The film gives the impression at the beginning, like a jar full of colorful candies, with a brisk and bright beginning, a gorgeous scene, a close-up of the face of a beautiful female singer, singing heartily: "I want to be happy, I want to be happy.…”.
The bustling city quickly cuts through people at different places at the same time, Shibuya, Makuhari, Shinjuku, and Arakawa at 3 pm. From time to time, suspense dramas on TV are interspersed, and the lines in it seem to be in dialogue with the characters in the movie, but they don't seem to be. Just when the oil painting-like picture is dazzling, the narration is very calm and cruel to tell us that not everyone is lucky enough to realize their dreams, those who are not lucky enough, either sigh sadly or get drunk. .
After watching this film in its entirety, I realized that the colorfully packaged ones were not candies, but bitter pills wrapped in sugar.
The film shows Matsuko's life, from an innocent little girl to a sloppy and fat woman. The film also constantly depicts Matsuko's love and rejection. When she was young, as the eldest daughter, she couldn't get the attention of her father because of her sister's illness. When she grew up, she loved again and again and failed again and again, but she continued to move forward again and again, as if she was more than She once said, "That time, I thought I was done", but every time, she always struggled to survive.
On that splendid stage, tragedy and comedy are staged at the same time. Every time when people fall into despair and sadness, the film throws out exaggerated and even comical tricks to stop the tears that are about to fall. In the same way, every time when the moved emotions gradually accumulate in your heart and are about to overflow, the absurd plot makes you burst into laughter. In this way, on the stage where joys and sorrows are intertwined, what is told is not a gorgeous tragedy, but a cruel fairy tale.
It is not uncommon for the story of a woman's tragic life, but Songko's story seems absurd but different. Her disgusting life is not bleak, but gorgeous, just like the gorgeous yellow tone of the film. Following the clue of Matsuko's nephew, I have seen Matsuko's life. When the film has passed even the last second, facing the shady scene, I can finally burst into tears and feel sad for Matsuko, but I don't think she is sad.
After tasting the bitter pill, when the bitterness in the mouth gradually becomes lighter, when the tears on the cheeks begin to dry, the thin layer of sugar coating between the bitterness makes people miss them.
That icing is like a playground of scones and candy trees.
The songs and dances on the stage were as beautiful as a dream. As a child, Matsuko watched with wide-eyed eyes. The comedians on the stage made the audience laugh. Matsuko was also laughing. It was rare to be alone with her father. At the time, but my father was still sitting upright. This was undoubtedly a sad moment, but Matsuko made a face herself, and her father was finally amused by her.
It is with the presence of this layer of sugar coating that the bitterness of the pill is not intimidating.
But the sugar coating is not real candy after all. The grimace appeared again and again, and the pine nuts gradually grew up, while the father's smile became shallower, the sweetness gradually disappeared, and the bitterness came to my mind.
That layer of icing is like the song and dance of "Happy Wednesday". Matsuko has hope for Toruya. This expectation is not an expectation of money, it is just her belief and dream. Facing Toruya's violent temper and beating, Matsuko did not lose heart. She paid with her consistent love. , although her love has always brought only harm to herself.
After Tetsuya died, she became Nooka's lover.
Matsuko cleans up the house in a warm and romantic way. The wall is green wallpaper with pink flowers blooming on it. She happily sings "happy Wednesday". The whole dance is a happy housewife. Matsuko can only wait on Wednesday. The return of her "husband", but her dance steps are still brisk.
But after the sugar coating melted, it was still bitter.
Toruya's suicide, Nooka's departure.
She shouted why at the tightly closed door, and the scene flashed with Tetsuya's last smile before committing suicide, then shattered and bloodied.
Born to be human, I'm sorry...
This bitterness left a deep imprint on Matsuko, so later she wrote on the wall again and again, "Born to be human, I'm sorry."
Matsuko, who was abandoned again, did it She had taken the job she had not been suitable for before, and this time, the sugar coating was like the foam of a Turkish bath.
"love is bubble, love is trouble", simple lyrics, sung over and over again, the picture of Matsuko doing squatting at home makes my heart tremble. In Matsuko's eyes, the job of a Turkish bath girl may be the same as that of a teacher. When she was a teacher, she worked hard to protect her students, even if she was misunderstood. When she's a hammam girl, she's working out, she's just giving, doing her job. This layer of icing started a new life with pine nuts. Even if she was hurt again and again, she still had no turning back. Her life was as vivid and splendid as the movie.
Finally, the magic of the icing wears off again.
An era has passed, and she was once again betrayed. When she stabbed the man with a knife on that rainy night, she couldn't help cheering for Matsuko.
This was her only resistance. She thought that this time was really over.
Matsuko jumped downstairs. I thought that this time was really over.
But she still grabbed the railing, the desire to survive made her struggle hard, and she came back to life.
Matsuko went to Tamagawa Shangshui to commit suicide. This was a sad moment, but at this time, the film put a layer of sugar coating on the bitter pill.
Pine Nuts stood under the bridge, surrounded by dazzling green leaves, and the barber on the bridge had an honest, flat head. The light of that picture is like an angel descending.
When Matsuko was taking the transcript, she said that the barber was not a beautiful man, but her eyes were very gentle. Matsuko chose to move forward again and chose to find her true love.
Life in the high walls is a song, "what is life".
Interspersed with the lives of other female prisoners, irritability, weeping, chaotic fights and homosexuality with only lust. Pine Nuts are so peaceful here. Facing the high wall, she is still exercising, just like when she was a Turkish bath girl, without anxiety or confusion, but such Pine Nuts are numb. She thought of the barber again, her heart began to burn again, and she finally sang out loud, "If there is love, you can live." Although the process of chasing love has scarred Matsuko, she still loves it. Live tenaciously.
When pine nuts, standing in front of the cherry tree, saw the barber, everything had gone away from her once again.
That layer of icing, like cherry blossoms falling behind, is beautiful, but short-lived.
But Matsuko was willing to endure the pain for that trace of sweetness.
What is love? life is love!
When she met Long Yangyi again, Songzi fell in love again. This time, her love was tragic. As long as she is with Long Yang, no matter the region or other places, she will follow wherever she goes, because that is her happiness. As soon as Long Yang was imprisoned, she waited outside the prison holding a rose. The snow was blowing, and Songzi hid the bouquet behind her. The naughty little details were followed by the sentence "You're back" that Songzi seemed to have prepared for a long time. However, the response was Long Yangyi's fist and escape. Maybe the love that Songzi was looking for had already appeared at this time, but they could no longer have that love together.
Even so, the film sugar-coated the bitterness, the pine-nut messy home, her tousled hair, her fat body, her staggering steps. She thought everything was over, but Matsuko's love was still there. She fell in love with Genji, she missed her home, she sat on the edge of the river that looked like her hometown and cried.
Matsuko wrote thick letters for her idol, and she often went to the mailbox to wait for a reply. Matsuko's love and expectation never disappeared, even though her body was old.
In the starry sky and green grass, when I thought that all misfortunes would turn into candy, the film, as before, gave us a surprise. Matsuko was accidentally beaten to death by a middle school student, and the police found a friend in her hands. Contact information, perhaps no accident, we will see a perk up again.
Sugar coating is everywhere in the film, and the flowers that appear frequently in the foreground, no matter how bleak the background is, they are always blooming beautifully. The singing and dancing throughout and the melodious and gentle nursery rhyme can soothe the heartache of Matsuko and the audience after every pain. The application of a lot of computer animation to build a fairy tale world, these icings make this bitter pill so delicious.
At the end, the lyrical part of reality brings a bright ending to this story that ends with death. The reappearance of Matsuko's life and her illusions, she suddenly discovers that in fact, Matsuko's life has never been happy? The sweetness of those icings is actually enough.
The director uses an extreme method to tell a sad story with bold and strong colors and music. Matsuko's silly obsession with love is justified by this extreme method.
After the eye-catching gorgeous turmoil, Matsuko's life also faded away with the end of the movie.
The sugar coating was removed, and only bitter pills remained for people to heal.
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