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Behind the Movie (8) "Love Letter": Life and death cannot stop the unfinished confession
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Before we start today's movie "Love Letter", may wish to recall, how long have you not written a "love letter" in the true sense?
At that time, Shunji Iwai may not have thought that more than 20 years have passed. At that time, the correspondence and writing of love letters that people are accustomed to are romantic enough today, romantic enough to attract people to re-enter the theater to continue writing. That long-lost love letter.
The movie begins with a funeral, and the first thing we see is a vast expanse of white snow, contrasted with a woman dressed in black.
She was lying in the snow, and the snowflakes were flying and falling between her hair. At this time, the camera was frozen, and the soothing piano sounded. She slowly got up and walked in the snow, and the footprints behind her were gradually covered by the snow. Buried...
This scene sets the overall emotional tone of the film at the beginning— restrained, sentimental, yet mild.
People came and went at the funeral. In the end, only Hiroko Watanabe stood alone in front of the tomb. Two years later, she was still unable to let go of the pain of her husband's death. When she returned home, she accidentally opened the long-covered photo album.
She was searching for her husband's name. Even though he had left her, she still wanted to continue to pursue his past. The name of Fujii Shu and the place of Otaru became the bridge connecting her and him. At this time, Hiroko had a bold idea. idea.
Thousands of miles away, Fujii Tree received a letter from Kobe that said
"How are you? I'm fine"
The letter sent to the deceased in heaven, which she thought would never be delivered, received a reply, and the photo sent by the other party was so similar to herself, which made her panic. She didn't want to be someone else's phantom. She was afraid that her lover would choose her because she looked alike. All of the above aroused Hiroko's curiosity. With the encouragement of Akiba, she decided to set foot on Otaru . on a journey to reminisce about her husband's "time like water".
At this time, the female Fujii Tree was still plagued by illness. In the hospital, she heard this familiar name again through the letter. She was sitting in the corridor of the hospital with a severe cold, and the memories of the past emerged. In her mind, she saw the appearance of her father before his death, she got up and followed him, pushed open the door of the ward, a montage, the man who had the same name as her, Fujii Tree and the young middle school time
Bozi wrote this
"In order to meet you, I came to Otaru. Now this letter is written in front of your house. The Fujii tree I know is not you. After arriving here, I finally understand that the Fujii tree I know is A man, and a former lover of mine, who was two years ago..."
Bozi stopped writing here, and after hesitating, crossed out the last sentence
She put the letter in the mailbox, hoping that this letter could relieve herself and return to the life in front of her.
"I don't know where he is now, but I think of him sometimes, and I think he might be struggling somewhere, and that's why I wrote that letter, I never expected it to arrive, I'm so sorry to bother you like this, I came here to meet you, who has the same name, but I didn't have the courage to meet you. Thinking about it, we only met on a letter, so I still use a letter to say sorry to you ."
Bozi didn't wait any longer, she got up and left, fate seemed to play a joke on the two of them here, and she passed the girl tree in the taxi. Hiroko presented the taxi for the return trip, and the driver's words seemed to wake up the dreamer with a few words, and I suddenly understood the ingenuity of Shunji Iwai here.
We also finally understood Hiroko's thoughts, and we are more curious about the past between the man and woman Fujii. The suspense has escalated again. The director's way of combining suspense and romance films further arouses the audience's desire to find out together with the characters in the play. curiosity.
Finally Bozi saw the girl tree, she called her name subconsciously, and she turned back, but they seemed to be each other's phantoms, living in the same space at the same time but couldn't see each other, just like that, they were dramatic again. missed each other .
Under the entrustment of Bozi, Nushu began to recall the common experience of her junior high school and Nanshu, and wrote this memory in a letter to share with Bozi the unattainable memories that belonged only to the two of them.
They were teased by their classmates because of the same name, which also gave them the opportunity to work together in the library, and of course laid the groundwork for the romantic story of the two.
Letters, library, and reading are the standard features of literary youth. She watched him stand behind the curtains fluttering in the wind with a book in his hands. His figure was looming, and her heart throbbed unconsciously.
The memory fragments of the past were gradually pieced together, and the figure of him in her eyes gradually became no longer blurred. Like other adolescent boys and girls, they would unconsciously develop good feelings for each other during play. The teenager chose to borrow a library card. It was filled with two people's names and in the name of reading the test paper, I hoped to stay with the girl for a while.
It's just that the girl at that time didn't understand the boy's mind and the romance of writing the two of them with the same name.
The younger sister's words made her suddenly realize that Nanshu's intentions were good, but this sense of happiness did not last long. The teacher told the female tree the news of Nanshu's death , but the spark of love between the two was separated by death. She knew that this feeling could never be fulfilled.
She rode a bicycle back, and Bozi took a train in the distance to set off in the heavy snow. In that heavy snow, Nushu returned to the time when her father died. She thought of the frozen dragonfly. The life of the dragonfly has already ended, but it The best moments have been preserved forever.
This just confirms the Japanese's peculiar view of 'matter sorrow', which is just like the snow that runs through the whole piece.
Among the national flags of all countries in the world, the background color is pure white, and I am afraid that the Japanese flag is unique. The Japanese love white because white is like snow, and snow represents purity, and "snow melts easily and contains an impermanent sadness, which is very compatible with the sentimental character of the Japanese."
Nvshu fell down because of a long-term cold, just like her father many years ago. At this time, a difficult choice was put in front of grandfather and mother again, whether to choose to carry the tree to the hospital or wait for the ambulance?
The right to choose was handed over to the mother this time. She chose to trust her grandpa again. Grandpa finally successfully sent the tree to the hospital, even faster than an ambulance.
The road from home to the hospital may have been traveled thousands of times since his son's death, and now he has finally completed his redemption.
Hiroko returned to Kobe, she and Akiba went back to the mountain where Oshu died, and the men talked about the song the tree sang before he died
Ah, my love has gone with the south wind, and it's all gone to the coral reef swept by the smoky wind. Every time I meet you unexpectedly, I always forget everything. Playing like a little girl, you can hear me bang dong Let the heart beat, the coral reefs make our skin mottled, and it's better just the two of us because I love you!
As the movie begins to explain - Otaru is a small town in the north far away from Kobe. To the last moment of his life, Oki still hopes that the wind blowing from the south can bring him back to Otaru, back to the past, to pursue himself true love.
Bozi's heart is full of mixed feelings, and it is difficult for anyone to understand her sadness, and her own value seems to exist as a replica.
She came to the foot of the mountain, her heart wanted to shout, she took off the coat that symbolized the burden of the past, her red in the white snow was so bright, she shouted
Are you OK? I'm very good
The past passed away with her tears, and the female Fujii tree on the hospital bed seemed to hear her inner cry and responded to Hiroko's words.
A parallel clip draws the hearts of the two people, who are thousands of miles apart, very close.
The female tree also completed her memory. At the end of their story, he gave her a book - "Reminiscence of the Time Like Water" and asked her to return it on his behalf. That was the last time he saw the male tree, and they never met again. Without contact, her memory also ends here.
Finally, she received the love letter that arrived more than ten years late. In the book, she opened the back of the debit card, which was the most affectionate confession of Nanshu - a portrait he painted for her.
She smiled, unable to restrain her inner emotions from bursting like a tide. All of this turned into this most beautiful love letter. Even though she was late for many years, her unfinished confession was finally completed today. Still beautiful.
"My incredible pen pal, Miss Hiroko Watanabe, how are you? I'm still the same as I used to be, how can I say I'm the same as before? Anyway, a wonderful thing happened today, I thought I should tell you, so I hurriedly picked up the pen, or typed these words, this is unexpected, dear Miss Hiroko Watanabe, because I am very shy, I did not send this letter."
In the end, the female Fujii tree did not see the male Fujii tree again, and Watanabe Hiroko did not see the female tree again. The movie ends here, with a kind of incomplete, regrettable beauty, and an imperfect ending, The lights of the theater came on, leaving only the audience in the theater to experience the taste of it, and they couldn't let go for a long time.
Memories (warm) reality (cold)
"Love Letter" (1995), which was born after the Japanese bubble economy, under the background of such an era, the creator inevitably incorporated his nostalgia for the glorious and prosperous life of the past in the film.
In the film, it is the reminiscence of the girl Fujiishu for her time in the water. The director chose to use the contrast of cold and warm tones to highlight the difference between the past and the present in the film. Although the youth in her memories is a little regrettable, the overall is still very beautiful. , so the director of the memory plot used a lot of warm colors to decorate the past, and the memories all happened in spring, summer and autumn, and it was winter until the last two people were about to part.
Therefore, the director of the memory plot used a lot of warm colors to decorate the past, and the memories all happened in spring, summer and autumn, and it was winter until the last two people parted.
The current line in "Love Letter" we have seen happened in winter, and the snow has been falling. The snow in the film has roughly undergone such changes (size), and the snow also subtly reflects the emotional ups and downs of the characters.
At the beginning of the film, we felt the coldness of the world with Bozi lying in the snow. This cold also penetrated into her heart and hurt her soul. And as she came to Otaru, the snow gradually became smaller, and then the female tree fell ill, and the snow fell the largest. At the same time, Bozi, thousands of miles away, shouted out the grievances that had been accumulated in her heart for a long time under the snowy mountain where her husband died.
White is a symbol of death, and the mood of the characters in the film is expressed by snow, and the white represented by snow also acts on the characters, adding a solemn sadness to their emotions.
This kind of design that uses the natural environment to reflect the heart of the characters is not new, but it is also very clever.
At that time, the correspondence between letters was not like the instant messaging of today. A letter needs to be written in a sitting position, and it can be delivered to the recipient after many days of waiting. The written letters give meaning, but the letters, as the tears of the times, are gone forever like that glorious time.
"in memory of our passing age"
In the movie, the book that the male tree entrusted to the female tree to return is the seventh chapter of "Reminiscence of the Years Like Water", "The Time to Reappear". The book contains a portrait of him expressing his love. She didn't express her love at the last moment, and she just didn't see his painting, which caused them to miss it.
I thought that when the book was opened, the story of the two had just begun. However, once the book was closed, it would be more than ten years since the book was opened again. At this time, the two were separated by yin and yang. the end of. After that parting, they could never see each other again, let alone continue the unfinished story together.
This ending can't help but make people sigh, we desperately want to seize the past, but the past has been silently flowing out of our hands like water, and we don't even give you a chance to say goodbye to the past.
Just imagine, if they took the initiative, would the result be different? But it's all just if we can't change the past, it's better to accept the present full of regrets, to grasp the incomplete and beautiful future, with the deceased's Hope to continue. as the sentence
"I'm back, for those who can't come back"
From beginning to end, most of what we know about Nanshu comes from the memories of those around him. This kind of outline of a person's traces from the impressions of the people around them is a common method of recalling the dead in movies, which was reflected as early as in the film history classic "Citizen Kane".
Ambiguous mirror relationship and unfulfilled love
In "Love Letter", the creators set up multiple pairs of mirror relationships - a man and a woman with the same name, Fujii Ki, a woman with the same appearance, and Watanabe Hiroko, especially the latter, who constantly resonate and experience each other's emotions.
Bozi and Nushu, although they look the same, have completely opposite attitudes. The former wishes to forget the past, while the latter wishes to recall the past. This ambiguous state of wandering between recollection and prospect, remembering and forgetting together constitutes the film's delicate balance and the core driving force of the characters.
Most of the love in the film is more tortuous.
The female assistant's love for Akiba, Akiba's love for Hiroko, Hiroko's love for male Fujii, and even male Fujii's love for female Fujii.
All these loves have been shouted but there is no response, especially the last two pairs of love, life and death block love and can no longer be fulfilled.
write at the end
Why do we love "Love Letters"? - empathy
As a classic among classics, "Love Letter" carries countless audiences' best fantasies and memories of love.
As Goethe said in The Sorrows of Young Werther
"Which boy is not affectionate, and which girl is not cherishing spring"
Who hasn't had a crush on a girl or boy when they were young?
The love at that time was pure and beautiful, not mixed with interests, it was the purest, and it was even more romantic, and "love letters" were the most romantic way of conveying emotions in the age of underdeveloped social media. Way.
I don’t know if you, like me, hid many love letters, and you didn’t have the courage to give them to the girl you love until you graduated. You didn’t dare to say the words your heart wanted to shout out loud. The love is hidden deep in my heart, until the dust gradually covers the envelope, and these letters gradually disappear in the long river of memory with the passage of time, and the world line between you and her has long been separated and no longer intersected.
Until an accidental opportunity many years later, rediscovered, opened, the dusty emotions flooded into my heart, the past was vivid in my mind, and finally turned into a long sigh. , can only continue to bury this feeling in the bottom of my heart, let him continue to warm up.
Maybe we don't happen to be in the same class with the opposite sex with the same name as Fujii. The person with the same name as you may have never met when you passed away.
But I think we all had feelings for a person because of various opportunities in that young and ignorant adolescence, and this kind of emotion is not as great as "love".
Just like Julie and Brian in "Heartbeat", they buried all kinds of stories and feelings under the plane tree, enjoying everything at the moment.
Teenage love always comes to an abrupt end like the ending of a movie, even though regret and loss are the main tone, but when that story is about to be forgotten in the corner of memory and slowly buried by the dust of trivial life in front of you. Looking back suddenly, the people of Sri Lanka have passed away, and the time is like water. You can only taste the love letter waiting for you to personally open it.
We all know that we can never go back to the past, and we can't explain to her that we left without saying goodbye, but at least we still have a movie. In the change of light and shadow, under the inspiration of the characters in the movie, we can retrace this relationship and find the Seal the unsent love letter and complete the unfinished confession.
Perhaps this is the unique charm of the film.
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