Kamakura, which is filled with seawater moisture, crosses the city's red single-car train and turns into a cherry blossom tunnel that meets the sea.
The beautiful scenery in "Sea Street Diary" can be directly promoted as a city propaganda film, not to mention the pictures of four girls wearing kimonos playing fireworks and chasing waves by the sea in black silk. Beauty is the warmest thing in this world. The gentle and determined sister Xing, the lively and strong second sister, the carefree third sister, and the early-witted and kind sister Ling, every frame of the four sisters in "Haijie Diary" The pictures are all beautiful, the days go by, the sun rises and sets, the flowers bloom and wither, life can be so ordinary and has no special meaning, but it is special because of a memory, in the special ceremonies of each season, In the beautiful clothes, the food that carries the memory, the window paper pasted together, and the fireworks and cherry blossoms that fill the eyes. Who really needs a rough life? Plain guardianship and each other's greetings are the most romantic days. After understanding these, even if the world is boring, you can keep a soft heart. about father In Kamakura, a small town in Kanagawa Prefecture, three sisters who were abandoned by their divorced parents lived a life of mutual dependence. Their father left them for the sake of a third party. One day 15 years later, they received the news of their father's death, so they were attending their father's funeral. At that time, they met their half-sister Ling, so they brought the little sister Ling, whom they hadn't seen in 15 years, to go home and live together in the ancestral house left by their grandmother. Some movies are thrilling to remind you that it's a movie, and some movies are bland to tell you that this is life. "Haijie Diary" is such a film, with its own meaning of the passage of life and the lingering of time. The father who has not seen him for fifteen years, a dish from twenty years ago, and the plum tree from fifty-five years ago, they have been preserved by means of a certain unique form of memory, entrusting the later generations with their longing and nostalgia for their ancestors. How to deal with the scars left by "the previous generation"? forgive? Hate? understand? forget? According to the understanding of domestic dramas, they will be made into TV dramas with at least 30 episodes, while "Haijie Diary" basically erases the responsibility of the lens of social moral criticism, and it is more handled from a mild bystander perspective. In the past, the impression of the father's generation was blurred, and the four sisters' daily narration was used to seek healing. The father who never appeared in the film was the one who connected all the key points. There is always a subtle connection between fathers and daughters, and the shadow of the father is always seen in the daughter. The eldest sister, Yuki (played by Ayase Haruka), is sensible early and has completely witnessed the quarrel and parting of her parents. She hated her father's unsympathetic departure, and also hated her mother's selfish disregard. She did what her parents should do with stubbornness and persistence. She alone took up the responsibility of taking care of the family, but she was extremely vulnerable and eager to find her. When relying on herself, although she reminds herself not to be irresponsible like these two people, she ironically falls in love with a married man, and in the end she falls in love with a cowardly and heartless pediatrician who looks the same. Not handsome, but he has the temperament of a mature man in his gestures and looks quite reliable. As a de facto third party, she endured the bite of her conscience, paid silently, and had a religious forbearance. The sense of responsibility was greater than her own enjoyment. This responsibility and burden was left to her by her parents.
The second child Naika (played by Nagasawa Masami) is very simple in nature. In her growing experience, due to the absence of her father, she only knew that her parents were quarreling when she was young, and she saw her sister comforting her mother. These painful memories of childhood made her only want to be an adult. Freedom, happiness, and unburdened companionship are good. It makes it difficult for her to have a cognition of what a good man is, and it seems that she has not established the concept of home and the standard of mate selection. Because no one taught her what a good man should be like. For the second sister, the eldest sister is the only person she hopes to be happy. The third sister Qianjia (played by Xia Fan) is so non-mainstream, yet with the innocence of a child, the youngest Qianjia has the most vague impression of her father, but also the most curious. She likes fishing, and plays with her fishing rods at home. When Ling mentioned that her father also likes fishing, Qianjia's expression was like a child's excited expression - it turns out that my father and I are very similar in this point, she does not have the feeling of his father's substitution , but longing for an object of adoration, she fell in love with the store manager who had an odd six-toed missing, and was very proud of his feat of climbing Mount Everest. For the three sisters, they all seem to have a relatively large handicap influence on men, which of course comes from the father who has been absent for "15 years". Therefore, at the funeral of my father, the fourth sister Ling (Rei Hirose) suddenly appeared, and she brought shock and comfort to the sisters. Because Rei Asano has almost a complete memory of his father for fifteen years, these are the times when the three sisters and their father have no news. This is an almost perfect image of a girl. She may have inherited her father's kind personality and passion for sports, and carried all the love and responsibility of her father for her daughter. Her father would make sardine toast for her and take her to go fishing. He never missed all the most critical periods of her growth. Therefore, when the three sisters accepted the younger sister into the old house, they also accepted the "father" from another angle. The return of the character. Maybe it was out of sympathy that the three sisters brought her to Kamakura, but slowly, I felt that the presence of the little sister made the family feel more whole and the atmosphere more intimate. The eldest sister is no longer just as strict as a mother, the second sister has more sense of responsibility, and the third sister's role as a peacemaker has also increased. In the hearts of the three of them, the father was just a vague impression of "tenderness", and for the first time it became a concrete existence - "Although my father is not reliable, he should be a very gentle person, so he left us with such a good sister." about family Family members, even though everyone is holding on to the pain, they firmly hold each other's hands. And this kind of "family" sense of life is everywhere in "Haijie Diary". It does not have the dramatic stories of dramas and movies, but through very simple dialogues and behaviors, it brings you The intimate sense of life in watching movies. I especially remember a scene. After the eldest sister Yukio and the second sister Kano had a fierce choking quarrel, the second sister Kano was scrambling to take a shower and saw a cockroach, and then the camera turned to the other three sisters in the living room. At this time, Kano was hoarse in the toilet. Calling "sister", and the boss is fortunately rolled up a magazine calmly and unhurriedly, and said "it's not a child anymore", this sense of life blows. The director is Hirokazu Koreeda who can always find some details as a token of introduction. Family affection in this movie is like my father's sardine rice bowl, which makes Ling unforgettable; it is also like my grandmother's aged plum wine, which became a gift when I was fortunate enough to bid farewell to my mother. The third sister, Qianjia, made a fish steak and seafood rice dish made by grandma for the little sister. If you are not very close, how can you make food that she is not good at for the other party? The eldest sister gave a small flower arrangement in front of the Buddhist altar, a daffodil, or a bunch of red fruits, which must have been picked by the eldest sister from the courtyard, and every time these subtle and small plots are scattered in the film, they piece together the childhood of the four sisters Time, subtle movements often lead to huge waves, but the narrative is still calm, and the delicate emotions are hidden in the hearts of the characters, which are tactfully expressed through the details in the plot. Another impressive plot is in the doctor's apartment. When the doctor asked the eldest sister why she didn't buy a pair of chopsticks, the eldest sister fortunately replied that "it's very difficult for women to buy chopsticks". At that time, I hadn't reacted yet. In fact, this dialogue was about her inner entanglement. Buying a pair of chopsticks for a family requires an identity. Fortunately, the doctor's family does not have the identity of "buying chopsticks". It's just a third party, so she said that. The blank space without explanation is an explanation for the audience. It also expresses the understanding of "family" from another angle. It is this kind of restraint and subtlety. the emotional level of the character. As an intruder, Simeiling has always been cautious about the family's acceptance, but the three sisters are too warm to her, which makes her already guilty and confused heart more sensitive and uneasy. The entanglements of the previous generation made her ruthless Confused and helpless, but fortunately the whole movie is unusually calm, and the pictures are beautiful. This beautiful and hopeful life makes Ling gradually calm down. At the end, there is a scene where Ling goes home in the rain after playing football with the boy and takes a bath. When I looked down, I stretched out the bath towel to blow the fan in the courtyard hall, and was hugged by my eldest sister fortunately beside me. Resentment, at that moment Ling suddenly ran away with a smile. At that moment, this scene showed that Ling completely let go of herself and accepted that she was a part of this family. Whether it is the cherry blossom tunnel or the fireworks festival in the film, many shots have left a deep impression. In general, this film brings a full of "girly feelings", but the two funerals at the beginning and the end push this dreamy feeling to real life, connecting the thinking of life with life. Just like cherry blossoms and fireworks, the beautiful youth is fleeting, and the present world is more worthy of cherishing. Putting the best and the cruelest in the same space brings not sadness, but reality. Nearly 2 hours of movie, a courtyard, a small town, the rainy season in spring, cherry blossoms in summer, maple leaves covered with paths in autumn, four girls on the beach noisy with each other, a simple but warm story, Haijie Journal.
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