Mayfly struggles in love between existence and nothingness

Cara 2022-04-21 09:03:23

The camera movement and lighting in this film are excellent, and Bae Doona's acting is even more icing on the cake - Hirokazu-eda's original words are "world-class actors". In order to prevent the film from being politicized due to its documentary style, Li Pingbin was invited to do photography. Different storylines lead to multiple layers of thinking, all revolving around the themes of "emptiness breeds possibility", identity and ontology, love values, and "life has its own flaws that need others to fill." The heroine Xiaowang's soul and body seem to have been pulled away. She carefully touched the wind chimes, avoiding the transparent shadows under the lights, discarding the pump that symbolizes the past and outdated identities, holding the earth and drifting away from gravity. , staying, learning, adapting and chasing, and after learning to refuse, he pulled off the tape and breathed his breath greedily... And the male protagonist, the otaku host, as well as the old man and the many "mayflies" in the film who lived a difficult life, lining the The film is tender and delicate, with the beauty, authenticity and brutality of group portraits. Breathing and wind chimes are used throughout the film. Like an intention, in the end, the "non-burnable garbage" sent away the "burnable garbage", and lay in the garbage pile with another "non-burnable garbage" in his arms. The sun hits, and in the fantasy, she is surrounded by people around her, living her dream birthday. She was finally able to shed tears, but failed to blow out the candle. Fortunately, the dandelion took off instead of the paraffin vapor that was extinguished by the candle, bringing light and luck to all the "Mayfly" like a sacrifice.

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Air Doll quotes

  • Nozomi: It seems life is constructed in a way that no one can fulfill it alone.

    Nozomi: Just as it's not enough for flowers to have pistils and stamens, an insect or a breeze must introduce a pistil to a stamen...

    Nozomi: Life contains its own absence, which only an other can fulfill...

    Nozomi: It seems the world is the summation of others and yet, we neither know nor are told that we will fulfill each other...

    Nozomi: We lead our scattered lives, perfectly unaware of each other...

    Nozomi: Or at times, allowed to find the other's presence disagreeable...

    Nozomi: Why is it that the world is constructed so loosely?

  • Nozomi: Having a heart was heartbreaking.