From "Love Letter" to "April Story" to "Flower and Alice," every movie has its moments, but none of them would make me a classic. Ten years ago, when I was an innocent little girl, my patience was not enough to endure the slow and procrastinating rhythm and delicate and subtle emotions. Ten years later, when I could finally calm down and have a sense of admiration and criticism. When I looked at it with my eyes, I found that I could no longer appreciate and indulge in such pure beauty. Watching the right movie at the wrong time, or the wrong movie at the right time, is not a perfect explanation for that. From what I can see, it's probably not the time or the movie itself that is wrong, but the irreversible thoughts and mentality of me watching the movie at that moment. Accustomed to analyzing and evaluating emotional entanglements and psychological activities between characters in an objective and rational way, suffering from emotional deficit disorder is just one of the sequelae.
Undoubtedly, I like Alice, she is kind, fresh, lovely, simple, and growing up in a single-parent family, she is more precocious and understanding than flowers of the same age. She is like a clown, good at hiding her true emotions, not deliberately to please others, but used to put on a mask to indulge others, the purpose is just to make the people she loves and cares happy, so people only see her optimism , innocent and happy, but not aware of her loneliness, entanglement and sadness, which is why she who is always reluctant to take off her mask is more lovable. Alice Qihua pretended to break up with her for her boyfriend, but still accepted the absurd proposal of Hua to play Miyamoto's ex-girlfriend, she lied to Miyamoto for Yuanhua's lie, and in order to Yuanhua's lie, she kept weaving it. A series of lies, and finally got caught up in their own lies and turned them into reality. He couldn't help falling in love with Miyamoto, and was exposed because of this, falling short.
Alice is undoubtedly an excellent actor. The love story she wrote, directed and acted in real life is so moving that she may have almost been deceived by herself. However, what is interesting is that her countless auditions have not been able to actively work hard. She failed because of her devotion to acting, but instead became a magazine cover girl because she became herself. When she tied her feet with paper cups and tape and danced, she seemed to be the only one in the whole room. She was like a swan, playing freely and unrestrainedly on the lake with melodious music flowing, shining with warmth and warmth. Dazzling light. How much she enjoyed this happy time. She didn't lie, she didn't suppress, she didn't hide, she didn't have to force a smile, she didn't have to worry about hurting anyone, and she didn't have to hesitate between friendship and love. Her natural beauty from the inside out moved the audience. All the staff moved the beautiful girl opponents who looked down on her, and also moved the harsh and wretched interviewers.
I admit that I don't like flowers, that her selfish lies hurt her beloved Miyamoto, putting him in a predicament on the verge of a psychological disorder, and at the same time taking advantage of friendship and framing her good friend Alice. However, when Hana cried and confessed everything to Miyamoto and wished him and Alice happiness, I couldn't hate her more. She was an ordinary girl, with an ordinary appearance and an introverted personality. She was not as good at ballet as Alice, who she learned together, but such a girl also has the right to like boys and fight for lovers, doesn't she?
Flower is inferior, and we know from the beginning that when Alice joked about leaving her "brother", she didn't even dare to tell Alice that she did like "brother" in the same joking way. Staring from a distance, stalking candid photos, joining a cross talk club that girls are not interested in at all, all she can do is just that. She is so careful, walking on thin ice, and wrapping the budding heart in layers, and because of this, when she told Miyamoto that he had confessed to her, we were no less surprised than Miyamoto who petrified on the spot. . What a bold and incredible thing for Hua to tell such a lie with the cheek! "Love really needs courage to believe that we will be together." At that time, Hua never even thought that love would have such a powerful force to force her to make special actions that were different from usual.
From another point of view, the strong love makes Hua uncontrollable longing for unreserved love Miyamoto, longing to have the same care, consideration and love as Miyamoto, but afraid of being rejected by Miyamoto after confession, afraid that he will never be able to In the face of Miyamoto, becoming the girlfriend of Miyamoto who has lost her memory seems to be the only way to help her achieve her wish. No matter whether the lie that blurted out was a flash of inspiration or a direct reflection of a long-standing subconscious plan, she was not allowed to overthrow herself on the spot, not to mention that the lie did bring her the opportunity and happiness to be in close contact with Miyamoto like never before. . But who would have thought that things would go out of control like dominoes once they were overturned. Pulling Alice into the water did not make the situation develop as she expected, but even nearly lost her good friend. Hua's tears contained remorse, guilt, grief, sadness and emotion. At this moment, she realized that this was the price of love.
It's not just a love story, it's a story of youthful memories and growth shared by two girls with a boy, and a test of friendship between two girls. What is friendship? Friendship is to exchange thoughts and share joys and sorrows; Friendship is to share weal and woe, never betray; Friendship is to take each other's happiness as happiness and each other's pain as pain; . God arranged the appearance of Miyamoto, which is a test of the friendship between Hua and Alice. Fortunately, they passed the test and learned more about the preciousness of friendship. Just like the names of these two girls are used as the title of the film, the love in this film is simply a foil for friendship. However, we still make our own assumptions. When the proposition of friendship encounters love is put in front of us, will I passively avoid it or make a decisive choice? In fact, it doesn't matter whether you like flowers or Alice, what matters is that they have more or less reflections of your own shadow, similarities in personality, ways of expressing emotions, understanding of love and friendship, or the answers to the above questions.
This film adheres to Shunji Iwai's consistent style both in the picture and in the music, which is misty, agile, meticulous, and beautiful. Not only does the script creation jump out of the usual triangular romance theme, but also the narrative of the story unexpectedly creates a relationship with "Love Letter". To "April Story" is completely different light and interesting, quite a bit of joy. Aside from that, one of the film's greatest strengths is the selection of the right actors. The image of Miyamoto portrayed by Guo Zhibo is feminine, dull, and dull, with a weak appearance and a swaying heart, always in a confused and chaotic free state. The two heroines are even more impressive. Aoi Yu is pure and lovely, with a sweet smile and an idol temperament, while Suzuki Kyo does the opposite and deliberately looks ugly to be close to the unremarkable features of the characters.
However, compared to the triangular relationship in the film, the discussion about friendship, love, youth, as well as the image and acting skills of the actors themselves, I am most interested in the psychological issues involved in the film, which is why this film is different from similar films. of charm. First of all, the lie that Hana and Alice wove to Miyamoto is tantamount to a valuable psychological experiment. I don't know if it is appropriate to describe the subject of the experiment with words such as "three people become tigers" or "true and false", but Miyamoto's reaction is indeed very interesting. What kind of feeling, whether he likes flowers or Alice, has also become a topic that audiences are willing to debate, which shows that human memory is a complex and interesting psychological research object. So, does the lie between Hana and Alice affect Miyamoto's perception and judgment of love? If so, how deep is the impact? Still waiting for professionals to answer.
Secondly, Miyamoto also mentioned his dream twice in the film. If you try to interpret the dream according to the information disclosed in the film, you will find that it is not difficult to understand. The first dream was that Hana was taken away by the police. The police are representatives of justice, fairness, and authority. The arrest of Hana means she did something wrong, which is to deceive Miyamoto here, which shows that Miyamoto has a sense of what Hana said. Doubt, did not fully believe, and did not want to believe, but hoped to have a trusted person to confirm his doubts. The second dream was that Miyamoto was chased and fled by the incarnation of the caterpillar, the flower, which showed Miyamoto's attitude of boredom, rejection and even fear towards flowers. Following the flowers was a burden, burden, and entanglement that he could not get rid of. Dreaming of caterpillars instead of other more beautiful or disgusting insects also shows that Miyamoto also thinks that flowers are too ordinary and lacks attraction to him.
View more about Hana to Arisu reviews
