At the beginning of the film, you can see misty sea water and reeds swaying in the wind. Suddenly, it reminded me of "Journey to the West", which is regarded as a love classic. At the beginning, Fairy Zixia supported a small boat and walked slowly through the reeds. Reed seems to have become the representative of tragedy in my mind. So I preconceived that "Untouchable Lover" is also a tragedy. When the camera gradually advanced, and the house of "II Mare" loomed out of the fog, my heart calmed down a little. After all, a house is still different from a ship. The enclosed space, in people's conception, represents stability, privacy, and security.
And I'm going to go into this room and see what's going on inside.
At this point, the film once again exceeded my expectations. The camera focuses on the letterbox in front of the house, making the quaint oriental wooden box look clean and chill behind the blurred background of the house. That scene has been in my mind for a long time. It was a sight that I could see every clean winter morning, but I had never noticed that the beautiful coolness could penetrate so deep into my heart, as if it would freeze tears. I settled down, alright, let's follow the camera through the long aisle to see what's going on in the physical world. As a result, when the camera went to the door, we found that the owner was going to move out of the house.
! Funny, why did the director spend so much time rendering that house? Why even the name of the movie is "II Mare"! With this question in mind, I continued to read.
Due to the subtlety of the director's narrative, the first twenty minutes of the film are not very easy to understand, at least that's what I think. At the time I thought it was a weird movie, why is everything going back and forth? Why did what Kim Eun-shu have already experienced when he arrived at Han Xingxian's place? Is it because everyone around is deceiving? or something else? After 20 minutes of the film, I finally understood the date of the letter between the two. In that letterbox, time is distorted, connecting two different spaces in 1998 and 2000. The reason, I think it is very deep physics, I still don't understand. But the movie, I think I'm starting to see it.
The next thing is the love between the two who communicate with each other. Kim Eun-soo lost her boyfriend and Han Xing-hyun lost her girlfriend. And that mailbox seems to be the "road" arranged by God for them. They cared about each other during the two-year interval. Han Xingxian kept running to the place where Jin Eunshu appeared two years ago, standing by and watching her from a distance, listening to the recordings in her lost MD, teaching her how to make spaghetti, and designing a house for her. There is no intense emotion, there is not much dialogue, everything is performed by the body and the camera. They pass by each other time and time again, and meet each other again and again two years away. This may be the fate of God. In the end, maybe there are really lovers who are married.
But if it's just such a movie, I think it might be moving enough, but not enough to be a classic.
Classic, always sad.
In the movie, there are two episodes that I like the most and feel the deepest.
A plot is a tiny detail. Kim Eun-shu is a cartoon voice actor by profession. When recording the Christmas special program, the director specially used a side close-up to show her puffing out her cheeks and saying "Merry Christmas" cutely to the microphone. And when she got home, no one cared about her except the mall clerk who played Santa Claus, smiling mechanically and saying "Merry Christmas" all the time. She was lying on her bed with the phone open on her pillow, waiting for her boyfriend to call back. At the end, she couldn't bear it anymore. After scolding her boyfriend's photo for a few times, she finally hugged the photo, shed tears, and said "Merry Christmas" to the photo. The pain in my heart at that moment is indescribable.
The other one, which is actually a warm and lovely scene, but speaks to a central point of the first half of the film. They ate spaghetti made in the same way at the same time two years ago. At this time, Jin Eunshu found that he was not as unhappy as he thought, so he understood the sentence "We suffer because of love. continue, not disappear". The first time I heard this, I paused the camera and thought silently. It turns out that we really don't know what love is. True love is to learn to let go.
So I watched this movie over and over again that taught us how to love, this movie that taught us how to let go.
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