"Passing through the long tunnel on the county border is the snow country. Under the night sky, the earth
is white , and the train stops in front of the signal station." Kawabata Yasunari Subai's concise text, many years ago A quiet night, let my heart feel at peace in an instant. The Qingling Snow Snow from the Snow Country carries the deep and shallow material sorrow and Zen, silently falling on the tip of his heart, and quietly sinking into the depths with time.
When the long piano sounded and the film opened, "The Encampmentist" once again brought me into the feeling of loneliness and emptiness with the same short and delicate lines:
"The winter I felt when I was a child was not so cold. I returned from Tokyo to Yamagata. It's been almost two months in the countryside, and in retrospect, every day has been ordinary and extraordinary." It was
clean and white, and the snow was peaceful.
【Second · Zen】
Japan’s feelings and experiences of things are rich and delicate. The cherry blossoms must be enjoyed in early spring in the early spring, the tea ceremony must be carefully milled and brewed to be tasted, and the puffer fish must be cut with a delicate knife into transparent slices that can see the pattern of the container underneath. Japanese cuisine with distinctive characteristics pays special attention to the taste of the ingredients themselves, trying to keep their protoplasm fresh. For example, in the film, the president and Da Wu, after remembering their dead wife, tasted the white of the puffer fish together. It was fresh, with only a little salt, and it was embarrassingly delicious.
This Japanese-style life attitude reveals their respect for the essence of things.
This attitude also runs through the narrative process of "The Encouragement Master". The color of the whole film is simple and elegant, fixed lenses are mostly used, and there are few difficult and inexplicable monologues. It pays attention to the details of the expressions and movements of the characters. The music and the lens are implicitly grasped, and even many scenes have erased the music accompaniment.
Quiet protoplasmic sounds and pictures, restrained and reserved, don't render the sad atmosphere too much, stop there.
And this kind of sober narrative that has stripped away other and complicated things, this kind of respect for the essence of the story, placed in the film, reflects the respect for life——
Between life and death, between sorrow, and between all things, keep a safe distance from each other, winding around, shallow and shallow, not being playful because of being close, and not being indifferent because of distance. Wisdom grasps the distance between Daoqing and Unexplainable.
This gentle and slow state, unconsciously, has penetrated into the viewer's mind.
That is Zen.
Therefore, this film is safe and restrained.
Therefore, these parting pains are gentle.
Implicit and quiet Zen. In an instant, freeze frame forever.
【三·Solo Trip】
Independence is a state of life.
I remember someone said that Japan is always afraid of building too close relationships with others. This way of life, to some extent, also comes from their understanding of loneliness.
The cultural essence of the ancient Chinese was passed to Japan, and it has been well preserved and carried forward, like the thought of a journey in silence. I cherish the song of Chu and weep, the shadow is alone, the night is cold, I miss the lingering heaven and the earth, but I shed tears.
In "Encouragement", everyone walks alone on their own journey.
Life has no roots, and floats like dust on the moss. His father rebelled, his mother passed away, the band was disbanded, and his wife was the only one who left him for a while. Dawu swallowed countless nights in his life alone. The wife parted and left no children. The president buried the loneliness and loneliness in his heart, and personally sent the beloved woman away from his life. I spent the last Christmas alone, illuminating the single figure with candlelight, but couldn't find the sadness on the family's face after the parting. The lady proprietor of the bathhouse just closed her eyes quietly, and she walked away quietly.
On the deserted pavilion at sunset, there are many leisurely travels and thoughts. The janitor of the funeral home sent one person after another to leave the world alone, saying to these spirits, be careful on the road, and you will always see you again. The journey of life was originally composed of countless farewells. Everyone has been saying goodbye to the characters in the world since the moment they came into the world.
The living is a passer-by, and the dead is a returnee. For decades, it's just a quick glance.
Dawu is a person who knows independence. As the lady in the bathhouse said, "I'm a gentle child who bears everything alone... I can cry even when I am alone, with a small body and trembling shoulders." On the lonely life, he tried to grasp all the light and warmth that made him feel not lonely, but the perishable pain caused him to fall repeatedly. He restrained himself in loneliness, and was also firmly bound by loneliness.
To become an enlightenment teacher means that he has to face death at close range, face Huruji's life at close range, and experience the meaning of life at close range. Those who died for a living left a deep meaning, left to relatives and friends, but also to the enlightenment as the enlightenment teacher. Contradictions, disputes, misunderstandings, hatred, sadness, gathering and dispersal... Everything is buried silently and forcefully by death, and everything is insignificantly light in front of death. No one will be broken and annihilated for whom, and no one will have to be scattered for whom. In the journey of life alone, nothing can be left except memory.
The enlightenment who became the enlightenment teacher became compassionate and strong. When he was alone, it was no longer the kind of helpless loneliness that appeared in his eyes. He is no longer the child who will helplessly bury his head in the arms of his wife and ask for warmth. He will be helpless and painful because of his father's abandonment for a long time.
One person eating bread to the night, one person driving a car and eating lunch, one person playing the violin, one person sending everyone away peacefully... These stories about one person begin to become so natural. Dawu's eyes are no longer alone.
Thank you for the songs you have heard, the roads you have traveled, the people you have loved, and the things you have experienced in this alone journey.
Even if everything is incomplete, even if everything is not complete, let the road alone become no longer lonely.
Since then, I am no longer afraid of being alone, and walk calmly and calmly on this road.
[Wang·Image]
Because they understand the meaning of independence, the Japanese always implicitly deal with the relationship between people in a way that can be called "light love". They express restraint in each other's expressions and use polite words.
Their subtlety makes them accustomed to concentrating on things, and they are very sensitive to the seasons, weather, and details of things, so they have a variety of far-reaching images that penetrate into far-reaching meanings.
Snow is the image that first appeared in the film.
The Japanese archipelago is affected by the regularity of the monsoon. Winter and summer are long, and winter is often snowy. White and pure snow often appears as an image in Japanese movies. For example, the snow of the horror dance in "The Railwayman", the snow of the forest in the "Love Letter", and the snow of the first sun in "Snow Snow". The film gave Xue their lives, and Xue also rendered the progress of the plot step by step.
The beginning of the film "Encouragement Division" is when Dawu drove on the snowy road. The flying snowflakes make the road ahead indistinct and difficult to find, boundless and dead, with a slight sense of security. In this snow, we walked into the film, and also walked into the world constructed by stories and characters. With the development of the film, the snow outside the car window gradually stopped. Outside the window is no longer a raging blizzard, but a calm snowfield under the sun, welcoming the arrival of spring.
In the snowfall, not only the four seasons but also the world is changed.
The cello is an image throughout the movie.
The first person to make a violin must be someone who is deeply emotional. He used the lines and curves of a woman's back to design the violin. When the player embraced the violin in his arms and slowly played the tune with a gentle nod, the warmth overflowed.
When Dawu gets involved in the memories of the past, he thinks of playing the cello. Dawu has practiced the cello at the request of his father since he was a child. With a small body, he took on the cello which was bigger than himself at the time, and also took up the constraints and pressure of life on him. Who will play this piano for? For the father? For the orchestra? Or for your own life that is difficult to discern the way forward? Dawu at that time always bound himself too tightly, so playing the violin always brought that kind of bondage and restraint at the beginning. In the huge orchestra, he is like a tight string, always alert to his own pace. His music is as unwilling as his life. The band's dissolution of this sudden disorder caused him to lose his way in an instant.
But as Da Wu grew up, his expression and posture playing the violin became more relaxed and confident. In the snow, in the grassland, in the dark night, he was finally free, and he began to play for himself, for life, for nature, and for the world. Such a melody has a life that truly belongs to him.
Small stones are an important image used in the film to sensationalize. Finding out the old violin and the hiding of the old time, the hand of arrogant enlightenment was sent into the hand of his wife, and the hand held by the father since his death slipped off, so everything is self-evident.
The metaphorical montage of the swan appeared on the night when Dawu played the violin, and also appeared after the cremation of the proprietress in the bathhouse. The image was noble and holy.
The fish "work hard for death" upstream under the stone bridge creates a profound meaning in the simple picture.
...The
film has become fuller with various images.
Imagery is a quiet and poetic sound. everywhere.
Various silent voices respond to each other in eternal freedom, beyond the narrative, beyond the life and death.
[Wu·Carei]
The Japanese culture that contemplates things pursues romantic sorrows in elegant drowsiness. Although the "sorrow" culture based on "truth" has the "sorrow" at the level of natural objects, the "sorrow" related to the world and the "sorrow" of people are closely related to life.
While watching "The Enemy", I happened to encounter the words of Xixi.
In "A Woman Like Me", she also tells a story about the victim. With her own skills, the woman in the story creates the "most peaceful dead" in the world lonely and alone, making the dead face calm, as if "death is really the best rest". In front of her boyfriend, she always concealed her career. The sunshine-like boyfriend brings sunshine into her world and to her side. But even so, she still couldn't touch the sun. Because she had already been suffocated quickly by her cold inner monologue.
Looking at him, she was always thinking in pain: "When her hands touch his skin, will they remind him that this is actually a pair of hands that caress the dead for a long time."
She shut herself in hard. The loneliness of detachment, loneliness like a cold plain.
But everything is just myself, I care too much
Putting these two similar experiences together, I seem to understand Mika, and she said to Daigo, "Don't you feel ashamed?" "I'm really sad", and even shouted "dirty" The painful struggle in these words.
That kind of death close to the skin is so cold and terrifying, like a cold wind that can swallow people in an instant. She cares, not only about herself, but also the enlightenment. How can one not care if his own man is so close to death, close to the cold and terrified corpse?
Because you care, you care, even if you care sometimes, it may be labeled as unreasonable.
Dawu chose to face Meixiang's concern with silence.
Because he understands that kind of fear. In the days when he first came into contact with the dead, he was so panicked, he had to hug and touch Meixiang hard to feel the living warmth. So he knows Meixiang cares.
But when Mika walked to the station alone, Da Wu was not born to stay, and did not make any chase or explanation. He just sat silently on the tatami, watching his beloved woman sink into his small cave sadly amidst her inner entanglement.
Dawu's silence doesn't mean that he doesn't care, he just understands that many times, explanations and words are so pale and weak. In many cases, I just can't convince myself. Each reason always has its own reason, but when reason and reason are put together, they are contradictory. So when all the reasons can't be used in my mind, I can only give everything to time. Let time lubricate the surfaces of two things that are so rough that they rub against each other harshly, and bring everything to peace.
From struggling to understanding, from minding to relief, from the me who was once to who I am now, from who you are now to who you are later...Mika, who is relieved, has finally walked that distance.
I hand you over to time because I believe that you can cross the distance that you have constructed, and because I believe that various distances are actually not distances, they are just blank spaces, allowing the heart to have room for maneuvering.
So, I stay alone, waiting for you.
【Lu Li Shi】
At the scene of the death, Dawu, with respect and gentle emotions, used calm and accurate techniques to complete all procedures, so that the already cold people will be reborn, and the independent parting life will have his eternal beauty in the last scene. . Quietness, tranquility, accompanied by his own low breathing, everything around him is so slow that he forgets time.
Time accompanies the flow of the world, passing across the shoulders of every tombstone, leaving the same mark. Life is over, but death can be a gentle farewell. "Death may be a door. Passing away is not the end, but transcendence, to the next journey, just like a door." The heart of the deceased stopped crying, and life quietly passed away instead of withering, but with the pain of the living. Turned into a permanent guardian in memory.
May the death be quiet,
may the deceased be safe, and
may the memories left be turned into the sunshine all over the ground, and all the pains will be quietly warmed and dried.
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