turned out "April Story" this season, and it was really aimed at the director Iwai Shunji. Naturally, it was because he had the same expectations for this film as "Love Letter". After that, he was indeed not disappointed. Although it does not surpass the "suffocating, tear-jerking" aesthetic of "Love Letter", it is still so fresh, so pure, and so moving.
In April, when it is warm and cold, the sun is so warm and bright; in April, Xu Zhimo The faint love with Lin Huiyin; April, APRIL, a name that many beautiful women have used; April always seems to give people a feeling of romance, beauty, and hope, like a hazy youthful age..."Fourth" Moon Story unfolds soothingly in such a season, as tender as a prose poem. In
Tokyo in April, cherry blossoms dance, and the petal-covered streets seem to be covered with thick snow; in Tokyo in April, there is no The city is bustling, noisy, and powdery; Tokyo in April is calm, pure, and pleasant... This is the Tokyo seen in the eyes of the heroine Yu Ye, just as pure as her heart. This is thousands of miles from Beihai Island. A female student who came all the way to Tokyo to study, you can't see anything outstanding about her.
She seems to be just like you when you first entered the university. Shy, shy, unnatural and uncomfortable with the new environment: she was at a loss when she was moving furniture; she was blocked by careful neighbors; she sat in the opening ceremony and listened to the excitement of the principal When I was asked about myself, I was embarrassed that I didn’t know how to answer it; I clumsily refused the warm invitation of my new classmate; I was embarrassed and fled at the cinema…
You can’t help admiring Iwai, He is so precise in grasping the details of life that leave no trace. As he told people in an interview: what he likes is the thoroughness and extremes of this subtle knowledge, as if walking into a room full of chairs, but Go scouring some corners. That's what he did.
However, after half an hour, you gradually lost patience with Iwai's slow-moving narrative of life. Yes, this girl lives quietly, watching movies, visiting bookstores, and riding a bicycle. Lane, sitting on a bench reading alone, cooking alone... wait, oh my! What exactly is this guy trying to explain? This kind of traditional thinking logic of "writing the truth" was finally aroused, and it began to be disturbed, challenged and questioned... At this time, accompanied by a torrential rain, the mystery was finally revealed.
Yamazaki, the busy boy in the Musashino Bookstore, finally recognized Yuye in an instant: "Are you a junior at XX High School?" Yuye held the new book, nodded shyly and smiled. It's as if Ah Shu in "Love Letter" was so excited when she saw her own sketch behind the bookmark. All the clues implied in the narrative finally connected into a complete and clear clue. The moment when the protagonist and the audience are suddenly enlightened.
You are realizing the hidden thoughts behind Yuye's quiet and elegant, as if she is embracing an unknown secret, and the warmth is rippling in her heart, so that she shows such devotion and enthusiasm to the ordinary life, She has been working hard to embrace every corner of Tokyo, with a bit of clumsy energy, even if she reunites with him, so close to the border of her dream, she still maintains a calm, restrained and forbearing temperament. I would rather run in the rain and go back to the bookstore to borrow a broken umbrella, and then I shouted out my thoughts in the rain: because of Musashino, Yamazaki created today's miracle of love and was admitted to the university of his dreams.
The heavy rain in April knocked down the cherry blossom trees, wet Yuye's messy long hair, drowned the green love confession, soaked the whole misty youth...
When Yuye stood in the rain and looked at Yamazaki And for the moment of laughing, do you need any extra words to explain? Perhaps it is warm to embrace love and decide not to be understood. This is Iwai's interpretation of youthful love. Just like cherry blossoms, withering at the most splendid moment, not stained with dust and holiness.
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