"August Photo Studio" is still the usual warm sugar and water mix of Korean love movies, warm but not greasy, sweet in the inside and pure joy to watch. With the indifferent narrative of long shots and fixed shots, and the "restrained aesthetics" of the consistent Eastern style, death is depicted extremely plainly.
In this late summer and early autumn, by the sparse playground of the elementary school, he began to count his memories, doubting eternity. Everything will disappear, this is the way life is. Fortunately, he has a warm profession, and everyone will smile at him for a moment, and then wait for him to flush out eternity. This profession brought him the magic of calming his heart and saying goodbye to his grief. It's just that he is good at freezing the moment, but in the end he is unable to save the hasty passage of his life.
Love also came in the sweet and greasy August, he held it with joy and trembling, and finally said goodbye to it sadly. But the girl is still shyly looking forward, not knowing that he has disappeared forever. He has known his terminal illness since the beginning, so he picked up his love tremblingly, but let us tacitly understand.
In fact, do you think that if there is no love, it is also a happy thing for a person to prepare for death.
It's just that when love comes, all the unstoppable things are just a man's arm and a car, you can only stand there and smile. You smiled and looked at the girl sleeping on the sofa in the photo studio, just watching, because you know that you can't give anything, you can only use a long smile to drown the helpless sentimentality in the flow of your eyes; you smile and watch The girl outside the window was dancing and talking, and she also waved her arms pretentiously, because you know, this is the only love you can give; Intimacy, the autumn rain is cold, I can clearly see the girl on your chest, red eyes, but, you know, no matter how thick the warmth, you can't give it; you smile and hold the Coke opened by the girl, don't know how to choose, in fact , you know, it's all love in the palm of your hand; you accompany the girl home with a smile, tell funny jokes, listen to the girl, I don't dare to go home alone anymore, you just smile, because, Only you understand the sadness in this smile.
From start to finish, you are alone preparing to die.
Going drinking and chatting with friends, you, who have always been introverted, suddenly urinated in the corner and whispered, "I'm about to die." The friend froze for a moment, then slapped you on the back, crazy. The two men stumbled and stumbled on the empty street laughing and drunk. Finally, they entered the police station with the young man. You walked into your father's room late at night, pulled his quilt over to sleep beside him. In the rainy night, he cried with his head covered. You get angry at your father who can't always turn on the VCR, and then you write a user manual for your father as solemnly as you write a suicide note. You clearly start to fear separation.
You are about to leave. At the last moment of your life, you don’t want to disturb the girl. Through the glass window, you touch the girl’s low-brow and pleasing face and watch her quietly fade out of your life. Be intimate, even if it's just her icy silhouette. You feel her lightly with your fingers, and for the last time, even if you are reluctant, you don't want her to turn around and see ashes. Letters back to her can stack up to a foot high, but they never get sent, because you know, undisturbed is the only way to preserve perfect love.
Will remember many details from this movie.
about love.
The two people's feelings, at their strongest, are just embracing each other under an umbrella, relying on the torrent to move forward.
The most intimate part of the relationship between these two people is that the man tells jokes about his military service in the night walk, and the woman puts her arm into the man's arm.
The most tragic part of the relationship between these two people is that after the man was seriously ill, he was lying on the hospital bed and woke up from a dream. My sister asked, did she dream of happy people and things? It's strange that no woman came to visit. you. The man said, I don't have anyone I care about. The smile on the corner of his mouth when he woke up is still there, but his eyes have hesitantly cast into the distance. The girl, on the other hand, does not understand the disappearance of the man Mo Ming, but only understands the vacancy in her heart. After wandering in front of the photo studio again and again, I finally threw a stone at the glass window of the photo studio. Weeping.
The most eternal part of the relationship between these two people is the last time that the man looks at the girl through the glass window. From a distance, he holds her face with his palm and the person who holds her with his palm. His eyes were full of hope and love, and helplessness.
In this entire film, there are no hugs, no kisses, no heated scenes. Not even a face-to-face "I love you". However, watching their silent smiles, watching them walk side by side for the only time, and watching them shed the same sincere tears in different places, I fell completely into the tender and somewhat depressing atmosphere of this movie. The gentle atmosphere is like a thread that is constantly tightening, binding my heart. It got tighter and tighter until I couldn't breathe smoothly.
I know that you must be in love with that young girl, your old father, your sister who is not good at cooking, and the friends who grew up with you. Otherwise, you won't be alone in the room crying.
But you don't let them know anything. You are just crying alone.
So, my eyes are red, and I actually have red eyes in front of your smile.
Finally, you sit in front of the camera and take a picture of yourself. He buttoned his coat, straightened his glasses, and the corners of his mouth rose at the last moment. You are not dressed like a returning old woman, I know, but you have the same friendship, and you want to leave the most beautiful to the living.
After a long time, the girl returned to the previous photo studio, looked at the magnified photo of herself smiling, turned and left happily. The time is quiet, and the sun is still warm on the streets of the city. If not forgotten, does the previous hysteria represent conversion? Maybe after years, she also understands, maybe the way to be beautiful and eternal is to leave it in the past. Love doesn't matter the truth.
In fact, the movie is not sad, just like the death of love is not necessarily a tragedy.
But, if you never left, whether the story will be incomplete, whether love will not be eternal. So yes, those who meet will leave.
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