As mentioned above, the director hardly wastes every shot. If you want to break down the details of the movie, you have to write down the script of the movie and analyze it sentence by sentence.
The film tells us that the protagonist is ill, and it is very serious, but the protagonist still plays with the children in the corridor while waiting in the hospital, pointing out the cheerfulness of the protagonist, but even at the end, he does not know what the specific disease is. After watching the illness, the protagonist came to his alma mater, recalled his childhood, and the photos of the children in the back took a group photo to enlarge. Asking about his relationship with his former girlfriend, etc., all show the protagonist's love for life. We can also think that the protagonist's desire to live in his heart is just buried deeply by him. For the nostalgia of childhood, we may think that the reason why the protagonist stayed in the small photo studio at that time may be that he thought that photos could retain everything, including love, and wanted to retain the good memories of childhood before leaving the photo studio.
There are not too many scenes for the protagonist attending the funeral of his friend's father at the beginning of the film, but there is one sentence that cannot be ignored: he goes, we have to live. I thought this was also a sentence that the protagonist has always memorized in his heart. For the sake of the heroine's good life, the protagonist did not send the written reply letter. For the sake of his father's future life, the protagonist wrote down all matters of life and work. Speaking of which, this may be the reason why the protagonist lives the rest of his life with a smile. He is dying. If he is sad all day, it will not help, and it will bring unhappiness to the people around him. Therefore, the protagonist can only live when no one is there. A man covered his head and wept heartily.
Not to mention the love with the heroine, the sweetness of love and the context of emotional development are shown everywhere. The love shown by chatting with ex-girlfriends, the brother-in-law relationship shown when eating watermelon with my sister, the family love that only sleeps quietly beside my father in the middle of the thunder and raining night, the friendship between eating and drinking with classmates, outings and taking a group photo at the end, All of them are incisively and vividly performed by the director inadvertently.
The protagonist is seriously ill, but he has always been meticulous about his work, treats every customer seriously, and accurately shows the protagonist's attitude towards life. If you only regard "August" as a love story, you will feel sorry for the director in private.
The director has really made every shot not wasted, and made my expectations for the director, which is one of the few works I have seen.
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