April · Story

Xzavier 2022-03-18 09:01:09

In an infinitely beautiful movie about a secret love, Shunji Iwai once again truly captured the young girl's astringent psychological emotions and immersed the pure and elegant breath into her heart. In April, the cherry blossoms are colorful and the flowers are scattered like snow. Mao Yue, who started a new life alone, introduced herself shyly, joined a fishing club, waved her fishing rod with the wind, rode a bicycle, walked between the cinema and bookstore, sat on a bench in the countryside, read a book, and invited her neighbors to join Eat curry rice. The painstaking efforts and the sudden heavy rain finally achieved the "miracle of love", and what is more touching is the details in life: a spot of light on the wall after the door is opened, empty seats in the theater and flashing projections Light, secretly peeling off the label on the locker of the graduate student, the hidden thoughts, the hair fluttering with the breeze when reading alone in the green field, the warm sun shining on the cheek through the shade of the tree, the appearance is silent The surging glances in the heart, and the broken umbrella that the guests left behind. (9.0/10)

Brionna 2022-02-27 08:01:38

For those of you who got bored and shut it down after watching 48 minutes, I want to tell you how sorry it is. It seems that everyone has a secret love, and it is as beautiful as the cherry blossom rain in April; but it seems that few people have said it, and they just approach it in their own way. At the end of the film, it says: There is no accident in the world, only inevitable. Shunji Iwai's 67 minutes only told this extremely simple story, with no beginning and no end. Isn't that the case with many secret loves?