----Although Kawajirisheng
is the title of the original novel, it still takes considerable courage to directly use the blatant derogatory term "disgusted". Moreover, it requires a certain historical span to express a person's "life", and also needs to make a comprehensive and accurate description of all aspects of the protagonist, not to mention that "Citizen Kane" is a big mountain ahead, and it is quite challenging to shoot well. "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko" is a masterpiece released by director Tetsuya Nakajima after the novel of the same name. The gorgeous light and shadow effects, bright color matching, unwarranted humor and pop music with appropriate background are all directed by Nakajima. In the main line, there are more big-name actors such as Shiba Sakiyuki, Tanihara Shosuke, Takeda Shinji, AI, BONNIE PINK, Miyato Kankuro, Tsuchiya Anna and other big-name actors to help out, even if the whole play is a long advertisement. The content of the original novel is profound and rich, so the content contained in the whole play is highly compressed, and it is difficult for the audience to grasp the details without paying attention. Tetsuya Nakajima's shrewdness lies in using unexpected scene transitions to mobilize the audience's emotions, and there are only a handful of long shots. Even when describing the heavy history and the unfortunate encounter of the heroine, it does not forget to embellish some humorous atmosphere. With gorgeous sound and light effects, the audience can say that they have watched a comedy or even a musical, but they will never say it is Documentary. However, the ups and downs of sadness and joy, the elegant and helpless life experience of the heroine, and the huge temporal and spatial background of post-war Japan history can make people not forget to think about the value of life in addition to laughter. The pre-release trailer highlights "The Wife Story", which made Tetsuya Nakajima famous two years ago. Although this film does have the shadow of the previous work in terms of humorous form and musical performance, the prominent feature of "The Wife Story". The youthful atmosphere and independent personality can hardly be used as a standard to measure this film with quite complicated characters and plot.
grey comedy
The story begins in the house of a big boy Kawajiri Sheng (played by Eita) who lives alone in Tokyo. His father came to visit with the ashes of Kawajiri Matsuko (played by Miki Nakatani), and by the way, asked him to pack the luggage left by the aunt who had never met before. Taking this as an opportunity, Sheng began to collect all kinds of information from the neighbors where he lived, and Matsuko's life experience slowly surfaced. She became a middle school teacher after graduating from Matsuko University, full of fantasies since childhood. The kind and honest she was dismissed from the school in order to cover up the crime of theft for her student Ryuuichi (Yoseya Yusuke). Feeling embarrassed, she ran away from home immediately and became involved with the talented writer Yamegawa, who indirectly caused her break with her family and ended in suicide. She immediately became Okano's mistress, but soon broke up due to Okano's family problems. The solitary pine nuts became a bathroom girl, and she gradually failed to keep up with the changes of the times and became unemployed again. The impetuousness of her new boyfriend Onodera made her upset and killed him on impulse. On the way to escape, he meets the hairdresser Shimadzu. The simple love makes Matsuko unable to extricate himself again. However, he was arrested a few days later and sentenced to eight years in prison. After she was released from prison, she ran into Long Yangyi, a former student, and finally couldn't bear Long's pursuit. She followed him in underworld activities for many years. Soon Long was arrested and imprisoned, and she also suffered a leg disability. After being released from prison, Long refused to meet her again. Since then, Matsuko has lived a decadent and dark life. For a time, she did not respond to Genji's love, and the help of her close friend Megumi Sawamura could not stimulate her enthusiasm. When Ryu finally woke up to Matsuko's love for him, he was told that she had been killed on the banks of the Arakawa River.
The tortuous and beautiful life of Kawajiri Matsuko is the axis of the whole play. But shooting a comedy with such dark, dull, and even cruel story lines and era backgrounds in some episodes is undoubtedly huge. It is precisely because of this that the whole drama has always used wide-span camera switching to downplay the grief: Matsuko witnessed the tragic death of the person she loved with her own eyes, and felt that her life was hopeless. , Matsuko wearing a pink housewife dress, while singing "my life is so beautiful", while shopping, cooking and cleaning with spring breeze. When expressing a dull plot, use an idealized environment to make up for it: eight years of prison life swept past with AI R&B, the atmosphere of the prison has a qualification examination training class, the cafeteria occasionally provides cheese scones, the female prisoners Dressed in a neat bright blue coat, sleeping under a red and green striped blanket, even the workplace is bright and spacious. Of course, there are also plots that are purely set up for the audience to laugh. This time, Tetsuya Nakajima slightly changed the way of inserting animations directly as in "The Story of the Wife", and switched to using sound effects similar to cartoons to match the characters' rapid and exaggerated actions or language. You can often see the flames emerging from the chest or the petals flying all over the sky.
Advertising sound and light effect
The pursuit of advertising is to impress the audience in a short period of time, so how to make effective combination of vivid pictures and background music is the eternal task of advertising directors. In keeping with the heroine's naive fantasy, flowers, bright moons, birds, butterflies, soap bubbles and gypsophila are often featured on the set only in fairy tales. In order to exaggerate the appeal of the picture, the light-dark contrast and color saturation of most of the shots in "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko" have been fully or partially enhanced. It is highlighted, the light is projected onto the water surface through the gaps in the leaves, and the dazzling reflection rippling with the water surface, while the pine nuts in the center of the picture are now dejected and lamented that the water level is too shallow, and the sadness and numbness when raising his head It was also emphasized unknowingly. When describing the various stages of Matsuko's life, as the location changes, the corresponding theme colors also change: Matsuko's childhood and teacher times are described with a certain age of history, using old-fashioned yellowish special effects; bathrooms The girl's plot uses a lot of gold and red to match the luxurious background; the prison shots are replaced with bright blue the same color as the prisoner's clothes; the period of the depraved life is dominated by black, which also makes the brightness of the ending appear more intense. In terms of contrast between light and dark, you can often see spotlight effects similar to stage plays. Before the death of pine nuts, the large grass on the banks of the Arakawa River and the wildflowers dotted in it are emphasized in this way.
The music in the play is provided by Warner Records, and there are 18 theme songs and 21 background music including the remix. The entire film is only two hours long, with an average of more than three minutes for each "song" or "song", which can be regarded as a novel musical. Because the plot and symbolic meaning of the whole story are too huge, switching the pictures according to the rhythm of the music and using the lyrics to strengthen the artistic conception will help the audience to remember and deepen their understanding. The inmates in the prison wake up and turn off the lights at the same time. They are arranged like dominoes. They lie down and get up one by one. Even the actions of drinking soup and ironing are matched with the melody. This plot is almost completely made into a dance drama.
Faithful historical features
Matsuko's life is too legendary to make the audience feel immersed in it. Director Nakajima used the expression method emphasizing historical scenery to resonate with the audience. The whole play spans the entire post-war Japanese history in terms of narrative time, and faithfully reproduces the architecture, music, costumes, movements and even language of a specific era. Having a certain understanding of modern Japanese history and folk culture will make it more interesting to watch. sex. Matsuko was born in 1947, at the end of World War II and the implementation of the Japanese Constitution, which clearly reminds us that Matsuko's life condenses Japan's post-war history: Matsuko represents the post-war generation, which experienced a period of rapid economic growth and a luxurious bubble economy. , the sluggish and degenerate period after the 1980s, but also negative social phenomena such as the last homeless problem. In the middle school where Matsuko teaches, there is a teacher named Saeki. He wears white sportswear all day long. He has a bright voice, white teeth, and a lovely smile. Every time he greets someone, he never forgets to lift his trouser belt. It's a little exaggerated for the sake of comedy, but this rather rustic look was a symbol of a good man in the 1970s. The background music of Matsuko and Saeki-sensei is a famous song by Nakayama Chika, and the warmth associated with it can only be understood by those who have experienced it. Osaka Expo, one of the symbols of Japan's high-speed economic growth, is condensed into the tower of the sun pendant on the pine nut handbag. From the beginning of his teaching career, he has gone through various ups and downs until his death. The whole play has highlighted this ornament many times in important plot twists, and sometimes its existence is hinted by its bell ringing, which is a kind of inspiration and wake-up for the audience. certain symbolic meaning. Obuchi Ezo publicly announced the Heisei name on TV by pointing to the big characters of the ink book. This was originally a symbol of the new era. It is chilling that Matsuko gradually lost his youth and passion since then. In addition, the historical events mentioned by TV in the play also include the first oil crisis in the Middle East, the retirement of Shigeo Nagashima, the death of Hibari Mikura, spacewalking, Hikaru Genji and the three Danzi brothers.
despised love
"The value of a person is not what others do for you, but what they do for others." The whole film measures the value of pine nuts according to this standard. Matsuko has been a girl who loves to sing and dream since she was a child. Many people grow up and experience the cruelty of reality and slowly lose it, but Matsuko's worldview is always simple and idealized. It is not mentioned in the plot whether Matsuko is religious or not, but she seems to be influenced by some subtle influences in teaching children sing songs in middle school. She can "pray for the people you hate from the bottom of your heart", and love everyone is naturally completely defenseless against them. . The younger sister Kumi asked her, "How is Saeki-sensei?" She replied intoxicatedly, "Well, his teeth are shining..." This is her pure value standard. For her lovers, Matsuko always has no reservations and always has a vision for a better future. For the first time, she fell in love with a hysterical writer. She tolerated all violence and cut off ties with her family, but she was looking forward to him. Suicide; then fell in love with Okano, and what he got was the beginning and the end; he cooperated with Onodera, but the other party betrayed his promise; he relied on an ordinary barber, but the other party couldn't wait as long as her; fell in love with Long Yangyi, but fell into the underworld Disputes; obsessed with popular young idols, and finally let it go. For the children, she is devoted to her education, covering up the students regardless of the danger of being dismissed. Even in her depression, she never forgets to remind the children who are addicted to play at night to go home early, even if it is a stick. For the family, she endured her father's partiality and her younger brother's meanness. Although she had only one relationship with her nephew, she still tried her best to fulfill her duty as an aunt. To friends, she is considerate and gives encouragement and avoidance at the right time, but several times the chance is unfortunate. "Why?" Every time she was on the verge of collapse, she asked herself, she has never been ashamed of anyone, is gratuitous love incompatible with the values of the world? No, she was still understood by Long Yangyi and Sheng. The former was enlightened by the Bible and the priest, while the latter discovered the soft and sincere heart behind her loneliness and eccentricity. The body is still sleeping in the flower coffin, but the soul climbs the stairs leading to the kingdom of heaven with the accompaniment of the chorus of the crowd. At the moment when he truly faces his father's smile and Kumi's greetings, Matsuko finally fulfills his life's hardships. dream to pursue.
Matsuko's eyes that were highlighted when she taught the students to sing vaguely resembled the noble and pure princess temperament in "Roman Holiday", and she went through ups and downs like "Gone with the Wind". "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko" can't be compared with these predecessors. Some scenes are messy, and some scenes are changed too quickly to make people feel at a loss, but the expressiveness of the pictures and music reflects the strong style of Tetsuya Nakajima. , viewers who like "The Story of My Wife" can't miss it.
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