This year's Beijing Film Festival has a special session with Hirokazu Kore-eda, as well as a director meeting. Eight movies, combo tickets, single tickets, Mao didn't get it... It happened that this movie had a novel, so I took the opportunity to re-watch it. Because of all kinds of messes, I only recently started writing 罒ω罒
I always knew that it was Hirokazu Kore-eda who wrote the script, but I didn't expect him to write novels so well.
Like other films by Hirokazu Shire, this film tells the audience the daily life of the Yokoyama family: it only takes one day to understand a person.
Another feature that is characteristic of Hirokazu-eda is that special deductions are made. The central idea is closely related to the title of the movie. It is better to keep walking, or to be deeper than the sea. But at the same time, the other half of the sentence was hidden.
In another movie "Deeper than the Sea" by Hirokazu Koreeda, co-authoring Teresa Teng's singing, Shu Xilin said the line: I have never loved a person deeper than the sea, and I am not living well.
Is it cruel? It can only be regarded as having a deep understanding of the cruelty of life. You can only see through it.
For "Non-Stop", many of the films played by Hiroshi Abe also pointed out the theme: why do you always take a beat when you keep walking on the road of life?
At the beginning of the film, there are daily scenes such as preparing ingredients and cooking. The mother (Xilin Zhi) and daughter (YOU) are discussing how to make potatoes and radishes; The ex-husband's child, Atsushi (Tanaka Shohei), takes the tram home to visit relatives. Scenes that are too routine can lead people to think that this is the warm tune that is common in Japanese movies.
It wasn't until Ryoda and his stepson Atsushi discussed the dead rabbit at school that the true nature of the story was revealed - it was a story about death.
Atsushi laughed at the classmates who wrote letters to the dead rabbit, because the rabbit couldn't hear their nostalgia at all, which was just superfluous. Atsushi's biological father also died. For Atsushi, who is still in elementary school, death means leaving completely.
Many did not enlighten Atsushi.
"What he lost was not something I could easily understand. So I tried not to touch the topic at the time."
He ran away, just as he chose not to face the impact of the loss on his parents.
The Yokoyama family was shrouded in the shadow of death. Many older brothers, Junpei, drowned 15 years ago while trying to save their drowning children. His career-focused father, Kyouhei (Yoshio Harada), has lost his heir. When Junpei died, he was treating patients with food poisoning. He also lost his only heir.
Fifteen years later, he saw that the boy who had been rescued by many people had grown into a young man full of flesh and blood who couldn't even get a decent job, and he was still resentful.
This resentment has not healed over time.
Just because a person dies, doesn't mean he never exists. He is everywhere.
His father, Gongpei, who had to retire because of glaucoma, lost the backbone of his life in old age. After seeing a patient in the small clinic for more than ten years, he said to the trusting Gongping that he hoped that he could send her away. It is a pity that Gongping, who can no longer be a doctor, can only be pushed aside by the emergency personnel and watch the patient be taken to the hospital to die.
Gongping worked hard all his life, but finally got this result. He missed the chance to see his son one last time and the possibility of doing his last for the patient.
The mother had never worked in her life, gave birth to three children, but found out that her husband had cheated on her. She once took a lot and walked to the door of her mistress's house, where she heard a song "Yokohama under the Blue Street Lights" playing. She listened to this song for fifteen years. While listening, I resented my father and resented that woman.
"Her grief has fermented and rotted over time, and has become a look that even her relatives can't agree with."
The mother also resented the child who was rescued. So, every year for fifteen years, she instructed him that the anniversary of his death in the coming year must come. She knew it was torture for him, so she wanted him to come.
My mother served everyone in this family all her life.
The husband who thought she was not elegant enough cheated on her and sang vulgar love songs in his mistress's house. I have been looking forward to the child's success, but the most promising son died prematurely. She hopes that the second son she loves can move in, but the second son only avoids the problem and does not take responsibility. The mother's emotion in front of Junping's tomb must have expressed the feelings of many people. Why is a small, fragmented life full of waves?
"I didn't do anything bad..."
Many have been suppressed by the outstanding brother since childhood, until his brother passed away. He felt remorse again. With remorse and atmosphere, he left home and wanted to make a career, but he was still stuck at forty.
Many wanted to make their father and mother proud of him, but they couldn't; they promised to go to the ball game with their father, and promised that their mother would let her get in the car they drove, but they never fulfilled the contract until the death of their father and mother.
Years later, another summer, many took the same path with his family to visit the graves of his parents. Back then, my mother muttered to herself while watering her brother Junping's tomb, and many do the same thing now.
Presumably many years later, in another summer, Atsushi will do the same thing. Atsushi also lamented how many times he missed the opportunity to perform filial piety, while watering the tomb and asking a lot if it was cooler.
"Things may just take a different form, a different object, but they keep repeating. It's not an easy-to-understand emotion like happiness or sadness. And because it's so incomprehensible, I think it might be It’s very close to life.”
There is more than just disappointment in the life of constantly missing and constantly losing.
Seeing grandpa and grandma's nostalgia for the deceased, Atsushi understood that those who left did not leave.
When grandpa walks alone, he never walks on the overpass, because the overpass is the sea where the eldest son died. But when the uninformed grandson jumped onto the overpass, he still followed tremblingly and saw the sea again after fifteen years.
It's a film by Hirokazu Koreeda, and the details are handled very, very well.
The tiles that were piled on one side were broken in the bathroom, implying that the parents were unable to live their lives; the mother was just pretending, but did not eat the puffs her daughter-in-law brought as a gift, which showed her dissatisfaction with her daughter-in-law; even if the mother went to visit the grave, She was also dressed up and put on lipstick, which showed her affection for her son. Even the lace on my mother's clothes is particular about it. There is an explanation in the novel that this somewhat abrupt lace was sewn by the mother herself. Ryohei is like a mother.
"No matter how dexterous she is, she can only stay in the field of laymen, and she has not yet reached the professional level that can make a living. And the most embarrassing thing is that even in such a place, I am very much like a mother."
This is not explained in the movie. Only after reading the novel and watching the movie will you find that even the costumes and the director have considered so carefully.
There is another design that makes me think this movie is very suitable to watch against the novel. In the movie, it was explained that the mother knew about her father's affair, and she also brought a lot of songs that she stood in front of her mistress's house and listened to for a long time. The novel is narrated in many tones, and many only remember that his mother took him out to pick up his father, but he did not receive it.
Looking at it this way, many people have actually heard that song, but he has long since forgotten. Moreover, until the death of both parents, many did not know about the father's derailment and the mother's forbearance.
Many of the shots in the film directly point to the topic. The shot of climbing the stairs and the shot of going up the steps mean that everyone’s life will be non-stop.
Mother and father hunched over and shuffled up. At the end of the climb, the stairs are empty.
And that butterfly. Mother told a story about yellow butterflies. Butterflies turn yellow only after surviving the severe cold of winter. Asked who told her mother, she said she had forgotten.
Many took their children to pay homage, saw butterflies, and told the same story. He also forgot who told him the story about the butterfly.
"The butterfly is blown by the sea breeze, and it is not so much that it is fluttering, but that it is flapping its wings desperately so as not to be blown away."
But in the end, the butterfly will eventually be blown away.
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