"It is said to be the depression of the lonely autumn,
Said to be the memory of the distant sea.
If anyone asks the cause of my troubles,
I dare not say your name. "
The wife, who was smiling and cheerful at first, fell into an inexplicable emotion because of her husband's suicide. In addition to the shock of death, there is also an incomprehensible parting. People who are obviously by their side every day, who are clearly facing themselves with a smile every day, why would they choose to end this path by themselves? Have I been facing his mask all the time? Is the happiness just my imagination? We cannot question the will of the deceased, which makes it all the more painful.
But life will not press the pause button intimately because of your pain. The days continue without giving you a chance to breathe. The son is still growing up and needs someone to rely on. Even though she was still immersed in pain and gloom, Yumiko still chose to remarry, go to another place, and form a new family with another bereaved man, together with that sadness.
The director likes to zoom out, sometimes far, sometimes high, sometimes flat. The scene becomes wide, and the moving person or thing becomes very small, and between this vastness and smallness, it is the profound meaning of human life and the whole world.
The director is also committed to expressing the trivial details of life, which is even better than the later popular work "The Thief Family". For an ordinary life scene, he can spend dozens of seconds to immerse the audience, as if from the movie. Into life, and from life back to movies. He slows down time and makes us realize that even a trivial movement is actually smeared by time.
After Yumiko was healed by time, she began to feel love and warmth again, but a huge shadow always shrouded her. When she heard that grandma, who was still smiling and said that she was going to bring you crabs in the morning, might drown in the sea, a shadow of deja vu suddenly shrouded her, and she felt a huge uneasiness. From the perspective of others, it was just worry, But in fact it is not, it also implies the fear that the night tide generally keeps coming.
The director also often focuses on other ordinary people in the film, which is telling us that, except for the protagonist Yumiko, everyone's life has its own story and trajectory. So when we learn about our current husband and his ex-wife, it suddenly dawns on us that grief is never alone. Everyone has their own grief, and carry that grief to live on.
In the end, Yumiko looked at the boundless sea and finally confided to her current husband, "Why, why did he commit suicide? I just want to know why."
The current husband said, "Everyone has their own magic light, it is so bright, it attracts people, it attracts people as if it can sacrifice everything."
For his dead ex-husband, what was he attracted to? We don't know, the description of the ex-husband in the whole work is a side profile, we only know that he is an ordinary man who is gentle and polite, and laughs when he is happy. We all know his evaluation from outsiders. We don't know his inner thoughts or what kind of person he is. Everything is only from the perspective of others.
Is this not reality? We cannot fully understand a person because he is himself. Even the audience who are omniscient when watching the movie, as long as the characters are unwilling to reveal it, we can't get a glimpse of what the ex-husband is thinking when he hears the train whizzing past.
The whole work is as long and beautiful as prose, but sometimes the rhythm is really too long, as if it is still. It is too easy to be distracted, and it is not very friendly to the viewing experience of ordinary audiences.
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