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biggest nightmare after growing up is still dreaming about the classroom. I dreamed that I was directed by the teacher to the blackboard to solve the problem during math class. It was a killing moment. I was breathing against the graphite blackboard and watched the teacher's smile fall from my face. A skinny person, I was swirling with a piece of chalk - so when I saw Taeko in "A Fairy Tale of Time" being confused about the molecular formula, I was very aware. It's a pity that my dreams have never been fulfilled. I'm looking forward to dreaming that a taller self can complete the questions on the blackboard for that childhood me. Just like Taeko.
One's constant reminiscence of childhood seems suspicious to me. From the first moment she left the city, Taeko began to recall every detail of what happened in fifth grade, every first time. It was the first time I ate pineapple, the first time I was beaten by my father, the first time I was liked by a boy, the first time I heard about menstruation... She was always pulled back by her childhood self in similar scenes, and she took the next step. steps, as if these actions had been hinted at in the distant past. is an inevitable result. Although it is experiencing some real problems that are magnified and set high. The final decision and completion of these things, as said in the film, is still the same self that has always been in the past. Even when making important decisions, you actually need to listen to the opinions of that childhood "self".
After laughing, I feel how much time has moved between the two "me"? Maybe almost none. Listening to the opinions of your own childhood is like listening to your inner voice. So Taeko and I did the exact opposite: she was using her 5th grade self to solve her problems as an adult.
This cartoon movie makes people feel old, immersed and dyed in the old background color, and the patterns drawn in childhood gradually become clear and three-dimensional in the water of time. That's what Taeko did when he left Tokyo for the countryside. The episode of picking safflower seeds left a very beautiful and deep impression on me. I can't believe there is such a wonderful job in the world. Together with those farmers, she squeezes the collected petals into juice and extracts its pigment in order to get the "red color". "It takes 12 baskets of safflower seeds to get one gram of red..." Such lines are outrageous. Next, they painted on the fabric, and after passing the water a few times, the pattern finally emerged.
The film is always a parallel of two timelines, drawn from one end to the other by some similar details. I'm afraid everyone has had this feeling in their lives. This is the best contribution of time and human memory. As with the sunlight, the colors on those fabrics finally became concrete. When Taeko was on the train, he was horrified to see the 5-year-old self curiously sticking out a small head from the carriage. This feeling of being watched all the time, the feeling of time being intertwined, is really beautiful and sad. Two completely different bodies staring at each other, whether the content of this gaze is "lost" or something else - fortunately the film does not discuss this issue in the end. Gong Qijun's intention is to make the two selves get along in harmony, unite, and face this common front together.
Xiao Miaozi was picky eaters willfully, carefully picking out the onions that she didn't like to eat and arranging them on the plate one by one, I couldn't help it when I saw this. It's so much like when I was a kid, except that I threw all the spinach I didn't like under the bed. At the same time I was wondering, what made me stop doing this when I grew up? Spinach hasn't been mutated to be more palatable, but I've learned to eat it consciously and enthusiastically. It's hard to tell if this is the lost part or the gained part.
It seems that all childhoods are essentially the same. It was the first time that Taeko was adored by a boy. From the window of the campus building, he saw the boy playing baseball on the playground. Being coaxed by the classmates and writing the names of the two people in the bulletin column, the two of them were all red with excitement - the cuteness of the cartoon, after seeing the two of them confessing for the first time, Taeko's little heart The first fresh gift she received in her life, she took to the sky happily and flew up... I followed her and flew. Compared to his childhood self, isn't he just replaying a few short dialogues from a certain boy he likes repeatedly in his heart?
"Do you like sunny days, cloudy days, or rainy days?"
"Cloudy days."
"Like me."
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