It is not a story-telling-oriented film. It mainly depicts the character’s state of mind facing the separation of life and death. It uses a lot of sounds and symbolic objects to link each paragraph. All the details are emotional stacks for the heroine. "Phantom Light" tells the story of Yumiko facing the sudden death of her husband and remarrying to a town in the countryside by the sea. Continuing his responsibility to take care of the children while hiding his grief, he is also healing little by little in the new family life.
The movie starts from Yumiko's dream. In the dream, her grandmother leaves Yumiko. In the first 7 minutes, the proposition that Yumiko can't keep the people around her is accurate. Yumiko, who woke up from the dream, turned her head and asked her husband: "Why did grandma leave?" Husband: "I am not the reincarnation of grandma." Echoing Yumiko's future separation from her husband.
It continued for 10 minutes, laying out the daily life of Yumiko and her husband's love, bicycles, bells, trains, and the loud sound of the grandfather next door, all of which became the common mark of husband's love. When the good ends, the imprint becomes a sharp blade, and a person faces the time they once lived alone. After 20 minutes of the movie, the mourning process of the bereaved family of Yumiko's suicide begins. The new life after remarriage is based on the image of the sea, and it moves forward with pain as a last resort.
The sea is the new chapter of Yumiko's life. In order to adapt to the new people and things, she has to freeze the past and share the same starting line with the surrounding. Only when she is alone, you can see the details of Yumiko's secret sadness, looking out the window as always, waiting for her return. When she returned to the place where she lived with her ex-husband again, the bicycle, the bell, the sound of the train, and the sound of the train flowed in front of her, and the pain never advanced. Take away to life today.
The script ingeniously creates a turning point in the chapter of the sea. On a stormy night, the sea is ruthless, will the people around you never return? The railway is the old soil, the sea is the new branch, the hurried knock on the door in the rainy night, like the sound of parting bells, cleverly strung the bridge between the past and the present, the past and the present no longer cut each other, coexist, Yumiko finally shouted at the beach " Why did my ex-husband commit suicide?" Echoing Yumiko's question to the audience at the beginning, "Why can't I keep my grandma?" The train goes to the sea, the future is the sea, the sadness of the past still remains on the railway, the bones of the track are buried, and the heart is also sacrificed for love, let the train run over with the beat. Can you not say goodbye to the past, say goodbye but really say goodbye, still stay outside the window, staring at the untouched factory, the figure of the past is in front of you.
Don't let the new life corrupt the past. The heroine asked her new destination: "You love your dead wife so much, why do you want to marry me?" Just as I love my husband so much, why should I marry you? Souls that fall out of the window will never come back. The desolate coast follows the funerals of others. If I don't dislike it, I would like to watch the deceased leave together.
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