1. Narrative Structure - Reality, Memory and Film
Reality: That is, the time and space when Fat Brother and the photographer went to the mountain villa to interview Chiyoko, as the starting point of the narrative, and the other two layers are based on this reality.
Memory: This level contains two contents, one part starts with Chiyoko's self-report, her memory before her seclusion is also the main line of the story. The other part is Fat Brother's memories, which are divided into four parts, ① the new cast member ② Chiyoko loses the key for the first time ③ Chiyoko loses the key for the second time ④ The dialogue with the policeman who killed the painter. These two parts together build the memory world shown in the film
Movie: It is the time and space that the various movies starring Chiyoko have assembled. In the movie, the movie world appears as an integral part of memory, but it is different from the memory world. It is not real but a fictional plot. It is in the timeline. The construction of the film is jumping, and the plot of the film is deliberately weakened, but the plot of finding "him" is constantly emphasized and repeated. Jin Min's characterization of this time and space level is an important method and way to express Chiyoko's belief in life.
(ps. Chiyoko's films are just like the development history of Japanese films, from the beginning of being keen on costume films to disaster films and monster films derived from the fear of war, and then family films influenced by the "sorrow of things" complex, to With the rapid development of economy and technology under the support of the United States, I began to have a vision for science and technology, and produced a sci-fi film)
In the process of recalling Chiyoko, the three time and space are interleaved. First of all, the key and the earthquake are the keys to Chiyoko's memory, pulling the fat man, the photographer and the audience from the real time and space into Chiyoko's memory.
Secondly, because of the relationship between Fat Brother and Chiyoko, he can interact in Chiyoko's fictional world or in other worlds, which is shown in the hat he left behind when Chiyoko of Girls' Generation chased after him to the station and tried to see the painter in the memory world. And this hat even appeared in the real world, which is obviously against logic, so the photographer as a bystander did not know their past and expressed surprise.
At the same time, in Chiyoko's memory, because of the confusion of memory, she confuses her real memory with the experience of the role she played, so the memory world is intertwined with the movie world, which first appeared in Girls' Generation. In the scene where Chiyoko watched the train leave the artist at the station, the fat brother wiped his tears and said, "This scene made me cry 53 times", and Ida's sentence "Hey, when did it become a movie scene? ?", making the original farewell scene become a fusion of the memory world and the movie world without any sense of violation, making the story magical.
In addition, during the interview process, Chiyoko's narration of the main story layers will be paused from time to time due to certain factors, so the space where the memory and the film are mixed briefly switches to the plot development of the real world.
Through the continuous transformation of these three world spaces, Jin Min constantly embedded and juxtaposed other stories, making the film stories intertwined with stories, and finally formed the narrative structure of "Millennium Actress" with linear interlacing and loop nesting.
2. Narrative Threads - Earthquakes, Keys, and the Ghostly Granny
Earthquake: Chiyoko was born in an earthquake and fell in an earthquake. The plot turns in the earthquake, and the audience is free from memory, fiction and reality in the earthquake. This one by one opposition promotes the development of the plot and enriches the characters.
Key: As the most direct clue, the appearance of the key unfolds the main story of the film, and takes us to feel Chiyoko's infinite courage and motivation to pursue love, to the dashed hope.
Ghost old woman: Jin Min said in an interview that the old woman represents time. I think the curse of this ghost is like Chiyoko's pursuit of the ideal time span, and the various obstacles and difficulties in real life to her. Although it makes her physically and mentally tired, she Never been knocked down.
3. Some feelings
At the beginning of the film, Chiyoko's pursuit is revealed. The fat brother said "you will not come back", which also means that she has devoted herself to this relationship too rightly, without results, and ignoring real life. It is the process of pursuing him", which seems to both reply to the beginning and sublime the theme, just as each of us may have a lifelong desire, perhaps a person, an achievement, or a thing.
But whether we succeed or not, it's really who we are, it's never the goal, it's all the experiences we've had along the way
I hope you and I will not forget the original intention and forge ahead
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