I watch very few Japanese movies. Aside from Akira Kurosawa's films, just from "The Taste of Chengsha" and "Love Letter", I feel that Japanese movies have a very unique temperament, which seems to be the kind of elegant red bean paste in "The Taste of Chengsha" and tightness. When watching a movie with a relaxed public mentality, we often admire the meticulous, grand and profound, preferring firm will and strong conflict, but slowness, smallness, and warmth have the same moving power. This kind of power does not require me to push myself by adding some requirements for the study of drama literature before watching it. I can feel it just with a simple and relaxed audience mentality. "The Taste of Sand" is particularly "subtle". The plot can be summed up in a few sentences. It is even a bit like a small story in a magazine. Many key parts of the narrative are written in one stroke, and there is almost no atmosphere of commercialization and genre films. , simple and clear. The themes lack depth, and the characters don't stand out in their craftsmanship. But there is a whole world of aesthetics in it. Make a promise with the moon, and comfort the beans to work hard, "Last night, the breeze came in and blew through the holly fence, as if to say to me, I should contact you"... It's like my new pink lisianthus flower Gentle, romantic and poetic. But the master of this aesthetic world is so frail and senile - the film does not unnecessarily render this conflict, which is itself a rare aesthetic gesture. I hope that all people who experience disease, aging, pain, prejudice can have such a complete aesthetic world. It doesn't matter if you don't. Whatever the world, a modest aesthetic gesture may be more important. I love the gentleness revealed in the film. Even for the rumors, malice, and rejection in the film, the film does not stand on a high ground. It is more like the low-camera shot of the store manager walking up the steps in the dark, full of tranquility and compassion. When it comes to audio-visual, I can clearly feel that the image is "flowing". The shaking of the camera lens is very natural; the authorship and design sense are not very strong, I rarely like works in this audio-visual style, but I just like "The Taste of Chengsha" very much. Just don't watch it at midnight, though. I'll be hungry, it's true.
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