This year, I watched a total of seven shows, all of which belonged to different countries. Due to the screening of imdb.com website scores, the movies are all of a certain level. However, if I want to choose the best set of works, I still recommend the work "I Wish" by the famous Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda, which is temporarily translated as "miracle" in Chinese.
Having seen the director's other works earlier, such as the award-winning "Nobody Knows" (Nobody Knows) and "House of Yokoyama Taste", I really have high expectations for the new work. The storyline of I Wish is simple: the protagonist and his younger brother, who is also in elementary school, have their own opinions after the divorce of their parents. The elder brother (Kagoshima) who lives with his mother is eager for them to be reconciled as before, and he discusses with his younger brother (Fukuoka) a plan Change the status quo. It happened that I accidentally "heard" in chemistry class how the miracle occurred: it appeared at the moment when the Shinkansen "Swallow" from Kagoshima bound for Fukuoka and the "Sakura" in the opposite direction crossed. So they figured out that the train would meet in Kumamoto, and on the same day, they made an appointment with a few friends - each with a different dream - to witness the moment of the miracle and make their own wishes.
The implementation of the plan is of course difficult, and it has naturally become the backbone of the film, such as raising train fees, deceiving teachers from skipping classes, and finding a location to watch the elevated train, etc. The director spent most of the space to describe it. , realistic and humorous, making the audience feel the innocence of children in laughter, especially when they are walking in the countryside of Kyushu, under the blue and broad sky, next to the large golden rice fields, the whole picture symbolizes the purity of the unity of nature and man. flutter. Despite this, the laughter is also inevitably sad, after all, these youths have long since left me.
The result was that the children who had overcome all odds managed to reach the railroad track and waited for the train to meet for a moment. Under the warm sunset, the two trains passed by and created a huge airflow. They both shouted the most eager "wish" in their hearts: to become a star, to run faster, to have the most powerful spinning top, and so on. Only the protagonist didn't say anything at that moment. In the picture, he only left a pair of empty pupils and an indescribable loss.
At the end of the film, the child returns home, and the little girl who wants to become a star tells her mother, who has been a past person, to leave Kyushu and go to Tokyo to develop a star career, while the protagonist still lives with her mother and continues her journey of life.
In my opinion, what the director is trying to say is: the miracle has happened, just as the protagonist withdraws his wish. It turns out that the miracle does not lie in the realization of dreams, but in the realization that "some dreams cannot be forced". Or to put it simply, it is the maturity between thoughts. What is maturity? Maturity is the mentality that there are some things I didn't have before, and now I don't want to have it anymore. I believe this sentence is more appropriate in this film. This is often the case in life. We set a number of goals, and then pursue them desperately, but when we get them, we find that we have lost our original desire and original intention.
In contrast, the performance of the little girl symbolizes other dreams, but dreams that can come true require grasping and persevering dreams. From the beginning of self-doubt to the finale, the girl's affirmation to her mother reflects the quality of these dreams: instead of retreating because of the passage of time, after thinking deeply, she is more determined and keeps working hard until the dream comes true. real.
This is probably my personal understanding of the film. I hope that it will be released in ordinary theaters in the future, so that more Hong Kong people - especially busy office workers - can feel the warmth of the story and savor its meaning.
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