The film "Love Letter" is a beautiful story about love and memory, and the plot seems to be quite simple. However, if we read the text of the film carefully, we will find that under the veneer of youth drama idol drama, "Love Letter" is a painful youth narrative.
The story takes place in the city of Otaru, Japan, which is famous for its snow scene. The snow in the sky silently tells a deep love, and a helpless brush is passed. Fujii (male)'s juvenile love, Hiroko's deep nostalgia for her fiancé, Fujii (female) gradually discovers the truth of love that she didn't know before... Until the end, Hiroko finally gave up the questioning and torture of whether the boy really loved her. Because he was someone she loved deeply, she loved him, they had good memories, that's enough, what more explanation is needed? She came to the mountain where he was killed, stood in the knee-length snow and looked up at the top of the mountain at dawn, saying goodbye to him who was sleeping peacefully on the other side of the mountain: "How are you? I'm fine." The world of affection that is still warm in the cold winter, It makes people cry... The director skipped these two sets of shots, and the warmth gradually melted away the cold of winter, which seemed to herald the end of the memory, and the new seasons were accompanied by a change of attitude towards life.
Perhaps, this movie is not Iwai's best work. But I have always maintained a preference for "Love Letter". I think there is hope there, Milan. In the novel "Slow", Kundera called it "the destination of the entire human race and even the universe." It has a nice name - love. The director's re-splicing of reality and memory has actually stitched together a flower spirit that was scattered before it was opened.
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