"All About Lily Week", also known as "The Cardamom Age".
Movies from many years ago have been watched many times before. The afternoon passed very long, and the cold sunlight fell from the balcony into a person's bedroom. Facing the computer, I suddenly wanted to listen to the original sound of this movie again, so I played it for a long, long time.
The pains of adolescence seem like flowers growing on wounds, leaving dazzling scars after beauty. The teenagers in the movie are, and maybe so are we.
The weather has become very cold recently, but it is fine on a sunny day with a deep sky. When I think of the colors in the movie, they are always strong and bright. Behind the boy, I feel lonely.
But it is the most cruel of all Iwai films. Its cruelty is unknowingly, slowly seeping into adolescence, and even the whole life. Just like the desperate eyes of a teenager, he used a knife that pierced through a green apple to end this endless pain. It is also this dream-like youth.
I have written before, I like that young man with clean eyes and his silent shyness. In the poster of the movie, the teenager leans back against the corridor, looking at his heart in the sunset, what else can be discarded, walking at a crossroad, looking at the darkening sky in the distance. Like youth, before it can fly, it falls with the ideal. With broken wings.
Today, the days of cardamom are long gone. Sometimes in the middle of the night, I often remember when I was young, the old fan made a low roar on a sultry summer night. It's just that all this is now stuck in memory with all the restlessness and restlessness of adolescence. In the blink of an eye, when I saw the young face passing by, I realized that what I once had was the sadness of a whole adolescence, and I gradually became helpless in the unwillingness of reality.
The original has gone away, and no longer look back.
Feb.21th 2005
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