Master Shunji Iwai, director and screenwriter of "Love Letter", uses fine light and swings the camera. It didn't sell the film to commercially create the fire of sexual desire, nor did it use the gorgeous special effects to make you nervous, iron horse glaciers, or high-decibel laughter, the chocolate-like sweetness catered to the audience's taste, but gently , Lightly, in the name of love, outlines a simple but incomplete, beautiful and pleasant love with simple lines, let us know that it can be beautiful to miss it. It doesn't have the splendid Paris song: "I robbed you from the beautiful Lakedaemon, and took it away, the ship of survival, breaking the sea, leaving a lonely city, loving on the island of Kranai, in bed Sleep and lie down, I love you...", but it is like the fragrance of crocus in the wind, and like a string suddenly plucked from the distant and peaceful mountain forest, leaving a love letter from heaven, beating you The pulse could not calm down for a long time. So "Love Letter" is not a movie about popcorn and melon seeds.
The funeral takes place in the snow. Although it is a funeral, the snow in the picture is extremely beautiful and romantic. The opening scene is a series of black-and-white long-range shots that last for a few minutes. Bozi, with neat short hair and a black trench coat, walked slowly in the vast white mountains, towards the white village, where the tree passed away, and then gradually disappeared into the camera. Such an opening foreshadows that Shunji Iwai's film is meant to commemorate death, and death itself is telling the unforgettable memory in the memory.
It was cold, and the streets were covered with snow, but they were neat and clean. The wooden house, with its fireplace burning, is peaceful, only adorned with fallen leaves. This kind of picture reminds me of Kawabata Yasunari's "Ancient Capital". Probably the snowy Japan described by the literati should be so pure. But in such a light and colorful picture, the photographer decorated the mailbox with red , The jumping colors have injected life into the original gray picture. Shunji Iwai can be said to be attentive. The sound of the postman's motorcycle broke the original calm. A girl wearing a mask and wrapped in a thick blanket opened the wooden door and took a stack of the postman. The letter, but dropped one while running. It was a greeting from Hiroko to the tree that was once his fiancé but is now in heaven. And this greeting was received by a girl who looked exactly like Hiroko but had the same name as Fujii. So, the story is unveiled.
Whether the girl played by Nakayama Miei is Hiroshi or Shu, the camera is mostly shaking when she runs. The girl Shu always catches a cold and coughs badly throughout the film. Her lips It is the primary color, pale with fog. She always wraps herself tightly and thickly, as if she needs a lot of warmth, pampering, and love.
The sound of the piano is always slow, like running water , as the cleanliness of a movie slowly flows through the film. Two girls who love the same boy meet. Beside the red mailbox on the street. Bicycle rides, two girls with similar looks brush past, hiding in the crowd The Hiroko called out to the girl on the bicycle "Fujii tree"! The girl turned back but couldn't find the direction.
When the sound of death came, the piano also became fast and powerful, and the picture in memory suddenly reappeared, a fan When it was opened, a good-looking boy stood with his back to the light, so dazzling.
In the memory, it is no longer the cold winter, with pink cherry blossoms floating, and the school uniform is vibrant and vivid, clear and beautiful. Because they have the same name, the two "Fujii trees" are bound together intentionally or unintentionally. The two trees were on duty together and became the administrator together. The girl was teased because of the two trees, the boy had a fierce fight with his classmate because of the girl's sadness; because of the wrong test paper, the boy made the girl wait until dark in the carport where only couples haunted; And the beautiful girl sent the love letter, so the boy was angry and naughty. While riding a bicycle, he rushed down the hill and put the cardboard box on his head on the girl's head. The girl on the bicycle almost lost her direction. The ignorant impulse, the deep but dull well-intentioned, the lover has no intention of punishing himself. These memories are no longer only the flow of the piano, but also the simple melody of the guitar and the jumping rhythm. The alternation of violin and bass orchestra revives everything.
As a cameraman, Junji Yanjing should be greedy for fiddling with the camera, capturing the picture, and cherishing the pictures. In "Love Letter", the woman Fujii tree pressed the shutter twice. Once in a race. The teenager Fujii Ki was unable to hide the game because of a leg injury, but stubbornly grabbed the track outside the field and fell. Every picture at that time was framed by the girl tree. When he became an adult, Shuwei sent photos of his alma mater to Bozi and came to his old place. The sound of the shutter is clear, the trees jump happily on the snowy playground, and the camera rotates. There is also a photo album of the boy Fujii Tree, a large number of photos, all in black and white. Maybe the primary color image is Shunji Iwai's favorite, and the girl is running happily, the master thinks of himself.
Four-fifths into the film, Fujii Tree, a girl suffering from both mental and severe cold, finally collapsed on the hospital bed. She muttered the boy's name back then. At the same time, on the top of the snow-capped mountain where the man Fujii Shu died, Hiroko, who suffered endless injuries, ran, cried, and greeted: How are you? I'm very good! Are you OK? I'm fine... Repeatedly, whether to call or say goodbye, I don't know, I just know that this girl who doesn't know if she has ever been truly loved is in the vast snow, unable to hold herself back and sobbing like this, looking so helpless Helpful and flimsy.
The boy's tree left the school, he hid his deep love in a book, and then placed a bottle of beautiful daisies on the girl's tree's desk. The girl smashed the beautiful vase in front of everyone. At this moment, the piano in the background also stops its wonderful flow.
The boy's tree was gone, and the girl closed the door of the library gently, leaving the white curtains fluttering gently. The white curtain was once aroused by the wind, and the boy's good-looking face was looming. This picture made the girl discover for the first time that the boy's tree turned out to be so beautiful. "People like him often look into the distance. Those eyes are always clear and they are the most beautiful I have ever seen... He likes climbing and painting, if he is not painting, he is climbing." The girl tree is recalling said so. The actor of Juvenile Tree - Takashi Kashiwahara, a person who has collapsed. His autobiography, "To My Broken Self", is accompanied by a picture, remember that he started from this black and white image. Outline the appearance of a handsome boy with a strong narrative medium shot. The black casual top, the short hair with the eyebrows, the gray-scale background is a calm lake, as if the effect of a negative film, a shallow smile, the clouds are light and the wind is light. Now that he is writing such a book, it should be a comeback after a collapse.
The snow has melted a lot, revealing the yellow of the fallen leaves and the light green of the tender grass. On a warm day, a group of energetic girls brought the book left by the juvenile tree, which contained a sketch of a young girl, which was a tree in middle school. The girl's eyes were wet with tears in the spring breeze...
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