わたしはげんきです."
Maybe in the deepest love, all language and words are pale and powerless, and once the strong emotions are separated from life and death, in the end they will only be reduced to the simplest sentence. Greetings:
"Are you—well—?
I—very—good."
I love the name "Love Letters," although the letters throughout the story are bits and pieces of memories between two girls about another boy, but It is these bits and pieces of memories that make the latent and deep emotions carefully drawn and stripped out. Memories are the bookmarks of the years. Memories are the footprints of growth, the accumulation of all emotions, and the most beautiful and best love book for lovers in heaven.
Two beautiful women who look alike, one loves but can't get, the other is loved but doesn't know, if it wasn't for death, they may never know how beautiful and sad this unrequited love can be.
In the film, two girls who have never met each other begin to connect the sky with each other because of a love letter hoping for the kingdom of heaven. In fact, in the heart of the boy Fujii, the two girls are overlapping, they have the same appearance and temperament, and they are also the memories he left to the world. Because of the same name as the girl Fujii, he began to rejoice in the hazy love of the enemy, and because of the same voice and appearance of Hiroko and the girl Fujii, he began to have a deep love with him. After his death, the two girls meet, and a lingering love story emerges. Opportunity creates countless miracles.
Two boys and girls with the same name, the boy Fujii always writes each other's name on the library card for no reason; the girl Fujii can wait for each other until late at night for a test paper... but they don't know each other. Well, feelings have been taking root, seemingly inadvertently, unconsciously and inattentively.
The girl Fujii Tree didn't know that the boy with the same name and surname had a crush on her, and she didn't know how deeply she felt for him. of. Boys are not good at words and do not know how to express their love, so they can only use silly methods, such as putting a paper bag over the girl's head as an aggressive intimacy on the way to school; filling in the loan card countless times I have the same name as the girl, but I only deliberately choose books that ordinary people can’t read; rely on the girl to shake the light and pretend to read the test paper, just hoping to stay with the person I like more and be closer; the most daring The behavior is to go directly to the girl's house and ask her to help him return the Proust's "Reminiscence of Time Like Water" to the library, but he didn't say anything, and then he changed schools, the girl didn't know the book There is a portrait of himself on the back of his loan card, which is lifelike and full of love.
What pure love! What a melancholy youthful time!
Two girls with the same appearance, Fujii Tree and Hiroko, they each exist in a corner of the world, and they originally lived unrelatedly. If it wasn't for the fact that they had loved one person and been loved by this person, they might never have known each other in this life. . The end of the boy's life, Fujii Ki, started the relationship between the two girls, and they were connected by love letters, making their respective life trajectories intertwined. On the surface, he loves the girls Fujii Ki and Watanabe Hiroko, but when his eyes are fixed on Hiroko, he penetrates the current body and gently hugs the girl Fujii Ki in his youth.
Two people who have the same appearance but don't know each other finally got to know each other because of a letter sent to the "Fujii Tree" in the kingdom of heaven, but finally found out that it is not just acquaintance so simple. Death causes absolute loss, and loss causes eternal recollection and remembrance. Memories are the only possessions after the loss, and remembrance is the inevitable perseverance. Memories are often more beautiful than reality.
When Hiroko discovered the secret of the reply and learned about the existence of the girl Fujii, she had the urge to see her. Fujii tree happened to be away, and Hiroko left her with a letter. On the way back, Hiroko seemed to see the girl Fujii tree walking through the crowd, and subconsciously called out Fujii tree's name. The girl Fujii tree turned around when she heard someone calling her name on the road. For a moment, the two seemed to see each other in the endless crowd, but they went wrong. How many times in life have we met unexpectedly, and how many times have we passed by. It is precisely this time that they have never met that the story of the two has become more and more hazy in love and meaning.
At the end of the film, the moment Hiroko shouted in tears in the face of the snow mountain, she finally found her lost self because of her excessive hurt; while the girl Fujii Tree fell into the depths of her memory because of Hiroko's search. , tasted a bitter softness.
You and I are all too familiar with this scene.
I always believe that there are really two identical people in the world at the same time. They live happily and happily in a corner of the earth, or even in another dimension, but they never have the chance to meet each other in their entire lives. In his masterpiece "The Double Life of Veronica", Chislowski, who had left the world, profoundly transformed this concept into light and shadow, leaving behind his love in the world. If this is not a myth, then Shunji Iwai's "Love Letter" is definitely a myth close to the night pool in the sky that is so confusing that you almost have to hold your breath: a man who met, loved, and lost this man at the same time. Two girls, in the end he sadly and quietly went to heaven, taking away the memories of these two girls, but in the process of losing and discovering, he still kept the traces of memories secretly. With a love letter sent to heaven, the two girls became attached to each other in words, and everything started with memories, so all memories were gradually restored, reorganized and shared. Only memories, traveling through the interlaced cracks of time, are intertwined into a beautiful black and white ink painting.
"Love Letter" creates an unreal world. In this world, stories are interspersed in various times and spaces between reality and memory, Metujii and Hiroko. Fragments of memory are stitched together by the emotions behind the story. Each piece has a hazy poetic color, and is organized into groups of images under the fine montage organization. The so-called story is nothing more than a big image of life. This seemingly inadvertent combination forms a swaying and colorful audio-visual illusion, giving people a subtle and graceful psychological feeling.
In the film, the girl Fujii said to Hiroko that all the memories of another boy with the same name, Fujii, in middle school were all embarrassing and bad memories because of the same name, but is that really the case? If this is the case, why do I see between the lines of the two girls clearly only lingering and intoxicating?
The memories of the girl Fujiishu to the boy Fujiishu are not conscious and refined memories, but pure, pure and pure memories that are hand-picked, unmodified, and without any trace, and it is even more apparent that two people with the same name have the same name. The sincerity and preciousness of friendship between boys and girls. Maybe everything is already doomed in the dark, in the flash of forgetfulness and memory, we finally realize love, and because of love, we can survive forever. It finally made me believe in a sentence, an instant is eternity.
Everything is too late to express, all possibilities are frozen due to death or miss, and the living can only get a little warmth from the world through memory. True feelings are just like snowflakes, pure, crystal clear, and cool, so fragile that they will melt under the sun of the world at any time.
But even if the male Fujii tree left the name of "Fujii tree" on every library card in the school, even if the teenager drew the girl Fujii tree on the back of the last library card to express his hazy love I mean, going can't stop ten years, let alone the passing of the author's life. When the face of the girl Fujii tree was covered with tears, we know that many things will not be forgotten, but are just hidden in our hearts, waiting for the opportunity to grow in the dark, so that you forget that you remember it. .
Life is difficult to explain clearly, for us, love may be inlaid under the locust, willow, sycamore and straight poplar trees, and the young minds are also shy and difficult to talk to, or show off or step on the bicycle silently, like a gust of wind. Sliding across the campus covered with fallen leaves from the front of the beloved girl, or walking down the broad street full of sunshine with a heavy heart, quietly following the back of the beloved girl, love, beautiful and bitter, sweet and hopeless.
For "Love Letter", love is inlaid under the cherry tree. Cherry blossoms are dazzlingly beautiful and shockingly short. When they bloom, they splendid mountains and rivers, and when they wither, they bury their youth. It's snowing all the time in the film, and the cherry blossoms are another form of snowflakes, just as beautiful and just as short. Human life is like that. The boys and girls with the same name are deeply enveloped by impossible love, love is impossible, but death is possible. Therefore, when love is set under the cherry tree, it is tightly entangled with death.
Death and love have a strong accumulation in the Japanese national psychology. Delicate Japanese feel the true meaning of life from "life is as splendid as summer flowers, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves" with a keen sense of heart. Time is fleeting, life is impermanent, and opportunities are uncertain. They feel that life is small, tragic, and difficult to grasp. So they cherish life, cherish everything in the world. In this helpless sadness, they tend to devote all their enthusiasm to one thing, such as work and love. Their love is uncharacteristically persistent, seeing the tragic death as the pinnacle of love and life.
This national temperament is manifested in literary works, dramas, films and other art forms, and this strong complex is usually dissolved, and it is distributed in every detail, giving rise to a touch of sadness. Appreciating these works, a touch of sadness diffuses between the lines, and the deep meaning of this is a suffocating sadness.
In the falling snow and cherry blossoms, the two people who loved the girl Fujii Tree the most in this life died. Her father died of pneumonia, her boy died of mountain disaster, and the two took away the love for her. When she was a middle school girl skiing without worry, she saw a dragonfly frozen to death in the ice and snow, she leaned down and had a sad premonition that "Dad is dead". When she had grown up and searched for traces of the boy's past, she unexpectedly learned from the teacher that the boy died in a mountain accident a few years ago.
Fujii Tree's death was set by the director as a fall while climbing, not a heroic death, this is a kind of impermanence of life. The two girls he gave birth to were the most beautiful encounters in his life, but now all the opportunities have disappeared, and the beautiful love can only remain in the memories of the living.
Throughout the film, "Reminiscence of the Years Like Water", as a foreshadowing of the future, as a guiding tool, as well as a medium and witness for emotional exchange, shows the world the helplessness and vicissitudes of life. And the consciousness of death interspersed in it gives people a sense of sudden enlightenment after the vicissitudes of life, just like a gust of breeze gently brushing your face, leaving no mark, but already ripples in your heart,
tranquil and calm. It is said that the dead have no memories, but they can allow the living to recall everything about the dead. Indeed, the joy of life lies in the fact that there are still many things to recall, and the joy of death lies in being able to be freed from the original memories, and let the people who love them deeply in the world regard themselves as memories. When the girl Fujii tree sent the first and only love letter to the boy in heaven at the last moment, and when Hiroko finally fell to her knees in the snow without a sound, they all understood the simple truth that they had been searching for for a long time: the dead What people bring to the living is not only the shadow of pain, but also the desire to continue to live well.
Memories are the only possessions after the loss. Nostalgia is inevitable and persistent. People love to use selective recall. In their own memories, they only choose their favorite love letters to recollect, beautify them unconsciously, and appease Yiyibu. The feeling of giving up, knowingly picking up but not letting go, makes self-deception romantic, escapism also becomes active, and feeling memories becomes an endless luxury, because memories, many Times are more beautiful than reality itself.
In the memory, the sun, moon and stars also twinkle, illusory, but familiar, just like that sunny afternoon in the library, Fujii tree quietly hid behind the curtain, the breeze blows, people seem to be in the curtain After disappearing, but after a little concentration, he was there again, as if there was not, both real and fantasy. It turns out that he has always existed in an eternal space, and it is the heart of you and me, which cannot be erased and will never be forgotten. When longing has long been etched in the wind, and true love has long been remembered in my heart, even the vast snow can't bury all the memories of the good past. So when Bozi faced the snowy mountain where his lover was buried in the distance, he knelt on the snow and cried countless times with his throat hoarse: "おげんきですか? わたしはげんきです."
The girl Fujii Tree also seemed to sense Hiroko's call on the hospital bed, and at the same time whispered to the lover in her memory in a weak voice: "おげんきですか? わたしはげんきです." The
white snow, the mournful cold wind, Like a hymn from a distant kingdom of heaven, it is as peaceful and tranquil as fate. Fate is always nurtured and nurtured in this ideal country, teaching people to be obsessed with it willingly and unswervingly. Only at this time, when all the emotions are released and turned into a heart-wrenching cry, will you understand why there are only two simple sentences in the love letter that Bozi sent to heaven "おげんきですか?わたしはげんきです."
"My love is gone with the wind...", this is a song by Seiko Matsuda that the hero loves to sing in the film.
At the end of the film, a group of female middle school students went to tell Fujii the secret in "Reminiscence of the Time Is Like Water". Speaking, wiping his eyes with his hands, stubbornly not crying. At this time, the blue sky is like washing, and the fallen leaves are colorful.
The memories of the two girls changed their encounters and outlook on life. One was relieved from the memory that was difficult to move and started again; the other jumped into the dusty memories and became self-indulgent.
I am sincerely moved by this delicate situation; everything seems to be predestined in the dark, life and death are no longer important, in the moment of forgetting and remembering the lightning and flint, we finally perceive love, and because of love, we can exist forever. In the memory, the sun and the moon also flicker and shine. That feeling, although illusory, is very familiar, like that sunny afternoon in the library, the boy Fujii Shu quietly hid behind the curtain, the breeze was blowing, and the person seemed to disappear behind the curtain, but it was a little fixed. Calm down, he is still there, it seems that there is not yet. It turns out that in the space where he has always existed, it is the heart of you and me, which cannot be erased and will never be forgotten.
The boy Fujii Tree chose to climb the mountain. Just as there must be a deep valley under the mountain, it is the most suitable place to bury the memory.
The girl Fujii Ki chose the library. The library is the best place to reminisce, but her memories are sparked a little bit. Her memory of him has long been dull, but as time goes by, she is slowly touched, and she draws an unexpected ending.
Although the love in "Love Letter" is lost, it is not completely hopeless. The feeling of love will become the past in an instant, but the important thing is that the memories will never disappear, and will gradually accumulate in blind typing and mishaps, drifting away from the heart.
Perhaps the love words that are not spoken will be the most heart-wrenching pain, and the undiscovered love is an unbearably light regret, but the subtle and weak beauty can only be cherished and tasted by oneself. Being unloved can become touching, because all emotions are under control, and the silent is better than the self-made romance. The love department is presenting two possibilities, gain and loss coexist. It teaches us to cherish when we get it, and forces us to remember when we lose it.
Reminiscing about the past, we always have a sigh of weakness, only memories can teach us to cheer up. For the two Fujii and Hiroko, the same is true for us - only memories. The ups and downs have been eliminated, and the youthful years have been precipitated, and what remains must be good times worth cherishing.
Just like that summer night, with the faint light of the generator on the bicycle in the carport, the girl shook the handlebar until her hand was sore, but for the boy to check the test paper with the lights, she put away all her complaints and continued to shake it willingly. . I have always felt that the flickering light, like the flickering love between these two children, flickered and dimmed, ambiguous. Maybe it is more beautiful because of chaos. Once the lights are shining, the sky is dazzling, like a book that is opened too early to know the ending, and the veil is lifted too early and the face is no longer hazy, but it will leave unexpected in the process. disappointment and regret.
In my life, the deepest and truest love may never be said, never had the opportunity to say it, never happened, never realized that when I didn't find out that I fell in love, it turned out to be deep. in love. It has never been deliberately managed, never persistently managed, because there is no need to manage it at all, it is a love without flaws and flaws, which has been in a latent state until the moment of separation.
It's like the card that was put back into the book by hand many years ago. However, he was surprised to find that the sketch drawn in pencil on the back of the card was a face vaguely similar to his own, and the same name on the card was a kind call. Only then did I know what kind of unbearably light emotions I had in my life, and how I missed it so many years ago that I was expected to flip it gently.
Just like in "Love Letter", in the lively and noisy street, because of Hiroko's timid call from the nostalgia, Fujii tree riding on the car suddenly stopped and turned around, looking for Hiroko's picture in the denser and denser crowd. The vaguely similar faces covered up by the crowd...
Postscript:
I chose this movie that I like the most as a concluding chapter. The Shunji Iwai series has been completed.
The reason why I love his movies so paranoid, because from "Flower and Alice", "All About Lily Zhou", "April Story" to "Dream Traveler", "Swallowtail", "Love Letter", and more To "Fireworks" and "The Binding of Love" that I never wrote about, Iwai never deviates from the theme of youth. Like the last rose in full bloom in August when flowers are in full bloom, obsessed with dying proudly in full bloom.
Let's revisit Shunji Iwai's films together, and relive those scenes that are either fresh or cool or warm or beautiful. Let's relive the taste of youth together.
In this way, I miss the stories and faces of the past in those youthful years.
To commemorate this gorgeous and huge youth.
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