Snow Falling On Cedars, adapted from the well-known American writer David Guterson's best-selling novel of the same name, was filmed in 1999 by the famous American director Scott Hicks, who was nominated for the Oscar for best director with "Shine". The film is nearly 130 minutes long. The innocent childhoods of two children from different races and different cultural backgrounds; outspoken and sad love; the cold and cruel reality of the adult world; the estrangement between race and family; the bloody and cruelty of war; the humility and displacement of the weak ; the contests of justice and injustice, reason and prejudice in peacetime are all fully handled without being tedious and dull.
It is worth mentioning an important image in the film, the bright red strawberry that recurs with the heroine. Many directors use fruit for symbolic sexual innuendo, and in Snow Falling On Cedars, Scott Hicks uses strawberries. Yes, the strawberry used to be so bright red, just like her when she was young, the pain and struggle of love and sex were all highlighted under that bright color. It's just that when the strawberries are ripe in the next season, the girl has become a woman; and she, after all, has become someone else's wife. As a result, the distant memory and the yellowed photo of her being selected as the strawberry princess are undoubtedly the most disappointing nostalgia for him. Many times, the emotion is not at the moment of weeping.
The style of the film is soft and freehand, with frequent use of slow motion and flashbacks, and montage is skillfully applied to the back-and-forth between reality and memory, without being abrupt and abrupt. Young Ethan Hawke (Ethan Hawke), his face is almost transparent by the ice and snow, his facial contour is clear and handsome, the horizontal line between his eyebrows is not obvious, his eyes are shining, melancholy and dreamy, not like the banter of today with bleak.
