man who is not afraid of lonely journeys, oceans, wind and snow, and swords, it is almost fate that he will fall in love with her.
It's nature, it's not about loyalty.
The focus of the story is actually in the second half
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the man who hasn't set foot in Japan since the start of the fallout movement is unhappy all day long. Suddenly
one day he received a letter from Japan, the letter said, "My master, for your happiness, please forget me." It was not until after his wife's death that the man knew that this mournful but warm love letter actually came from his wife. She loves him, and she is silent until her death. Alessandro Barrico has never lacked forbearance love. Remember, in "The Pianist at Sea", how 1900 looked for the girl he fell in love with at first sight in the crowded cabin, and leaned over to kiss her face in the dark? Sometimes I wonder, is Barico really an Italian? Why does his protagonist always fall in love like an oriental person, love silently, deeply, and elegantly, with thousands of twists and turns happening inside. "Silk" is about red roses and white roses in a man's life. The white rose is far away from Guanshan, and it is his secret and unreachable plea. The red rose is close at hand, which is the alarm and regret of his awakening from his big dream. It was love that turned corruption into magic, which prevented his red and white roses from becoming the blood of mosquitoes on the wall and the white rice on the corner of his mouth at the same time. However, the cruelty of the passing of time is that no matter how good the love will pass, everything will pass, including ourselves. And all this man can do for the rest of his life is to start from the steaming hot spring in the snow, from the tender and smooth skin of an oriental girl, and tell others this story about how he has loved and been loved. . The cast of the movie is gorgeous and worth mentioning. Miki Nakatani and Hiroshi Yakusho are both outstanding actors of the Mesozoic generation in the Japanese entertainment industry. The interpretation of the roles is quite elegant and very classic.
Although Keira Knightley is not an impeccable beauty, with a new version of "Pride and Prejudice", she has now become the best choice for the endorsement of classical European style.
There is also the actor Michael Pitt. I liked his "Dream of Paris" a few years ago.
The ending of the film is very moving, and I didn’t see how provocative it was, but it was really like a tear gas bomb
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in the quiet afternoon, the lilies in the forest were in full bloom, and the golden light of the sun was quietly sprinkled, and the light felt like a lifetime. .
At this moment, his wife's voice sounded outside the painting, reading the letter, "My master, don't be afraid, don't move, don't talk, close your eyes, and for your happiness, please forget me."
Oh, love is the end of the world. Love is a cold wonderland. Love is enduring patience and kindness.
2008-3-22
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