In April, among the cherry blossoms in Tokyo, Uzuki Uzuki came to Kurano Takeshi University alone. Yuye's high school grades were not good. Being able to study in Tokyo was a little secret in her heart, and the power to realize this secret all came from the figure of a senior who played guitar in the wilderness - the senior took the exam a year before her. to Musashino University.
Moving house, getting to know neighbors, listening to the principal's speech, mutual introduction between freshmen, participating in clubs, and the ordinary life of freshmen are spread out bit by bit under the camera. Shunji Iwai doesn't seem to be in any hurry to tell the story of the girl in his heart. There is no plot, not much dialogue, and the shots are trivial, but very real. I could feel Iwai's smile behind the screen, a sly and kind smile, in the sound of the bouncing piano. In the film, Yuno seems to love going to a bookstore called Musashino, but she is an introvert, but she often carefully asks the boss about the bookstore's bits and pieces. The gentle air of April was filled with the smell of cherry blossoms, but the audience who saw the movie for 40 minutes was still a little overwhelmed.
"What kind of person do you like?"
"He is excellent and very smart."
"Ah? Yuye likes smart people .
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the girl's mind. It was not until Yuye came to the bookstore for the fourth time that the story actually began, and most of the time for the film had passed. Yuye had a "coincidence" with the senior who was working in the bookstore. Surprisingly, the senior actually remembered Yuye. I am reminded of the surprise of an 11-year-old boy in Love Actually when he hears the girl he likes calling his name, You know my name? Of course I do. This is undoubtedly the best part of the encounter. When it was about to leave, it was raining heavily outside. Our hero did not send the heroine home as thoughtfully as in the idol drama, but clumsily took out the broken umbrella left by the guest and wanted to give it to Yuye. I think most people who have seen this movie will like this scene, Yu Ye under the red umbrella is smiling like a spring flower, the love between the girl and the boy in the rain gradually dissipates, and the movie has reached the end. .
At the end of the film, when Yuye ran back to the museum, there is a detail. I wonder if anyone noticed that Yuye ran through an intersection with a red umbrella. The traffic light happened to be a red light. Dotted into an extremely beautiful picture. That bright red is really beautiful, and one of my favorite colors is red. If I had to choose an umbrella, I would also choose that red umbrella. :)
I have to admire Iwai's ability to control the rhythm of the movie. As an MTV director Iwai, when telling such a warm story, he always lays out seemingly insignificant scenes, and then suddenly at a point, let the audience save money Feelings gushed out in an instant. This point may not be the same for everyone. For example, in "Love Letter", the female Fujii tree shouted on the snowy mountain, for example, in "Flower and Alice" Alice said "I love you" to Miyamoto in Chinese, such as the encounter in the "April Story" bookstore. In any case, there will always be such a point. And Iwai, who is good at telling, is constantly interspersed with small episodes between her and various people in Yuye's college freshman life, neighbors, movers, boys in the club, some neurotic female classmates, and encounters while watching a movie. The suspicious strangers who arrive, the well-meaning old people outside the museum, the densely woven interpersonal lines, and the beauty of human-human relationships fill the film with a certain warm feeling.
Song Takako, who plays Yuye, exudes a tranquil temperament, or, in other words, the heroine in Iwai's movies is often like this. Or she's not pretty enough, but she's beautiful. When I was looking at the cast list, I saw Yosuke Eguchi's name, but after watching the movie, I didn't recognize which one it was. I checked that it was Yuno who played Oda Nobunaga in the movie he watched in the movie theater. -_-b In the film, Yuno watched a black and white film clip for about ten minutes, and this film turned out to be specially shot by Iwai. In fact, Iwai has a very good feeling of making black and white films. I wonder if you can give it a try? Ah. There is also a small episode. The old man Yuye borrowed an umbrella in front of the museum is Song Takako's father. He was born in a stage play and has an extraordinary bearing. In fact, sometimes, it is very interesting to gossip about the information outside the movie while paying attention to the movie, which is also one of my hobbies of watching movies. :)
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