Many years ago, I wrote my feelings about "Love Letter". Love the way Shunji Iwai expresses it in this film, the story of love that is gradually sketched out under a lot of coincidences. Coincidence is a kind of beauty in literature, film, and television, turning what people expect in their hearts into the truth in the story. It is also not very beautiful. After waking up from the dream, you can't help but feel a sense of loss. If you can fall into another long dream, it will be very good.
Years later, after quietly watching "April Story", I also found another beautiful answer. The same Iwai-style movie, with the slowly flowing piano sound and some subtle details of light and shadow without too many plot ups and downs, is similar to Haruki Murakami's slow narrative method and Borges' novel "Let's talk about left and right." His approach presents a simple story. It is still about the theme of love, but it no longer revolves around coincidences, but delivers more peace and tranquility to people's hearts, confirming the existence of life with simple youth.
The girl named Yu Ye Maoyue is ordinary, with a girly smile and a shyness that seems to be seen everywhere on weekdays. Her life is one many people have built around them. moving company staff. The female neighbor next door. University classmates Friends of the fishing community. Even strangers. She always faces everyone with sincerity, which makes people feel warm. Maybe some people could not respond to this kindness at first, but she was finally moved by it. Her warmth is like the cherry blossoms in April; even if a petal falls lightly on someone, it is a kind of happiness.In addition to these, Yuye also has a secret about love, which is always in his heart. Originally, her grades were mediocre, and she was not favored by the teacher. She took the test from Hokkaido to Tokyo. In the shaking carriage, she held Kunikida's book, silently muttering in her heart, and as soon as she arrived in Tokyo, she inquired about the location of a bookstore. All this has always revolved around those three words, Musashi. These three words may mean a lot, but they can also be turned into simple sentences. That's where he lives now, who is a year older than she.
After much searching and waiting, she finally saw him for the second time in the bookstore where he worked. When they met for the first time, he was busy looking for books for customers. Although the two were so close, her heart beat fast, but she couldn't speak. But God is always favoring this relationship. When he took the book from the shelf for her and got off the escalator, he saw her face clearly, and when checking out, he asked about the high school she attended to confirm his memory. There is such a girl. The two of them chatted naturally. Yu Ye shyly said at the college freshman meeting that he was very cheerful, and it was only at this time that he saw it. She was originally so satisfied that she didn't expect anything. It was the rain that got heavier and heavier that she finally took the broken little red umbrella he handed her and left. Holding an umbrella, she silently thought about the miracle of love that she came to Musashi in the rain.
The story ends in the faint picture of the downpour, Yuye's smile, and the broken little red umbrella, and this picture has been imprinted in our hearts. There is no need to force a complete ending for many things. For example, does he know that she likes him so much, and will they eventually come together? These are not important, although the aesthetic needs of reunion also reflect our yearning for happiness. 's mind. Yuye's love for him that has always existed in his heart is a kind of beauty. Even if there is no coincidence in life, you can still find the long road in the future because of this clear love. In fact, in everyone's heart, there is a Yuye, who will often silently think about the person he loves, and then tell himself where he is with some immature words that he can't help but think of.
Yuye said that the picture of him playing the guitar in the field, like the mural on the wall, was nailed to the wall in his heart and could not be removed.
how about you?
If at a certain moment when it is raining, he meets you without an umbrella, Would you not mention your feelings, just gently take the small red umbrella that might be broken from him? And after saying goodbye to him, he smiled and recalled this warm memory alone.No matter what you choose, it will also be a beautiful display of love.
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