Multiple spaces, multiple identities

Jasen 2022-08-20 22:36:55

Class Notes:

The director chose to shoot in a closed car space, but we felt multiple worlds (the small world in the car, the inner world of the characters, the world outside the car window or the noisy or quiet world). At the same time, because the state of the characters has changed differently, so The content is not monotonous.

interior space

Through the medium of the car window, the director created a flowing off-painting space that functions like a mirror to reflect the interior. In the end, there is only sound and no picture when the car is thrown and the stone is thrown. It is left to our imagination. Substituting the characters present has an immersive effect.

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Ironic class relationship: The heroine chooses to befriend in order to earn tuition to study the subject of sociology, but the old man happens to be a professor and is still in the same university. He represents exactly the upper class and the vested interests, who are exploiting the lower class (the heroine and her boyfriend). The expectation of the heroine is only because she is like his dead wife, daughter, the person in the picture on the wall. He also used a fake "grandfather" role to get along with her boyfriend, and finally confused each other with the fake and the real, and added them layer by layer like a mask.

Status 1: Student, granddaughter, girlfriend, assisted dating girl.

Identity 2: Customer, grandfather, professor.

Identity 3: Boyfriend, auto mechanic.

Identity 4: The old lady at the door and the professor belong to the "enemy" relationship, a literary metaphor.

The director uses a fictional story to create a real feeling, and finally returns to a narrative poetry.

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Extended Reading
  • Justina 2022-04-24 07:01:27

    Mature film language with impeccable details. But can the integrity of the story itself really be replaced by so-called openness? In addition, the male and female protagonists in the film are all sociology students! That girl has at least entered her second year of sophomore year, and in the exam, she answered the theory of evolution as Durkheim, and her studies are worrying; not only that, but this girl started her current part-time job as soon as she went to university in Tokyo. Forget about work early, what sociology to study!

  • Ignatius 2022-04-20 09:02:58

    enfin...on vit dans l'imagination de l'amour... The key word of the love river lies in the word "such as", "if", an illusion, which covers life with a stable and orderly veil, Professor The "if" of the deceased wife and the "if" of the auto mechanic are the schoolgirls who go to school safely, and if accidentally a gust of wind blows off the veil covering the truth, it is howling, furious, broken, falling to the ground ...

Like Someone in Love quotes

  • Noriaki: [subtitled version] What do they teach them in there? As if dusty, old, foreign books will open their eyes.

  • Noriaki: [subtitled version] If we're married, she has to answer me.

    Takashi: Ideally, yes. That's why I'm saying you lack experience.