Most of the scenes in the film have no soundtrack, but the key elements are presented and resolved in the soundtrack.
The film has two main motives, the first one appears in the opening song and at the end, it sounds a little lively, a little weird and even humorous, and the second one appears in the scene where the two are physically intertwined at the beginning of the film. It sounds lingering and sad, we will call the former theme A and the latter theme B.
The lively and weird A theme is used as the opening theme of such a great love film. I am afraid it will make people a little puzzled. At the end of the film, the hero and heroine call each other Hiroshima and Neville. But using this A theme as the soundtrack is really unpleasant. However, if we feel that the lingering B theme is quite in line with the mood of the film, we must notice that the basic musical materials used in A theme and B theme are actually the same. The short, jumping melody of ) is a variant of the B theme.
This means that the entire film is actually carried out to prove the A theme, and the B theme is just the process.
The film itself is based on the lingering B theme. In the interweaving of the flesh, the hero and heroine start a dialogue. The hero says, you didn't see anything in Hiroshima, and the heroine says, no, I saw that hospital, why? Can you say I didn't see it? In the sad melody of the B theme, the hospital itself is a symbol, and nothing needs to be said.
Then the flesh is intertwined again, and the male protagonist still says, you didn't see anything.
However, the soundtrack suddenly shifts to a lively, eerie tone that we can consider a derivative of the A theme—the A' theme. Driven by the A' theme, the heroine recounts her museum visit. At first, it seems like a relaxed visit that matches the soundtrack, but soon we are shocked by the lighthearted, abusive soundtrack. Various: fleshy iron lumps, detonators, skin, hair, pictures of mutilations... the remains of Hiroshima.
A brief reappearance of the theme of B: The male protagonist still says, you didn't see anything.
The theme of A' continues, while the theme of B is played with a tragic emphasis by the brass, intertwined with the theme of A'. In the interweaving of the bizarre, lively and tragic and deep, more real and cruel scenes are presented. Ruins, wilderness... However, with the recovery of the land after the catastrophe, a new theme begins to emerge, which we can call the B' theme. The B' theme didn't appear so quickly, the A' theme and the B theme continued to entangle, a nation's humiliation, anger, forgetting, rebirth... The
hero is still resisting: you didn't see anything; the heroine said, No, I also forget, I also have a memory, I also forget, but why deny your memory?
With the heroine's insistence, the B' theme, which symbolizes vitality, finally rises leisurely, like an eternal nursery rhyme, Hiroshima is reborn in the cruel memory.
The B theme reappears, the flesh is intertwined again, and this time the male protagonist is silent, so the B theme - the theme of love and encounter, is like a spring breeze full of memory passing through the streets of this city, the heroine is intoxicated and suffering from this Field encounter.
Then the soundtrack ends, and we come back to reality, and the heroine says, you have such good skin.
The structure of the above soundtrack is: B—A′—A′ & B—B′—A′ & B—B′—
B , His memory is a kind of collective memory, which cannot be borne by the individual, the individual can only be silent, but he is finally moved by the beautiful emotions of a foreign woman, and Hiroshima has been reborn.
However, the memory of the heroine herself remains a mystery: Neville?
The entire film that follows pursues this mystery.
Most of the middle part of the film has no soundtrack, but the B' theme and the B theme still appear several times. The former is used to express the vitality of Hiroshima in reality, and the latter is used to show the heroine's first recollection of the sweetness of her first love.
In this part, the hero gradually uncovers the heroine's memory, the memory of that unfortunate love, through relentless pursuit. The decisive development takes place during a twenty-minute bar chat in which the heroine's recollections continue to emerge, but the recollection scene itself has no voice of its own, no soundtrack, even in the saddest and most intense memories we hear. Still the background music of the bar.
The heroine's darkest memory, without its voice, is like a pale silhouette.
The story continues, and a crucial turning point is about to unfold. The heroine walks alone on the street in the middle of the night, the theme of B, the theme of love, is transformed into a gloomy melody, which is knocked out by the keys. The A' theme reappears, in parallel with the deformed B theme, the heroine wants to forget, is hungry, longs to be swallowed, endures torture and joy, and is almost desperate.
The B theme is out of shape, and it still wins by a slim margin, but it's hardly a victory anymore.
Love and encounter are beautiful, but the former is the slave of memory, it bears too heavy a burden, making the latter a torture and unable to move forward.
The heroine is sitting on a bench at the station, and the hero is sitting on the other side, with an old woman in between.
The heroine unfolds her memories alone, this time first the A' theme comes alive, as if to represent a new possibility, and then the deformed B theme tries to continue its dominance, but soon, the A theme appears for the first time in the film itself Appeared!
The little girl has died in memory, the heroine decides to forget, forget everything tonight, the theme of A is forgetting itself.
In the cafe, a strange man approached the heroine, who bit his lip and looked diagonally across from him. The intervention of the third party seemed to be an excuse, and the hero and heroine jumped out of themselves in the rigid gaze.
At this time, the A theme sounded clearly and completely: the day began to dawn.
The last scene:
the heroine returns to the hotel, the hero follows, the heroine cries: I will forget you!
Hiroshima, Hiroshima is your name.
The male protagonist said, yes, Hiroshima is my name,
(this time the theme of A appears again)
And your name is Neville, Neville in France.
A theme is forgetting, forgetting the name of the individual, thus belonging to a city.
A theme wins.
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