"Diary of a Haijie Girl": The Five Tastes of Life

Matilde 2022-04-19 09:02:43

Family ethics films have always been a major theme in Japanese films. The director of "The Diary of a Sea Street Girl" (Sea Street Diary) is Hirokazu Koreeda who has always been concerned about "home" and identity. Indifferent purity and warmth. It is very rare in this generation to have a movie that warms people's hearts and is less irritable and crying. This film is all about family affection, how an ordinary family gets along, resolves doubts, and advances and retreats together, how people in a small town are connected, and how a person abandons the vision of the outside world to come to a new place. All are daily and trivial things, but why it can touch people's hearts, this is probably the place where we live, we lack this concern for people and things, there are too many suspicions, and we forget the relationship between people. Some communication, there are too many shackles bound us. After all, the movie is not a real existence, but it brings out the brilliance of human nature, the tolerance and acceptance that a family should have, and the willingness to start over and abandon the unpleasant events of the past. Just imagine that the same story is put into the Chinese film industry, and the first thing you will do is to call the younger sister who just arrived in your realm a "cheap girl". This is a question of values. It also pointed out why Yasujiro Ozu's famous family movie "Tokyo Story" has its universal value even after its sixty years of existence. The filmmakers who came to this generation are still devoted and sincere to warm people's hearts.

The structure of the film is loose, it is not compact at all, unlike the usual family movie to show who is right and wrong, but through the anecdote of the four sisters, they gently reveal their thoughts about home. Her father left home when her sisters were young, and her mother was struck by it, believing that her home in Kamakura was a prison in which she was imprisoned. Facing the separation of her parents, the eldest sister was fortunate to take on the responsibility of taking care of the head family, and only fortunately remembered her father clearly. The sisters also seemed to be relatively calm in the face of their father's death. Maybe they didn't have any extra memories. They were just polite to their father. Especially since his father had three marriages, he couldn't care less about it. more important. For the Xiangtian family, the three sisters were originally one body. When they found out that their father had other daughters alive, they were not surprised, but slowly regained the memory and taste of their father in her. of.

The blood relationship is so important, and the more important thing is that in this sister, they have insight into her thoughts and maturity, so the responsibility is extremely important. They find that Suzu will not be happy by staying with their stepmother, so they invite her to live in Kamakura. Responsibility is a major proposition of the film, it supports the fate of the entire family and the remorse for the relatives. At the same time, another proposition of the film is "cause and effect", which is repetition. Originally, the eldest sister was fortunate to hate her parents for leaving home, but in the end, she became someone else's third party, and even accepted the daughter born by the third party. Or every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and there is no way to scold the things of the previous generation, only to live in the present. The four sisters have different personalities, and have different views on relationships and marriage. They solve problems for each other. It is a happy thing for a family to cry and make trouble. In this story, the women's sense of touch and getting along are a selling point. In addition, some are quite sensational, and a few words must make people cry.

In Xing's inner world, she hates her father. In Suzu's world, she hated her mother for being someone else's third party, and questioned whether she should exist. Through getting along with several sisters, she gradually let go, and it is enough to be a family no matter what. Family love naturally has a catalytic role in the movie, and love is only a lost match. Everyone seems to lose something after all. The eldest sister swallowed her anger for a long time, silently working for a man, but she could not get a name. The third sister Qianjia is relatively happy. Even though her boyfriend doesn't get the approval of her family, she gets true love. Simei's love is not really love, it's just a drink from a child player's house, but she has gained friendship. There is a natural reason for the film to be filmed in Kamakura. The coastal waters and a small town can bring out the necessity of neighborhood relations, implement the relationship between home and community, express the love of a place, and the people's support and help.

In this film, family love is paramount, but the caring of the community is also touching enough. The people of a community welcome the new residents first, not only did they not talk casually about the affairs of other people's homes, but also secretly protected her in their actions and words. The proprietress of the small restaurant on the corner chatted with the four sisters about their childhood memories and knew what they liked to eat. The proprietor of the coffee shop watched them grow up and at the same time protected the proprietress. It is true that this movie is really ordinary and trivial in daily life, but it shows human feelings and loyalty.

The film begins with the death of his father and ends with the death of someone else. Gu Ming's meaning of this arrangement is to echo each other, and it is also the redemption of daughter Xing. When his father died, there was only Ling by his side, and the departure of the proprietress was also a clever arrangement. Fortunately, when his relatives passed away, he could not be by his side, so he had to accompany the old neighbor on her last journey and try her best to accompany her. This movie has no big truth in life, some just bring out the life of each member of a family, to achieve harmony while being different, and accept the arrangement of fate no matter how hard life is.

Even though the film has no great value, its beauty can be seen from the objective conditions alone. First of all, the appearance of the four heroines has their own characteristics, the eldest sister is calm, the second sister is a little wild, the third sister is more cute, and the fourth sister is a typical girl, of course it is pleasing to see beautiful women. The second is the beautiful scenery. The restaurants on the corner, the train station, the seaside, the hometown, under the cherry trees, and the simplicity of a town are all photographed. The third is food, plum wine, rice fish, curry rice, this is not to be a foodie, but to introduce local specialties and use the food to remember the taste of the elders, a plum tree of fifty years, witnessing A family heritage. Although the whole movie is rather sensational, on the whole, beauty is its advantage. It is not bad to have no distractions, and to see that its motives and handling are pure.

What are the five flavors of life, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, salty. It's not difficult to find the five flavors in "Haijie Diary", Tian is seeing a few sisters getting along, caring everywhere, and solving troubles. The acid is the acid of the plum, and it is also the bitterness in the face of responsibility. Bitterness is the bitterness of beer, which is used to anesthetize yourself when you are unhappy, and it is also the bitterness of several sisters who lost their parents. Spicy is verbal, and sometimes hurts others unconsciously, with sadness and challenges. As for salty, it is more painful than falling and remembering the taste of tears. In this movie, salty can also be extended to the taste of sea water and sea breeze. The five flavors are mixed, and the scenery changes as you like. The scenery is still the same, things are different, but life is changing, only the old-fashioned people should cherish it.

Text/Dorothy

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