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At the age of 16, on a weekend when I was not studying, I accidentally opened a movie called "Love Letter" for the first time, so I was deeply moved by the pure and introverted love, and since then I kept a pure and flawless snow field in my heart; One day, I saw the original book while wandering in the bookstore, and actually put down the original plan, sat on the floor like a child, and finished reading the book in one afternoon.
The most impressive scene at that time was the most classic scene in the movie: in the library in the afternoon, the sun shines through the window, the wind raises the white curtains, and the young man reading by the window has a handsome face.
It is this scene that made Bai Yuan Chong the throne of the Japanese male god for many years and became the white moonlight in the hearts of thousands of girls.
But this time, the love that touched me the most was second, and I felt that I had touched something new, and these things may actually be the core of the film that truly purifies the soul and heals the heart.
Still regard "Love Letter" as a love movie? That would narrow the road.
The reason why "Love Letter" is immortal is not only because it depicts a story of first love so beautifully, but also because we can see through it how people forget, forgive and commemorate after experiencing sadness and pain. How to continue, how the sun rises as usual.
This kind of narration is not didactic or inductive, but gentle and firm. Under the soft narrative, the inner warmth, love for the world, and expectations for the future are slowly lifted up .
This is not only a Love letter to lovers, but also a love letter to life and the world.
1,
About youth and first love
"Fujii Tree ❤Fujii Tree".
This is a sentence that everyone will smile when they see it. Whether as a joker or a joker, in short, whose adolescence hasn't experienced such a joke?
Always for some ridiculous reason. For example, the same name in the film may be because the family lives close, because they got the same score in a certain test, or because they are both class representatives... A boy and a girl were forcibly made cp by their classmates. .
The parties are miserable, and those who do good have relish; it seems like this, but in fact, sometimes some young feelings quietly germinate at this time.
Just like the male tree in the film, he secretly fell in love with the female tree in the troubled "gossip", but because of his shyness, because he was not good at words, and perhaps because of some adolescent sensitivity and inferiority, he was unable to express it after all.
On the eve of his transfer, he finally mustered up the courage, but the way he used it was very obscure - he drew a sketch of the girl tree on the back of Proust's "Reminiscence of Time Like Water" library card, and handed it over to the girl for help. return. The "window paper" that the teenager had a crush on was only separated from the front and back of a library card. Because Nvshu never turned over the library card, it was buried in time regretfully.
Many years later, the male tree met Bozi who looked exactly like the female tree at a party with friends. Perhaps he remembered the first love he missed because of his shyness and silence.
The two had been in love for a long time, and when they were already talking about marriage, Nanshu died because of a mountain climbing accident. His girlfriend Hiroko saw Nanshu's former address in Otaru when he was looking through his graduation album, so on a whim, he sent a letter to Fujii Shu of "Heaven" that no one thought would be checked: "Fujii Shu, how are you? ?I'm very good."
Who knew that the letter was sent to Nvshu by accident, so the truth of youth was gradually revealed in the correspondence between the two parties.
So far this is the basic context of the movie plot.
I don't know how many people have been touched by the male tree's secret love for the female tree. Coupled with the beauty buff of Takashi Kashiwahara, the name "Fujii tree" has become synonymous with first love in the hearts of many girls.
However, how do "mature women" who are no longer in adolescence feel like watching movies again?
In fact, not only was he not so handsome that he screamed, but sometimes he felt "unbearable to look directly".
When the "male god" in memory holds a pile of library cards into a fan shape triumphantly and says, "This is my 'Fujii Whirlwind'"; when the crippled "male god" sits on the edge of the playground with a cane When an athlete in training assumes a "sniper" position; when a "male god" rushes down a hillside with a flour bag and buckles the bag upside down on the head of a female tree riding a bike; The tree stayed a while longer and deliberately kept checking the answer, and asked the female tree to keep cranking the headlights to illuminate him...
I really feel a little confused and confused: Who is this pig-headed boy in the second middle school? What's the difference between him and the primary school student who pulls the girl's braid? Why did I regard him as a male god back then?
Admit it, you are blinded by Kashiwahara's beauty filter. And only by removing the influence of the beauty buff, can we better understand the film's depiction of "youth"; after all, "Love Letter" is not a romance novel that is purely dream-weaving.
"Love Letter" is extremely realistic in its depiction of adolescents, including those naive, shallow, selfish, crude, and even cruel sides of youth.
Just like the "worrying bridal chamber" in traditional wedding culture is defined by Ang Lee as "the result of five thousand years of sexual repression", teenagers have no lower limit and almost maliciously joke about the two Fujii trees, which is also after adolescence's sexual agitation has been suppressed. a manifestation of.
Teenagers of this age naturally have ignorant curiosity and desire for sex and love, but in the eastern context, these are taboos and cannot be said. So under the guise of making jokes with classmates, this kind of stimulation relieves the restlessness to some extent.
But this kind of "joke" is out of place, forced to buy and sell, and inhumane. It is almost a kind of xenophobic collective carnival and an isolated campus bullying. Even if the female tree was wronged and wept because of their malicious joke, they were not soft-hearted, but watched with novelty; even if the male tree was angry, they still said it was just a joke, as if the male tree's anger was so ignorant and out of touch. After the male tree changed schools, they maliciously placed flowers on the male tree's table (Japan has a custom of placing flowers on the table of deceased students as a tribute), while the female tree understood the heavy weight of death because of the death of her father, so she was angry. Smashed the vase.
Teenage girls are also confusing.
Some girls are completely "love brains", such as the carport confession episode presented in a playful way in the film. The girl who bravely confessed in the company of her good sister was completely ignored by the boys, so she screamed sharply, and her brave friend rushed Go out and give the boy the middle finger and shout abuse.
For example, the neurotic Dajing always pretends to be old-fashioned about "men's heartlessness" and "women's more heartless". In fact, what does she know?
But for all the ugliness of youth, it is precious for many other things.
For example, a young man's heart is always sincere. For example, the male tree, he can be like any boy in his puberty, scribbling a bikini beauty on the test paper, or he can face the girl he likes and love him hard, and he can only write on the back of the library card. Draw a portrait of her to express her love awkwardly.
So, don't open "Love Letter" by reading romance novels. Romance novels are illusory, but "Love Letter" expresses a more touching reality.
Why bother about whether the male tree loves the female tree or Bozi?
There is not only one lover in one's life.
2,
On forgetting and remembering
Poke the outer shell of the film's pure love film and come to its deeper theme.
Regarding this theme, the film uses two lines to express - the Bozi line and the female tree line.
These two narrative lines correspond to the two deceased: the father of the male tree and the female tree. One is about love, the other is about family; one represents change, and the other represents unchanged.
Japan has always loved emotional restraint and restraint—love or pain; even emotional outbursts are seen as shameful gaffes and indignities.
If you don't understand it, you may even feel that they take death too lightly. But in fact, it is not. On the surface, it is easy and indifferent, but in fact the pain and scars are deeply buried in my heart.
Let's talk about the death of the male tree first.
The film begins with the festival of the male tree. It is a little different from what is usually expressed in literary and artistic works: although the condolences are dressed in black formal clothes, the scene is noisy, people are talking and laughing, and some people are drunk and lose their way. Yan Yan smiled and even pretended to have a headache to escape the reception.
Shouldn't the sacrificial day be solemn and sad? Can death be easily forgotten, and wounds easily healed?
of course not.
Bozi was jealous because he knew about the female tree, and was repeatedly questioned by the mother of the male tree, and said in a choked voice, "I'm going to cry again if you say that again." At this time, the seemingly carefree and open-minded mother was already one step ahead of her. ;
On weekdays, there is no formal autumn leaf humming song all the time, but it turned out to be the last sound left by the male tree after falling off the cliff;
Just like the most classic expression "I love you" with "the moonlight is beautiful tonight", Hiroko's letter "Fujii tree, how are you? I'm fine", a seemingly innocuous greeting, in fact, every word says All are missed and unforgettable.
Let's talk about the female tree father.
A cold caused pneumonia, and the ambulance could not arrive in time. Grandpa insisted on walking to the hospital on his back, but he still couldn't make it in time, and he died like this.
Although they didn't blame verbally, the mother and Nvshu more or less believed that grandpa was responsible for their father's death.
The mother and daughter joined forces and tried to force the move regardless of grandpa's wishes, moving from the old house that grandpa loved but in disrepair to a modern apartment; ——In the film, when Nvshu received the letter for the first time, her grandfather wanted to read the letter, but Nvshu directly stuffed the seasoning bottle into her grandpa's hand to prevent it.
Implicit, means not expressing; not expressing, means repression, means standing still.
Although Bozi and Qiuye are becoming more and more ambiguous, but because he cannot forget the male tree, it means that he cannot start a new relationship with Qiuye; the mother and the female tree are puzzled by the grandfather's heart, and the family life cannot be happy.
In the second half of the film, Nvshu has been suffering from a bad cold, which caused pneumonia, high fever and coma; the ambulance could not arrive in time because of the heavy snow, and grandpa resolutely carried Nvshu again. The ambulance took an hour to arrive, and the hike actually took only 38 minutes. The girl tree was saved.
Although the father's illness was caused by the delay, it had nothing to do with grandpa's stubbornness; grandpa was just an old man who tried his best to save his son but failed. The family's heart was unraveled.
After that, Nvshu began to be willing to share her own affairs with her grandfather. The family also decided not to leave the old house full of memories.
On Bozi's side, Qiuye finally took her to the mountain where Nanshu died. Facing the rising sun in the orange glow on the vast snowy field, she took off her thick down jacket, just like a hard layer. Shell, wearing an orange sweater the same color as the morning glow, repeatedly shouted to the mountain what she wrote to the male tree: "Fujii-ki, how are you? I'm fine."
"Fujii tree, how are you? I'm fine." These are the words Bozi repeatedly shouted in the face of Xueshan and Chaoyang.
"Fujii tree, I miss you very much." This is what Hiroko's letter wanted to express at the beginning.
"Fujii tree, I miss you very much, but I will continue to live a good life." This is what Hiroko wanted to express in the end.
For the female tree family, they finally decided not to leave the old house, which is the same; for Bozi, she finally decided to let go of the male tree and fall in love with Qiuye, this is the change. But whether it is changed or unchanged, they have resolved their sorrows, crossed the scars, and chose the future.
Otaru in "Love Letter" seems to be snowing all the time. But this snow is the warmest and most healing snow I have ever seen.
Much of the publicity after the re-screening called the film "the youth of a generation", when in fact it was more than a generation. All those who meet this movie, sooner or later, will have a pure white seed planted in their hearts.
Even after separation and loss, face the grief, reconcile with the past, let go of yourself, and embrace the future.
xxx, how are you? I'm very good.
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