"The sky is cold and blue, and the north wind is called Kusang." In the cold December, I miss the days of spring next year. In winter, only watching movies can make up for my full expectation of spring. Therefore, when we are looking forward to spring, it is better to watch a "April Story" to relieve anxiety.
Spring Day, Spring Rain, Spring Cherry Blossoms
In Shunji Iwai's film, "Love Letter" lost death and first love in the snow, while "April Story" poured out girlish feelings in Tokyo in April, where the cherry blossoms are full of gardens.
"April Story" was released in 1998 and has a total of 67 minutes. The story takes place in April, April in Japan, when freshmen enter school and the cherry blossoms bloom. In the movie, the windshield wipers of the car wipe away the cherry blossoms, and several cherry blossom petals can be shaken out of the clothes.
The cherry blossoms in the sky are especially matched with the feelings of girls. The 17-year-old girl Yuzuki Uzuki came to Musashino University in Tokyo from Hokkaido to study. When she first arrived in a big city, she slowly got in touch with her classmates and neighbors. Looking for a Musashinodo bookstore in Tokyo.
cramped · clumsy · sincere
From warmly approaching her neighbors, shyly introducing herself, to being pulled into a strange fishing club by her eccentric classmates, Yuno, a newcomer to Tokyo, appears cramped and awkward, yet endearing and sincere.
When she introduced herself at the beginning of the school year, when Yuno was asked why she came to Tokyo from Hokkaido, she hesitated. Also, because of the habit of living in Hokkaido, she wore a red sweater that did not match the season. When her male classmates teased "Isn't it hot to wear a sweater", she bowed her head shyly.
When a person was watching a movie in the cinema, the approach of the strange man next to him scared Yuye and ran out of the cinema.
At that time in Tokyo, people seemed to be a little weak, and people would be cautious about interacting with people.
After moving house, Yuye greeted her neighbors warmly, and the neighbors would cautiously lock the door after she left; Yuye invited her neighbors to eat more curry at her house, but she would be politely refused.
Even the mover said, "No one will come these days."
But Shunji Iwai will not blindly express the estrangement and indifference between modern people.
Neighbors will think for a long time after rejecting the invitation, and finally apologize to Yuye guiltily and accept the invitation to share curry; when it rains heavily, strangers will be willing to lend Yuye the only umbrella; strange uncle chases the biker Yuye, just to return the book she left in the cinema before.
As Yuzuki Uzuki said when introducing herself: "I think life is bright."
In the movie, the realism of reality will be blended into every frame of beautiful shots as much as possible. The audience is immersed in it, and feels a touch of sadness like "moistening things silently".
Musashinodo Bookstore
In the first half of the film, Uzuki Uzuki leaves her hometown to study at Musashino University in Tokyo, and rides a bicycle to find a "Musashino Bookstore" on the streets of Tokyo.
In the second half of the film, when asked by classmates if he liked someone, Yu Ye replied, "I'm just in love with one another." Then he recalled his high school crush experience.
It turned out that Yuno came to Tokyo because the senior who admired in high school was studying at Musashino University in Tokyo and working part-time in the Musashino Bookstore.
Friends say that Musashino University is a famous university. For Yuno, Musashino University in Tokyo represents the senior.
At the end of the film, at the Musashinodo bookstore, the senior recognized Yuno, and it rained heavily outside the bookstore. At the beginning, Yuye, who was just recognized by the senior and still in a happy and excited mood, turned down the senior's kindness to borrow an umbrella. However, when she was hiding from the rain outside, after Yuye received a black umbrella lent by a stranger, she bravely tried again. Run back to the Musashinodo Bookstore.
The senior took out a bunch of umbrellas from the bookstore and handed her a red umbrella.
Through an interaction in the rain, the director handled the girl's mood in a period of secret love in a particularly vivid and natural way.
A red umbrella hides the girl's secret love.
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