If you just watch the subtitles without turning on the voice, and the opening scenes make you feel like you are watching another "Dongdong's Holiday" or "Sad City", I don't think Hou Hsiao-hsien and his old man will have any opinion.
Most of the shots throughout this article are extremely calm and fixed panoramas, and the most recent shot is only Makiko Ekaku looking sideways in front of the door of the old man next door when he returns home. The sense of distance created by the distant characters and underexposed film, as well as the faintly audible electric hum in the soundtrack, all make one can't help but calm down from the 120b+ electronic rock music.
The lost bicycle is an introduction, an introduction to suicide, which represents her husband's current frustration and the rupture of his childhood life, as well as all the injustices and frustrations her husband has suffered. As a wife, Makiko is more peaceful and considerate, and her husband Tadanobu Asano, as a loser in the social competition, his hatred and hatred of himself will increase day by day. He desperately uses his work to escape this. In reality, he desperately tried to escape Makiko's tenderness at work, until one day he decided to escape forever into a peaceful, dreamless sleep.
Then, the rest of the story is that Makiko, who was left behind, tried to survive with doubts, self-blame, fear and anxiety after killing her close relatives twice because of her own reasons.
The railroad train in the city is a powerful and irresistible social will, crushing the existence of a young couple and a small bicycle, and crushing the body of the husband and the soul of the wife. Marrying into a remote village is the path a wife chooses to survive.
The beautiful depiction of rural life is the author's preference, but the haze in the wife's heart has not dissipated because she has not found the answer. A visit back to the city revealed the shadow of this deliberate escape, and the shipwreck of a fellow villager further aroused her fear of loss. But after asking her husband for help, she found that her husband also had a deep obsession with his deceased wife.
So she ran away again. But never had the courage to really run away.
On the dark and gloomy escape route, she encountered a funeral procession. At the seaside with the setting sun setting, in the smoke of the cremated corpse, she finally confessed her secret question to her ex-husband to her husband who was chasing after her, but in exchange for her husband's ambiguous answer, phantom light.
Just like what Murakami wrote in his most famous novel, when a person arrives at a certain point, he suddenly thinks of death, and he thinks of what he has to go and do, as if he suddenly thinks of a natural task. Same.
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