next stop, heaven

Sharon 2022-03-25 09:01:19

#ying# "Next Station, Heaven" and "ワンダフルライフ" 7/10

people died and will stay in one place for seven days. The staff will help you slowly reminisce about your life, and then you have to pick out the most precious moments, and they will try their best to help you recreate them, and when they broadcast in the warm screening room on Sunday, you will disappear before you know it. In the paradise of happiness and happiness chosen by themselves...

Most people still enjoy these seven days, accepting the end of life calmly, immersed in memories and happily completing the last "task" in the world. The director mixes actors and ordinary people to recall their real lives. The unpretentious mortals recite the ordinary days, like lying on the yellow leaves everywhere in the autumn afternoon. Vitality, vitality in summer, peace of mind in winter...

But there are also people who can't decide even after racking their brains. They go to a bad school, do a big job, and live a life of plain water. At the last step, they are extremely tangled. Have to find evidence of living. Fortunately, there are a lifetime of videos that can be revisited. After watching it, I realize that the partner I turned a blind eye to is the one I miss the most.

People who can't decide, are stuck here, so they become staff until they have their most precious moment. The male protagonist died in his early 20s because of the war. This job lasted for 50 years, because he felt that he had never tried what life should experience, especially not with his beloved girl. nationality. But in the end, by chance, he saw that although his fiancee remarried, the happiest moment left was the scene where the two of them were sitting side by side in the park before he sent troops. , he finally had his happiest moment...

It is Hirokazu Koreeda who is also the director and screenwriter. He is really the only one who can come up with this idea, and really only he can make the border between life and death so peaceful and quiet. However, the trivial conversation and slow rhythm, and even the climax are just small excitement with a little more heartbeat. The restraint will make people distracted and detached from the film and fall into their own thinking. Perhaps this is the mirror effect that the director pursues, but for the audience, it is not Not the best viewing condition. The chosen scene is also a failure. In such a dilapidated guest house, it is necessary to tell the guests that please enjoy the facilities here. It may be that everyone should not linger and decide to go to heaven as soon as possible. It's a good idea. The heroine has a good grasp of the sudden death of youth, but it's a bit too deliberate, especially when it goes rampant on the streets of Tokyo, it makes people feel that it doesn't match the atmosphere of the film. The male protagonist is a bit too dull. Although he wants to express that his 20-year-old body lives with his 70-year-old soul, his body and facial language are too simple, and his eyes have not yet grasped how to retract, which affects the final orgasm. The supporting roles don't have many roles, but they can all be brilliant, but they are not a small highlight.

The moment when those who should go go and those who can't decide to stay and work and find themselves. The curtain fell, the candlelight swayed on the ceiling and pulled out a wonderful pattern, the loved one lay in her arms and did not know when to fall asleep, the fine sweat on her nose danced with the candle shadow, no need to look for it, I was already in the kingdom of heaven...

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After Life quotes

  • Kenji Yamamoto, who wants to forget his past: Say I choose a memory, from when I was eight or ten years old. Then I'll only remember how I felt back then? I'll be able to forget everything else? Really? You can forget? Well, then that really is heaven.