Born to be human, I'm sorry! This is a sentence that Osamu Dazai reflects most deeply in people's hearts. People always come to this world ignorantly, bearing the fate of being overwhelmed, the emotions, dreams and themselves that cannot be picked up. There is so much pain, so much powerlessness! It seems that living is a kind of petition to the gods, but how humble this is!
When elephants foresee that they are going to face death, they will look for the elephant mound where the gods directed them to go, and silently wait for death. Why would an elephant do this? This is also the mystery that Yumiko has always kept hidden in her heart. Just like when she was young, she did not understand why her grandmother ran away from home and went to Shikoku, where she silently welcomed death. How can a child who has just come into the world understand! Death is beautiful! Yes, it is beautiful, because all beauty is the cruelest thing in the world. Beauty is a fleeting illusion, an explanation of all nothingness, and a mourning for the world after death. It was Hirokazu Kore-eda that year and was deeply influenced by Hou Hsiao-hsien's art. In "City of Sadness", there is such an interpretation of death: In the Meiji era, a girl committed suicide by jumping over a waterfall. Brilliant youth, I am afraid that once it disappears, I don't know what to do. It's better to be like cherry blossoms, when life is most beautiful, leave the branches with the wind. Although the cherry blossoms of the same luck are flying, I will come later, everyone is the same!
Suicide is always a mystery that sinks to the bottom of the sea, so that those who are still alive cannot understand it. However, many things are often like this, and you will never understand. Just like Yufu's suicide is an unspeakable fate for Yumiko. Why is Yufu going to die? why? He and Yumiko are so in love with each other. Although they live in poverty, they are very happy! Is Yumiko's love so flickering to Yu Fu? That night, as usual, Yufu went to the coffee shop that Yumiko often went to, had a very peaceful cup of coffee, and then walked peacefully to the middle of the railroad tracks on the way home, and walked towards the speeding towards him. The train ended his young life. Yufu left nothing, and if he left anything, it would leave Yumiko the bells she plucked from the bicycle. This bell is Yumiko's lifelong pain.
Japan is a very special nation. They are the nation that knows how to truly appreciate beauty. Japanese philosophy is often like this. When a person feels beauty with one's heart, it is like opening a Pandora's box at that moment. A person's soul will be sucked by beauty in an instant, and at that moment, a person is a body without a soul, that's all. This is the sadness and beauty of things that the Japanese often interpret. This beauty is a life-threatening thing! The Japanese are different from the Germans, they never look at things positively, they look at everything very pessimistically. At the same time, the Japanese have a belief in death, they believe that after death, people will go to a beautiful and illusory world. This is why Japanese soldiers gather to die on the battlefield, leaving no thought behind.
So, what did Yu Fu see when he faced the train that hit him? The light emitted by the headlights of the train seemed to be a beam of light in the dark, how charming this light was, as if it was the kind of fantasy light Yu Fu had been looking for for a long time. Facing the light, Yu Fu seemed to let go of everything, let go of Yumiko, all his thoughts were gone, and he walked towards the light of illusion, reaching the other world he was looking for in his fantasy!
Of course Yumiko didn't understand. She took a bell and married her child to a small fishing village. She and a man named Minxiong continued her life in confusion. Minxiong is also not rich, but at least he can give Yumiko and her children a home and a basic support. Yumiko and Minxiong got married to escape the pain caused by Yufu's suicide, but she also inadvertently learned that Minxiong came to this fishing village to marry his ex-wife instead of his father. Yumiko loves Minxiong, and she seems a little jealous of this casual detail. She felt that she was not the only woman Minxiong had ever loved, but Minxiong also inadvertently asked Yumiko, "Aren't you either?" The bell sounded like this mysteriously in the hearts of Yumiko and Minxiong.
That evening Yumiko looked at a row of mourners in the distance, she still did not understand, did not understand why Yufu was going to die? Whenever the bell rang, this mystery made her heart ache like a knife. Until that night at the seaside, Minxiong told Yumiko a story: his father often said that whenever he came to the seaside alone, he would see a beam of light, and he felt that the sea was calling him!
Phantom Light! Phantom Light! Yumiko seemed to be relieved, Yufu didn't die, just went to the world in his fantasy, because of a beam of light, he just went! Yumiko in dark film is time to say goodbye to Yufu. It was growth that made Yumiko understand death! It was Hirokazu Koreeda's "Phantom Light" that was processed with cold-tone film from beginning to end. Every shot has color but no light, but this doesn't mean there is no light, but Hirokazu Koreeda's film tells people that light is fantasy. Middle, illusion, disillusionment!
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