I am very ashamed to say that I am very ashamed. For a long time, I just watched the famous " love letter". However, since I watched "Flower and Alice" for Yuu Aoi, I began to frantically collect the films of this young director, from "April Story" to "Swallowtail", and even the early "Fireworks" ( There is still no "Summer Solstice Story" in the early days of "Dream Traveler", who can help?).
After watching Iwai's film, there will always be a kind of moving. This feeling is not accidental, but he penetrated into our hearts with his delicacy. It's so clean that people want to cry but can't shed it. This is what Kazuki Iwai brought to me. He is telling us soothing stories one after another in a beautiful and almost extreme tone, immersing us in this emotion for a long time, and then suddenly hitting our hearts at the end. The so-called shock, that's all.
We, who are used to watching European and American blockbusters, will always be paralyzed by some grand or exciting things and indulge in sensory enjoyment. In fact, what is closest to our hearts is only those small things, they are the spiritual experience on which we live. Iwai's film is based on these details.
Okay, let's go back to the film itself,
this is a painful film, the kind of pain that goes deep into the bone marrow, the pain is so painful that you can't breathe
is a story about youth, not all, and life , human nature, many, many... But I only talk about everything about youth, that simple, beautiful, lonely and cruel youth
plot that I can't describe, and I can't bear to describe it, I only talk about the hearts of those characters and what they experienced - youth
Hasumi, cowardice is his natural character, but beneath his silent appearance is a very strong heart, so he can endure all kinds of bullying by his former friend Hoshino, and even his beloved is indifferent when raped. He just listened to Lily Zhou's music one night after another, communicated with each other's pain and loneliness and comforted each other on the Internet with the ID of "Filia" and a person of "Blue Cat". Lily Zhou is his healing medicine, his spiritual support, and the only bright color in his gloomy life. He avoided everything and buried himself in Lily Zhou's music. But after discovering that "Blue Cat" is Hoshino, he finally chose to resist, or relieved - he secretly stabbed a knife into Hoshino's body at Lily Zhou's concert. With the two, this is a kind of relief. Hoshino's eyes before his death were so blurry, and Hasumi after Hoshino's death was also unusually calm. Green wheat field, boy in white shirt. With headphones, CD in hand. Such a quiet boy. The long eyelashes covering the eyes belong to such a youth.
Hoshino, it's no accident that this person has become so fast. The trip to Okinawa and the close encounter with death evoked the desperation deep within him, from the family, from the school, from the society. And before that, he hid everything so well that no one even knew he listened to Lily Zhou. His depravity was an outlet, an outlet for life against reality. He destroyed all good things, Hasumi, Kuno, Tsuda, these souls yearning for the bright were destroyed under his hands. Finally, I found out that "Filia" is Hasumi, I think he is dumbfounded. His sustenance collapsed in an instant, leaving only Lily Zhou Kongling's music. He found that the other party had the same soul as himself. When he fell, he should have known who killed him. It was Lianjian, it was himself, he was Lianjian, Lianjian was him, they had the same pain, the same loneliness, the same empty soul, and the same Lily Zhou.
Kuno, this girl who only likes to play the piano silently alone, it is difficult for us to glimpse her heart. However, from her innocence and safety, as well as the vague ambiguous relationship with Lian Jian, we know that this is also a lonely person. She was silent amidst the jealous eyes of the girls and the gazes of the boys. After being raped by Hoshino's underlings, she shaved her head and returned to the classroom. Her silent resistance stabbed in Hasumi's heart, all she needed was a little bright belonging. And Lian Jian, but couldn't give it.
Tsuda, she is the only bright spot in the story. Although Hoshino took nude photos and was forced to help socialize, she still remained optimistic and relaxed. She only showed helplessness and unspeakable resentment in front of him when Hasumi sent her home. She rejects the orchestra conductor's confession, but wonders if the cowardly Hasumi can protect herself—she doesn't even hope for it. After Kuno was raped, he shaved his head and returned to the classroom. Tsuda cried on the table by the bright window, so real. Kuno was her sustenance and incarnation in the real world, and was finally destroyed. Her heart is pure and noble, eager to fly. Next to the silver wire tower, she looked at the kites flying in the blue sky, smiled happily, and put down all the burdens. This was the saddest scene for me. She chose to leave and fell next to the power tower by flying...
This story is cruel and depressing to the point of suffocation. After reading it, I just felt that my heart kept trembling and trembling, for those stories of youth, for those young lives and young souls.
Such a story, such a period of youth. Everything about Lily Zhou, everything about youth.
Finally, let's talk about other things. The picture is beautiful, with youthful beauty and bleakness; the music is just right, in line with the tone of the story and the slow youth; the shaking shots in the technique make people trance, the long shots make people feel disappointed, and the key point of Hoshino's transformation—— The trip to Okinawa was a breakthrough in pure DV shooting. The amateur-level shaking pulled us into the story and into the hearts of the characters.
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