Phantom Light: Say goodbye

Ellis 2022-09-24 09:40:02

The most painful farewell in the world may be to say goodbye without saying goodbye, or an unknown parting, one year, ten years, maybe one lifetime, goodbye, maybe we will never see each other again.

Regarding
the beginning of the grandma's film, the heroine's grandma kindly and firmly said to the heroine, "When grandma dies, I want to die in my hometown of Shikoku, so I am going back to Shikoku now." "Grandma wants to die in her hometown, so I must go back to Shikoku. ." Grandma left, and there was no news, leaving only a lonely back, and never came back. And the heroine has always felt guilty, regretting that she didn't stop her grandma's insistence to leave, and she has been unable to let go of that back, which turned out to be a goodbye.


About
the appearance of Yu Fu, the heroine's first husband, Yu Fu is always related to bicycles. When the two were children, the heroine first saw Yu Fu riding a bicycle through the dark alley, and the heroine went again at night. When I came back from the bridge where I separated from my grandmother, I saw Yu Fu pushing a bicycle under the street light. When the two got married, the two painted the bicycles they rode back from the baseball stadium together, and a bunch of bicycles left after Yu Fu committed suicide. key.
Yu Fu in the film always likes to ride his bicycle, he always rides his bicycle very fast, crossing the railway crossing where the railings are about to be released, galloping forward with the moving train on the road facing the railway, and suddenly Stop and watch the train rumble past. Yu Fu not only has a persistent love for bicycles, but also has his own persistent yearning for trains.

When Minxiong, the heroine's second husband, explained Yu Fu's departure to the heroine, he said,
"He once said: 'The sea is calling you.'
Dad used to go out to sea, and he said that when he went out to sea and felt lonely, he often You will see a beautiful beam of light, flashing and flashing in the distance, beckoning him. I think this can also happen to anyone."
This may also reveal that Yu Fu has an incomprehensible yearning for trains, attracting Yu Fu insisted on going forward on the railway and ended his life.
The day Yu Fu left happened to be a day when it was going to rain heavily. It was gloomy and cold. Yu Fu went home to put the bicycle and took away a long umbrella. The hostess watched her husband downstairs. Yu Fu left, leaving only one. Playing with an umbrella while walking, and even a playful back, also left a question that the heroine could not let go of for many years.

Yu Fu left without warning, an accident prone to suicide, no warning, simple, ordinary, happy and fulfilling life and work, the heroine could not find a reason for Yu Fu to leave, confusion and sadness spread like vines Come, time can only make people gradually forget it, but it cannot stop its growth. One day, it will rewind your heart inadvertently, causing pain and suffocation. The world is always full of helplessness and incomprehensibility, just like the lyrics in "The Future":
When a ship sinks to the bottom of the sea
"When a person becomes a mystery,
you don't know
why they left,
then Goodbye is his last sentence.
When a car disappears into the sky,
when a person becomes a mystery,
you don't know
why they left,
just like you don't know this is the end."

About when
Yu Fu left later, the woman The Lord and Yu Fu's child, Yong Yi, was still in the infancy. When the heroine married again in a small fishing village by the sea, Yong Yi was about to go to primary school, with a new location, a new partner, a new family, and a new life. Everything seemed to be healed slowly over time and returned to normal.
Yong Yihui and his sister, his stepfather's daughter, ran wild and played on the beach in the mountains, from the snow-capped mountains to the abandoned broken boats by the sea, and the wildflowers in the countryside. The heroine is diligent and thrifty and takes care of the elderly. The family sits harmoniously under the eaves and eats watermelons to cool off from the heat. Life returns to ordinary, simple, happy and fulfilling.

However, the life that seems to be returning to the right track is only a matter of appearance. When the heroine returns to the place where she once lived, sees the people and things she used to do, and hears some things from the past, the doubts and confusion in her heart, The pain knocked her down again, what she wanted was just an answer, an explanation, a real farewell, what an extravagant desire.

In fact, what you need to say goodbye to
the heroine is not an explanation, but a farewell ceremony. The grandma who insisted on going back to her hometown of Shikoku thought that she was only leaving temporarily and would be sent home. She thought she was just going home to pick up an umbrella and continue to work In the end, Yu Fu left only a back, a silent farewell.
At the end of the film, the heroine silently followed behind a funeral procession, dressed in black and walked quietly, watching the burning flames silently by the sea, solemn and solemn, this is a solemn farewell ceremony, life Farewell to death, time seems to freeze. The heroine finally understands at this moment that all her inability to let go is because of the hurried farewell of the person she loves, she is afraid, she does not know which side she is with them is the last, and she does not know which time Goodbye is never to see again, so she will refuse her mother's farewell when she is married, and she will also feel worried, anxious and afraid when the neighbor's aunt goes to sea when the bad weather occurs. What she wants is an explanation, and a real goodbye .

The world is unpredictable and the world is capricious. When parting, you should say goodbye more seriously.

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Maborosi quotes

  • Yumiko: It's harder to say goodbye if we keep postponing it.

  • Yumiko: [Recalling her first husband's unexplained suicide] I just... I just don't understand! Why did he kill himself? Why was he walking along the tracks? It just goes around and around in my head. Why do you think he did it?

    Tamio: [after giving it some thought] The sea has the power to beguile. Back when dad was fishing, he once saw a maborosi - a strange light - far out to sea. Something in it was beckoning to him, he said... It happens to all of us.