Hoshino is a teenage "tyrant". He was Yuichi's classmate and had a friendship when they first met. Hoshino's temperament changed greatly because of a series of incidents in his trip to Okinawa, and he targeted his friend Yuichi from yesterday. He kept trampling on Yuichi's life, viciously destroying all Yuichi's reverie about a better life - he forced Yuichi to desecrate himself again and again in front of everyone, and forced Yuichi's favorite girl, Shiori Tsuda, to help her and cause her death. , instructing his subordinates to insult the intelligent and beautiful goddess Kanda Kuno, who was regarded by Yuichi as an angel, and throwing away Yuichi's tickets at Lily Zhou's concert, making Yuichi and his beloved idols and music missed. Hoshino proves his existence and hides his utter despair as he brazenly destroys other people's lives. Hoshino turned out not to be a cruel person, he was a charming and beautiful boy with beautiful qualities. He is an excellent student of the Kendo club, he has a handsome face, the qualities of a leader, and a mother who is beautiful and young enough to be envied by his classmates. But all this is just a blurry background in Hoshino's life, not the whole truth of his life. All this is not necessarily connected with the virtue of happiness. Hoshino is vulnerable, restless, and sensitive. When he came to Okinawa with Yuichi and a few friends, several accidents and misfortunes during the journey finally distorted the fragile and sensitive Hoshino's humanity. The misfortunes encountered made Hoshino feel that his life was threatened and attacked anytime and anywhere. Fear was full of deep despair, and like a mad dog cornered into a corner, he opened his razor-sharp teeth and prepared to fight back against fate. He became violent and sinister. His cowardice justified his cruelty. He is the maker of unhappy lives for himself and those around him. All the good qualities in him became a curse on him. Hoshino's abuse of reality has made his mind an object of abuse. In despair, loneliness, fear, repentance, and unreasonable intentions, his heart can no longer bear the burden. At the same time, he escaped into Lily Zhou's music and into the emptiness of the online world to find inner comfort and relief. With his torn personality and profound paradox, only death is the best medicine. The ending of death Will bury him with his distorted youth.
Lily Zhou's concert is the day when Yuichi and "Blue Cat" meet together. Lily Zhou's music is their common religion. They become confidants and become a public space for them to place their two lonely hearts. When Yuichi was in the queue to enter the concert, he saw the green apple as a token of meeting in front of the queue and a familiar back, and then he recognized Hoshino. Hoshino greeted Yuichi when he saw Yuichi, shoved the apple into Yuichi's hand, and Yuichi saw "Blue Cat" written on the apple. That's right, Hoshino is the "green cat". At this moment, the world shows an absurd and hideous side. Whoever created a miserable life for himself is the one who comforts and trusts himself, and has the same conversion to Lily Zhou's music. At this moment, Yuichi's spiritual life collapsed on top of the ruins of real life, a huge nameless force was detonated on the ruins of fragmented reality and mind, Yuichi's inner strength was resurrected after the double death of body and mind, he must understand this viciousness ridiculous. When the concert was over, he suddenly screamed wildly in the crowd, "Lily Zhou... Lily Zhou... Lily Zhou..." The crowd thought that the appearance of idols was all rushing in the direction of Yuichi's shouting. Yuichi quietly turned around in the crowd, walked in the other direction of the crowd, walked behind Hoshino step by step, pierced Hoshino's heart with an inconspicuous fruit knife... He left the murder scene in a hurry, In a secluded corner, some trembling hands took out a fruit knife from a coat that stabbed an apple with the word "green hat" written on it, the wet blood smeared on the blade and the blue apple, Hoshino's soul wandered in the blade and blue In the blood of apples. Yuichi's world has become quiet because of Hoshino's disappearance, and all the cruel youth events will become the painful secret of his life. He is a lonely guardian, guarding the secrets in the blood and blood dripping from youth, and in Lily Zhou's music, he mourns for youth and grows up.
In the silent wilderness, Lily Zhou’s coquettish, cold, and wanton voice echoed. Lily Zhou’s music slowly filled the whole world. Yuichi, Shiori, Hoshino and their youthful dead quietly stood and listened. In the empty universe, buried in the emptiness of time.
In this soothing and elegant film, the poetic and dreamlike images are filled with lingering emotions of depression and despair. This is a silent mourning for the lost youth, which was buried in a small town and a Crop fields, hillsides facing the sun... Everywhere there is a silent disappearance of youth, with blood and tears, tiredness and soft sobbing, and there are countless youthful souls floating in the sky. "All About Lily Zhou" is an illustration of the youth philosophy of Shunji Iwai, who has inherited the tradition of life consciousness in Japanese literature. Combining the heavy dance of life and the decisive strength of death in the aphasia of youth, youth is the fire that burns most vigorously in life. If it is not nirvana in the fire, it will become a pile of ashes in the fire.
Yuichi is the protagonist of the film. He faces the world's imperfections and misfortunes with a forbearance. In the depths of his indifferent and tired eyes are the broken images of life. His silence concealed his urge to speak to life, youth, and life, and all the misfortune and humiliation imposed on him transformed into a religious quality in his forbearance. He accepts and endures it all. He used weakness to carry the shame, pain and confusion of a generation of youth. He did not know that he was the chosen one, that the path of the old book was at his feet, and the suffering he experienced or witnessed was a ritual of redemption time after time. In the final ending, it is officially his own hands to make the world a little more complete with the renunciation of death. He committed sin for the world and then crucified himself. What Hoshino embodies is the predicament of human existence. Sadism instead of prayer, pain and shame instead of blessing, is the paradox that individual life and society cannot get rid of. In the dual roles of the abuser and the abused, the personality is split in the psychological struggle, and life cannot be completed. feel. The meaning of existence cannot acquire a nobler meaning in reality, only the degeneration of life can replace the sublimation. The tragedy of "All About Lily Zhou" is not the tragedy of a few young teenagers, but the tragedy of the whole life of the times. Hoshino's final death is the end of the paradox of existence, and the world has become unipolar, clear and transparent. However, the resolute abandonment of life can only be a philosophical assumption of Shunji Iwai, which shows that even if one understands the absurdity and cruelty of fate, who can easily leave this turbulent world. At the end of the film's narrative, Yuichi's mother is pregnant with a child, and in another room that is not in the camera, there is a cry of a new life, and a new paradox begins again. We are the descendants of Sisyphus.
In the film, Shunji Iwai's use of color distribution, background music, and arrangement of different image textures all show his personal aesthetic proposition. In particular, during Yuichi and Hoshino's trip to Okinawa, they used DV shooting techniques from beginning to end. The images are rough, flickering, and sensual, like the contrast effect caused by different textures, so that the double image of Hoshino's dual personalities is extracted. List them together so that the mutation of Hoshino's personality in the narrative can be better implied and supported. This proves the persuasive power of the image itself, and also reveals Shunji Iwai's image claim, another truth behind his aesthetic vision - a means, not the ultimate goal of the film.
The soundtrack of Takeshi Kobayashi, "I see you, yo see me..." over and over again are scattered in the 146 minutes of distress and melancholy. The sadness accumulated bit by bit makes me see the hanging in my heart after escaping from the narrative. A cloudy teardrop dripped, above the head of the youth collective.
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