Do you remember a clip like this? In those young and lively days, two inseparable girls, like a pair of two flowers, fell in love with each other, clinging to each other and growing.
Like Flowers and Alice.
The flower is a girl who is as passionate as a flower, youth burns like a flame in her body; Alice has a fairy tale-like name, a plain face, a little pale, and her long black hair dances softly in the air. Youth is rushing wildly, like a kite with a broken line flying somewhere. The whole world becomes a game between two girls laughing and jumping.
At the beginning of the film, there are two girls walking, both wearing school uniforms, of medium build, unable to tell the difference between each other, the flowers and Alice. From the beginning to the end of the film, they are all images of them walking with each other. There are straight paths and wrong paths in the middle. So real and clear, like a flower in full bloom, its petals open, leaving a scent in the air that can no longer be gathered. Perhaps, at such an age, there are so many girls like this that bystanders, like us, think they are just the same green leaves. However, since there are no two identical leaves in the world, how can there be two identical people? Iwai told us a 130-minute story that allowed us to completely tell them apart.
Everything starts with love.
Do you remember a clip like this? Those best friends who share all the secrets intimately, in those flowery years, love has become all the wealth.
Like Flowers and Alice.
On their way to school as usual, two handsome boys became their talking point: Are they related? Is it brother? They guessed. "I'll give you my brother!" Alice said to the flower. "I don't want it." Hua was a little shy, but her eyes never left him. Alice's joke made her fall in love with the boy who was reading a book on the train. She raised the camera and captured his every move. The occasional glance between him and the other girls in the car made Hua feel inexplicably unpleasant.
And like every girl who falls in love, Hua becomes sensitive and careful. She participated in the school's stand-up comedy club, and her appearance surprised the teachers who accepted the application. It is unprecedented for girls to sign up for stand-up comedy. No one knew, all this was because Hua accidentally discovered that the boys on the train were also in the stand-up comedy club. Although she was a little embarrassed when she entered the door, she still gained something: at least she knew that the boy's name was Masaharu Miyamoto.
Do you remember a clip like this? When you fall in love with someone silently, the astringent and sweet taste slowly grows in your heart. You will hide in the corner and watch his frowns and smiles quietly, and you will stare deeply at the moments you have photographed with him on the computer screen.
like flowers.
Every time I watched Miyamoto sit silently on the ground in the club, hold a book on the train and read aloud, and even quietly followed him on his way home. There is no reason for everything, it is just a wanton and impulsive in the youth. Repeating all these actions endlessly, just for the unknown joy and throbbing in my heart. All of this suddenly took an unexpected turn. Miyamoto stuck his head in the book, but he couldn't see the scroll door dropping down in front of him. The flower that had been following immediately ran to his side, all this was like a gift from the sky, the face that had been in love for a long time was so close to him at this moment.
The scene where Miyamoto woke up was somewhat playful, as if God had deliberately arranged for Hua to have an affair. Brave like a flower, passionate like a flower, of course, I didn't miss this opportunity, and then I told a big lie: don't you remember what you confessed to me?
Miyamoto was startled: Is there such a thing? Why don't you have any impression of yourself? Could it be that he really suffers from amnesia? Miyamoto was taken to the hospital for examination. The results of the inspection came out, nothing out of the ordinary. But Miyamoto was troubled by this: Did I really say that? What was the situation like? Why can't I remember it at all? He threw a bevy of questions to the flower. Hua never thought that she would face so many problems. The lie just now was just her whim, so she could only insist that Miyamoto had amnesia, and she would wait for him to restore his memory.
Do you remember a clip like this? When you are deeply caught in the vortex of emotions, the panic and confusion can only be shared with you by your best friend. Only you and she knows those confusion and helplessness.
Like Flowers and Alice.
Hana and Miyamoto are eating in the restaurant, and Hana accidentally finds Alice outside the window in her own mirror. "Who is that person?" Alice asked Hua curiously, she had forgotten the boy she met in the car. "Senior of the extracurricular activity group." Seeing that Alice had forgotten the chapter in the car, Hua didn't mention it anymore. Back at Miyamoto's side, facing Miyamoto who has no feelings for himself, Hua himself is not sure whether he really likes Miyamoto. At the very least, Miyamoto was already by her side, she dragged him from the world that was infinitely far away from her into her life, and she was unwilling to give up.
Flowers are in a bad mood. A phone call from Miyamoto discouraged Hua before she could be happy. Miyamoto was at Hua's house, and when she was on the phone with Alice, she found a picture of herself on her computer. Judging from the date of the photo, Miyamoto concluded that Hua lied to himself: Did I say I like you? Flowers cannot be denied. Now that the lie has been told, it must continue to be told.
In desperation, she also brought her good friend in: "Those photos were taken by Toruko Sugawara from the fourth class of the first grade, she was Miyamoto's girlfriend before. Later, I appeared, and it seemed to me It was love at first sight, she found out about it, took these photos secretly, and sent them to me as a kind of intimidation..." Miyamoto couldn't take it anymore, and fell into deep confusion, he decided to go to Qichuan Tetsuko asked to understand.
At the door of the classroom, Miyamoto called out Tetsuko Sugawara, and the girl named Tetsuko Sugawara turned out to be Alice. In order not to embarrass the flower, Alice can only help her to lie to a stranger. Alice had a strange feeling in her heart, she didn't like to be involved in such a deceitful entanglement. It was a little strange that the classmates could not see the inseparable figures of the two of them. "Where are the flowers?" The classmates asked Alice. "We broke up."
Do you remember this clip? Those troubles in youth, so inexhaustible, surround you layer by layer, like a shadow, lingering. Even a good friend who is devoted to him is powerless. Will you cry? Or, just smile strong?
Just like Alice.
Alice grew up in a divorced family with an unimaginably cluttered home with a beautiful mother who kept dating all kinds of men. She went to see her father, who had been separated from her mother. Although she was a little estranged from her father, who had not seen each other for a long time, the father and daughter soon became close. When we parted, it was hard to part. When the subway was about to start, Alice said goodbye to her father with a Chinese sentence she learned from her father: "Dad, I love you!"
Except with flowers, she always seemed lonely. When the flowers were weaving hard for her love, Alice seemed helpless, and she began to participate in various film and television commercials interviews non-stop. Whether she succeeded or not seemed irrelevant, she bored to show again and again, she was as jerky and restrained as usual, and the interview seemed to be a program to pass the time, mechanical and lifeless.
Miyamoto was still troubled by his "partial amnesia", and never expected to meet Alice who came to the hospital because of dancing. Miyamoto caught up with Alice, who was leaning on crutches. He wanted to ask clearly, "Are we dating?"
Alice took Miyamoto to the restaurant. The white boat oars rippled the green lake water, and the air was moist and pure. She said to the unfamiliar boy, "Remember? This is where we first dated, where we first kissed..." At this time, Alice, who had been unsuccessful in interviews for art companies, fully demonstrated her performance Talent, although Miyamoto is still skeptical of everything Alice said, but Alice's warmth and cuteness and her innocent smile make Miyamoto feel a little strange. "If this feeling is love, it just confirms the fact that I'm in a relationship with you." He suddenly felt that his memory was gradually recovering, and he hoped that he once had such a beautiful memory.
Do you remember a clip like this? Two good friends go hand in hand, but fall in love with the same person. Love is so entangled and complicated, and all this is like a huge mockery.
Like Flowers and Alice.
The youthful emotions are not controlled by lies, but the heart of the young man is moved by Alice. Love is so inexplicable, and Alice is also involuntarily caught in such an emotional vortex. One side is love and the other is friendship, and the intimacy of best friends is torn between emotional contradictions.
We can't live in fantasy all the time, we can't dance alone in the rain all the time. The lost Ace of Hearts can't be found. The fictional love is like a wrongly found card hidden in the bottom of the drawer. On a sunny afternoon in March, it was accidentally taken out and brought back a sour and sweet smile and memories. Looking up, the blue sky is still there, we are no longer children.
"I love you, goodbye." On a sunny afternoon, the beautiful Alice said to Miyamoto. Miyamoto didn't understand what this Chinese sentence meant, but he read everything from the expression on Alice's face. Love will go as easily as it comes, so light and erratic that it can come to an abrupt end at any time. But we, we watched this relationship, so gently, broken. Just like the afternoon sun, she is beautiful and light.
In the backstage, Hana struggled to tell Miyamoto her decision with tears in her eyes: If the senior really likes Alice, it must be true love, Alice is a good girl, and she will be with her forever. happiness. Shunji Iwai ended a beautiful but unending first love in a simple way, making the whole story less bitter.
But friendship has already taken root firmly. Just like the two girls in the photo, wearing pure white swan dresses, snuggling together, with bright faces like flowers. The taste of youth just gurgled past.
Alice, who got rid of the emotional vortex, went to a magazine for an interview. She was wearing a school uniform, and she was innocently caught in the middle of several women with heavy makeup, looking out of place. She may have given up her hopes too high, so she stood aside like an outsider and watched the other women take turns to play, with a faint expression on her face.
She took off her shoes calmly, taped the paper cups into the shape of ballet shoes, and danced on the uneven floor. Traces of youth wrapped around her, like seaweed wrapped around coral. The sun shines through the window, there is no strong smell, and there is no mottled color, but it makes us unable to extricate ourselves as if we are in a dream. The backlight dyes a mysterious halo on the girl's hair, the background music is scattered like spring rain, and the simple and meticulous melody played by the piano and violin often makes you forget its existence, and softly play it invisibly. To pluck that most sensitive and tender heartstring.
It is not a real world, too pure youth will always indulge in fantasies, the blooming flowers at the door of the house during the pollen season, the dancing and twirling of the dexterous and elegant ballet in the dance room, the wet lightness of the rain hitting the girl's face, The red heart A left on the beach, the growth and love soaked in the years... Just like looking at the photos in the album many years later, we will ask ourselves in a trance: Are those true? Those past events, did they really happen?
The red heart A that can't be found, the youthful years that can't be found, but the innocence is still the same, and the memories are still the same. Alice was finally able to show her grace and beauty in a sunny room, and the little girl who screamed madly became the beautiful girl on the cover of the magazine; the two girls watched and laughed together, and they never seemed to appear between them. over any rift. That love, like a small stream, flowed through them without leaving a trace. Youth, finally settled down quietly.
Just like flowers and Alice, like all the faces that moved us in this youth. When you think of those clips again, do you still have the urge to lean out and play with the fragrance of flowers?
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