In the season when the cherry blossoms are colorful and fluttering, the tram slowly swaying, and the girl leaning against the door to read in the soft sunlight. "I fell in love with her at first sight." Nanshan Gao Shou made up his mind.
The soft sunlight in front of the slow camera has long longed the small flames dancing in Gao Shou's heart. "If she gets off at the same stop as me, I'll take the initiative to talk to her." The murmuring feelings flowed in the shy inner monologue, gently plucking the audience's heartstrings. They naturally got off at the same stop: "I thought it was you, and I felt that I had to bite the bullet and talk to you, otherwise nothing would happen." s story.
Accompanied by the naughty or affectionate reverberation, and the beautiful day and the warm atmosphere of the date. We met again in the zoo, shared memories of the treasure pond, the wonderful date in the alleys of Qianmo, the brave confession under the lantern tree, tidying up the new home together, shopping and cooking together, the lovers gradually became close enough to help each other cut their hair, and then spent a good night together. The ordinary and surprising daily life makes the audience feel like they have returned to the youthful time when they were restless and ecstatic.
In the first third of the film, the selection of natural environment and humanistic scenes are mostly bright or warm places, and the layout and setting also try to create a space for two people in a simple style. The camera lens uses a large number of medium shots and over-the-shoulder shots that fit the perspective of the characters, naturally substituting the audience into the male and female protagonists. In the presence of the scene, the audience can always keep their eyes on the shy, kind, dull and wise Nanshan Gao Shou and the ghost horse spirit, and the lively and beautiful Fu Shou Ai. During their time together, they also cut into many telescopic panoramic shots, which richly and soothedly embellished the delicate relationship between Gao Shou and Aimei, and smoothly connected the development of the plot. The two people's increasingly intimate and rapidly heating up relationship also incorporates enough and timely close-ups - Amy's happiness overflowing when she eats delicious pizza, Amy's relief when she sees that Gao Shou has treasured the tin box she entrusted to this day, and the beautiful moonlight. The temptation when the next two held hands for the first time and the love of beauty when they shared a bed together contained tears of gratitude and pity. These moments have frozen the bits and pieces of each emotional stage of the two. Under the dazzling white sunlight that is used to the extreme in this film, Komatsu Nana and Fushi Sotai are light on the characters' expressions, demeanor and language. Such meticulous, vivid and precise and appropriate character carving, I believe that many boys and girls will also have the urge to fall in love with them at first sight.
The superficial fate and infinite beauty always contain a touch of sadness and mystery: every time Amy's "see you tomorrow", there is a little bit of sadness; Amy never uses a mobile phone but a landline or A public phone; Amy often speaks prophetically about what's to come; Amy has to be home by 12 midnight; Amy always sheds tears at odd moments. It was not until she deliberately left the notebook at Gao Shou's house in accordance with the past that the 25-year-old Gao Shou told her about the past, the karmic mechanism of the two of them surfaced. Although the director did it deliberately, the settings related to the timeline were indeed not expressed clearly enough. In more than half a year, the author has watched it about seven times, constantly discovering new small details, analyzing it for a long time, and came up with two versions of the world view.
The flow of time As depicted in the movie, the time of Gao Shou and Amy go in opposite directions, meeting every five years, and each meeting is only 30 days short. The film tells the story of the two most beautiful 20 years old in their respective time dimensions - it is also the only time when the two people meet each other as a couple at the same age. Every day that Fushou Aimei and Nanshan Gao Shou get along, they have a time axis in the same direction as Gao Shou, but at midnight, their memory is emptied. This new day is Aimi's yesterday from the perspective of Gao Shou's timeline. Naturally, she will not have future memories. On the contrary, for Amy, from her timeline perspective, what she encounters every day is yesterday's. longevity. Therefore, it can be seen that Aimei's sad and sighing breath and reluctance to part are gradually reduced in the later period, and more of it shows yearning, gratitude and consciousness. The second possibility is that there are countless parallel worlds on each side of the timeline of Gao Shou and Aimi, and the male and female protagonists of each world are divided into the smallest time unit, because they have to contact each other in advance to cause and effect each other, love. to be doomed. However, this is more terrifying, because the two sides meet each other every day is not the same person, but from another parallel world, of course, fortunately, every Gao Shou and Aimei are so pure and authentic , kind and brave, the confession and determination of both sides subtly transformed this little "thriller" into the courage to love each other on the last day.
As for why the time when the two meet will definitely rub the spark of love, it is because both parties saved the other party who was unfortunately in danger when they were 35 years old, and in every rare meeting, they kept deepening their love for each other. miss. (Judging from the content of the film, it seems that the 5-year-old Amy is in love first - of course, the film only shows this part, it is not necessarily that the 10-year-old Gao Shou fell in love with the 30-year-old Amy) However, the author thinks that the plot is a little cruel to Aimi: she met Gao Shou in the studio on the first day, Gao Shou vented her emotions to the fullest, and in the last few days, Gao Shou and her gradually got better, and Gao Shou basically lived very happily. , and she has to gradually adapt to the increasingly shy and distant Gao Shou in the future, until the last day, when she met him at the tram station for the "first time" and said "see you tomorrow" with tears.
After Gao Shou learned the truth of the matter, he experienced a collapse that lasted for several days. When visiting the Rui Garden Art Museum with Aimi, he still couldn't bear to have no memory of yesterday. Can you? Just do the bare minimum, like helping each other in fifteen years, just do this." He also rudely left her, intending not to see her again for the rest of the day. .
Fortunately, Gao Shou's best friend Kayama Masaichi (played by Masada Higashiide) is always like a golden key. When Gao Shou is often caught in a tangle, he opens up his locked thoughts and straightens out his chaotic emotions - even Gao Shou invites Aimi's first The second date was also a success with his encouragement and guidance. In the laundry room, he noticed that the relationship between the two was frozen, and sighed casually: "The moon and the earth, in a sense, always miss each other, separated by the same distance, surrounded by each other but never close. If they are lovers , it must be very painful. You can still meet and talk, and communicate well." Gao Shou immediately replied: "The moon will stay four centimeters away every year." "Then let's make it clear now." Zheng Yi encouraged. After Zhengyi left, Gao Shou recalled that Aimi always shed tears at wonderful times - the first time to have sex, the first hug, the first time calling each other by name, the first time holding hands timidly, the first time It was the last time for Amy to gather up the courage to confess: she had been under enormous pressure and constant suffering all the time, and she insisted on doing it even in pain, all to meet the current Gao Shou. Gao Shou, who had come to his senses, flew home in the early morning, and called Aimi: "I have crossed over, and I have overcome all this. This matter is actually very pure, it will be so painful, but I feel that I can cross the line It's because I love you so much, Amy."
Along the way, and the precious destiny that is about to go, they must go down together. The two of them cherished and cherished very much, and spent the few remaining days: they visited Fushimi Inari together, cooked together, tasted matcha cake rolls together, walked along Kamo River, jumped stones together, held hands together in Running on the stone bridge, attending the reunion of Gao Shou art class together, meeting Gao Shou's parents together and taking the precious and only family portrait in the tin box that Gao Shou treasured. Even if the two know what will happen, they are happy when they are happy. Gao Shou and Aimi, who cannot return to 20 years old, create memories together and connect towards each other's tomorrow. They did not pass by, they were two opposite ends of each other's fetters, becoming a circle and becoming one. Gao Shou and Amy share the same fate.
On the last day of his high life, he invited Amy to be her model. He wanted to devote all his thoughts to Amy during these thirty days and keep her in his paintings. What he did was not destined to happen. And Aimi also wants to abandon the story that 25-year-old Gao Shou told him, and let Gao Shou, who has vivid memories so far, tell her the more detailed and heartfelt bits and pieces of the two. Then, the irreplaceable 30 days of Amy began like this.
The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Longwen July. The original book has been reprinted 26 times and sold more than 1.5 million copies. No wonder Takahiro Miki, the well-known director of the Pure Love series, was wandering in the bookstore, and when he saw the title of the book, he had the urge to tell it to more people through the screen. ", such a long title is the undisputed seeded adaptation. Another longer-named novel by Qiyue Longwen, "I Was Kidnapped to a Noble Girls' School as a "Sample of the Common People", has also been adapted into an animation.
Although "Tomorrow's Me Dates Yesterday's You" may draw on British author Mark Chandborn (the author is too small to be found on Wikipedia) published in 2011, "The Night is Long, and You Where will it go? ", but the difference between the two is also very significant: the female protagonist in the Japanese work will grow up and grow old, and every day they meet, they have the same time as the male protagonist, while the female protagonist of the British work will have an accident the day after tomorrow. The opposite timeline, and it doesn't seem to be getting old; the day-to-day and a series of activities the two get along with each other are worlds apart. But if some people insist that the similarities are "plagiarism", how can Mark Chandborn not be suspected of "plagiarizing" Francis Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"? In fact, innovation in various fields is not about how similar they are, but how different they are.
As a master of pure love-themed works, director Miki Takahiro is very wise in handling the plot of this film, deliberately weakening some logic and details, so as not to let the audience get too entangled in the entangled timeline, but from the beginning to the end. Substitute into the screen, experience the interaction and interaction between Gao Shou and Aimi, to capture and experience just the right frown, smile and careful heartbeat. In this way, it not only poured rich emotional changes, rendered enough love atmosphere, set off the deep affection and firmness of the two, but also avoided disturbing the rhythm of the film due to the complex and entangled worldview in the limited time, and lost direction and focus.
One of the most commendable things about this film is that it does not blindly show the bitterness, but subtly writes the emotional ups and downs of the two protagonists in one shot. In the shaping of Gao Shou, the director gave him a certain arc of personality: after learning the truth, Gao Shou went from doubting to understanding about love, from relieving acceptance to facing it firmly. The coherent and subtle emotional changes of Gao Shou greatly enhance the real touch of the characters and the credibility of the story. As for the portrayal of Amy, the director has been carefully depicting it from the beginning to the end with a subtle and silent mentality, dissolving its emotion into each iconic scene, making Amy's suffering and grief like a guide for a chronic disease, aching faintly.
As key clues, the film is often interspersed with time-related imagery: the mechanical precision of the clock, the ticking of the ancient clock chanting slowly, the hands hesitating between the moments, the hourglass rushing down, electronic clocks and mobile phone time The property is reorganized and jumped, and the tram announcer broadcasts on time. The passage of time has fatally pushed the plot forward.
The music of this film is rich and profound, and it is also an unforgettable existence, which can be described as one of the souls of the film. The music composed for the film is the famous Japanese pianist and dancer Takuya Matsutani. The music composed for this film is delicate, gentle and vibrant, grand, distant and delicate and warm, and always touches the softest part of the heart inadvertently. The clear waves are rippling, and the affection is long. In addition, the director also has careful consideration for the style of Kyoto, and the dreamy feeling created deliberately turns the ordinary flash into an extraordinary memory and future, and every frame is extraordinarily fresh and beautiful.
With the help of the director's ingenious skills, the deep-seated propositions of the original work are looming in the film, inspiring the audience, but at a distance of a fingertip. Living in the moment, this is the deeper meaning that Qiyue Longwen and Miki Takahiro want to convey to us. Lonely and bitter two hearts are destined to meet and inevitably separate, but they will always burn for each other. In the time and space of the staggered cycle, the encounter every five years is a new one. The two sides always want to break the barrier and try to convey even a little bit of warmth, only 30 days are missing for each period of time.
No need to walk on thin ice, no need to accurately plan the future, enjoy the moment, live in the moment, measure the world, feast on the world, indulge in poetry, waste time, go deep, and make a perfect match. We do not look forward to every beautiful story, we cherish every precious moment. Many times, there may be no results, but we collect such memories and hang a beautiful bottle for our tree of life.
Fei Ying thanked for a year, and the flowering season is here again. Just looking forward to here, just in time to pass, even if the vicissitudes of life.
At the end of the film, Amy, with anticipation and disappointment in her arms, trotted in small steps, daring not to be late, and stepped on the tram to the starting point of the story.
Her eyes followed the swaying carriage, and Amy took a long sigh of relief after she stood still. Before Gao Shou turned around, she hurriedly took out a notebook from her satchel and pretended to be reading it seriously.
The morning and sunshine are still as comfortable and beautiful as when we first met.
Amy looked out the window contentedly, raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and said in her heart, "I'm finally here with him."
18.11.2018
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