Chinese translation ("When the Cherry Blossoms", English translation "Cherry Blossoms")
Director: Doris Dörrie
Release Date: 19 February 2009
Highly recommend a German film "Kirschblüten - Hanami" ("When the Cherry Blossoms"). The 2008 Bavarian Film Festival Gold Award, the 2008 Berlin Golden Bear Award nomination, the 2008 Busan International Film Festival, the Seattle International Film Festival, the film is currently showing in South Korea.
German town. An old couple. The eldest son and daughter have gone to work in Berlin, and the youngest son is far away to work in Tokyo. Worried about her husband Rudi's terminal cancer, the wife took him to see their children and grandchildren in Berlin. Unexpectedly, the old lady suddenly left first. In this life, the husband, who was usually indifferent, took the clothes and necklaces left by his wife and went to Japan, where his wife always wanted to go. Dressed in his wife's favorite nightgown and painted with powdered flour, he fell down by the lake under Mount Fuji in the dance of conjuring his wife's soul.
In this outline of the story, you have seen the shadow of "Tokyo Story". Yes, in the movie, the daughter's gay girlfriend accompanies the old couple to visit Berlin, the girlfriend goes to the countryside to visit the widowed old man, what happened to the old couple at the house of their eldest son and daughter in Berlin, the last time the two watched a few scenes of the sea, it was almost from "Tokyo". Cut from Story. Whether in the East or the West, grown-up children appear to be indifferent and cruel to their parents, indifferent and refusing to understand. Ozu expresses the helplessness, gentleness, and subtlety of life, and the oriental way of forbearance (at least in appearance) about death and the responsibility after death. After all, life has to go on. In the West, the theme of death is darker and heavier, and cannot be avoided.
I like "When the Cherry Blossoms" more than "Tokyo Story". Not because of my attitude towards death, but probably because I'm the kind of person who loves to do it. Love must be expressed, communicated, and responded. Even with the deep affection in his heart, if he doesn't express it, he is like a hollow person. However, we humans are so clumsy at expressing our feelings! I fell in love deeply, buried it in my heart, and shouted a few times to the foreign tree hole. It seems that only through a song, a dance, a letter, or an image can we connect life and death and bring love back to life.
The charming old lady in the movie knew that the old man was good and loved him all her life, but the old man had to wait until his wife died before he realized it. When the old lady was alive, watching a play, the old man would rather wait outside the theater than watch it with him. love and death. Feeling love after death. In "Tokyo Story", we see ourselves as fat, loving grandparents with a bad memory. Are grandparents still in love with each other? Yes, from life to death, it is more sincere, heavy, and heart-piercing than when I was a teenager.
Tokyo. The youngest son is really ridiculous. He works in the office building and asks the old man to wait for him at the bar opposite. The old man waited until it was dark and no one came. Tie the blue handkerchief ironed by the old lady on the railing to mark it, and go around by yourself. Japan, a country that has everything. The conjuring dance of a stray girl in the park, the realistic lower body of a pole club, the bubble bath in an adult hotel, there is no old lady. And this is the country she's coming to. The old man was just an ordinary person who went to get off work and got off work, and he didn't have any big ambitions beyond ordinary. Now he just wanted her to see all this, to see her. But how to cross the door of life and death and stick to her face?
Fortunately, the cloud-like cherry blossoms are in full bloom. The old man looked up at the cherry blossoms. What a warm bloom, desperately blooming, only once in a lifetime. And it's blooming, it's nice. The old man and the old lady acted really well. To students, to love so naturally nostalgic, reluctant.
My favorite scene is the Baltic Sea. The old lady is afraid of the old man's cold. She takes off the right sleeve of her blue sweater and puts it on the old man's right arm. The two of them lean against each other and wear a sweater. The old lady passed away in a dream that night.
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