Undoubtedly, it was Hirokazu Kore-eda who was repeating himself again, of course it was a bad repetition, just a different topic and an identity.
If the previous work "Haijie Diary" is a feminine movie, then this "Deeper than the Sea" is a masculine movie. After a few days of watching the movie, I had to let my sensibility follow the path of reason. Indeed, "Deeper Than the Sea" was blocked from the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and it is no surprise that if I were a judge, I would do the same, and I am already aesthetically fatigued.
Objectively speaking, it was Hirokazu Koreeda who initially shot his best three films, "The Light of Magic", "The Next Stop, Heaven" and "No One Knows", and basically stepped back, or entered a normal state of creation, The first three films can be described as shocking, especially "The Light of Illusion", a simple and leisurely work that is difficult to match, and I am afraid that he will be difficult to surpass in his own life. In fact, this is quite normal. I often say that a person will always have only one masterpiece in his life, and it is impossible for each of them to be well-received.
The films after "Distance" are that he did not adhere to the concise style of his first three films, and became more and more procrastinated and naughty. The key is that he attaches too much importance to the narrative. Maybe this is true, but the fault is that he put the cart before the horse and discarded it. his style. The director who shoots a lot will always fall into this nerve-wracking trap, but I don’t think that, I just keep my head down, and I have to make one film a year, otherwise, it doesn’t seem like making a movie. Kurosawa also has this mental state. This is the abuse of the author's film. Stop for a while, think quietly, but it is beneficial to your creative mentality, and you will not fall into the quagmire of your own.
"Deeper than the Sea" can be regarded as the aftermath of "Haijie Diary". The role of Shinoda Ryota played by Hiro Abe, I want to say, this is a personal insult to the creator. In his early years, he wrote the novel "No Man's Dining Table" and won the Shimao Toshio Award. As his sister sarcastically said, if it was Akutagawa Ryunosuke Award (this is like the difference between a national award and a local award), I will remember it. It can be said that the embarrassed Xiaotian, 50 years old, worked in a detective agency, followed the young and young girls to monitor and take pictures, and followed other people's livelihood in the way of stealing chickens and dogs. Just enough to make ends meet.
The ex-wife Hiroko played by Yoko Maki always urges him to say that you have not paid 100,000 alimony for three months. What could he do? He ran to the house and rummaged through the cabinets. Knowing that this younger brother had a sister who had such a hand, he specially left a sarcastic note in his stockings. The sister didn't want to see him, and the old mother Shuzi was extremely disappointed with him. As soon as the old father died, Shinoda came back and asked his mother for some antique scrolls. The old lady said lightly, I threw all the things your father left behind, and I was useless anyway. This disappointed him. From the mother's point of view, the son, like his father, had the same bad habit of gambling.
But Shuzi is a loving mother after all, and her love for him is always. Typhoon No. 24 is coming. But a bigger typhoon is a storm in Shinoda's heart, and he can't deal with what he calls "a late bloomer". As his mother said, your "big one" is too late. Using a typhoon to talk about things to show the unbearable storm in Shinoda's heart is really cold enough. The creation is unsustainable, the publishing house will not publish his novels, let him rewrite the comics, saying that this is a quick money, you don't need to sign his name, you can earn money, just be a gunman. But his mind is entirely on his ex-wife Hiroko and 10-year-old son Shingo.
His son plays baseball, Xiangzi goes on a date with his new love, and his "accompaniment" is indispensable, of course, quietly, he is not a private detective, this is also considered a close-up platform. I see my son once a month. When I see him, my ex-wife will always ask for alimony. The same is true for my son. I want to buy this and that. My son's ideal is to become a civil servant in the future, just like Shinoda wanted to be a local civil servant. I feel that this is a movie made for Chinese people, or it is very Chinese. The son's ideal is to grow up to be a person who is not like his father. Because his father is incapable, his mother divorced him.
Shinoda has no ability to make money, and is still struggling to write novels all day long, and the novels cannot be written to the point of making money, and there is only one Watanabe Junichi. After the divorce, he was in despair and could only hope that gambling (racing betting) would make a comeback, but it was not as good as the sky. It was also discovered by the boss and confiscated. It was not miserable. Masa Nakagawa, whose boss is a novelist and actor, also appears (see my "Shell Collector"), which is also a mockery, but he is a best-selling author.
So I say that the identity setting of the character Shinoda is a failure, and his failure is the failure of the film itself. On the contrary, his mother became the guide of his life, the one who opened the fool. This is even more incredible. Real life may exist, but artistic life, this way of writing is too naive. After all, no matter how bad this Shinoda is, he is also a novelist. The elderly have their own insights into life. It is good to chat after a meal, and it is used as a reminder, but if it is regarded as the whole theme of the film itself, it will be extremely mentally retarded. Even if Shinoda is not a novelist, he is also a highly educated person. He has been struggling in society for so many years, and the life experience he should have is enough for him to cope with his dilemma.
But the film artificially sets him as a "four dissimilar" character who is not as good as others, not as good as he wants, and in extreme embarrassment. It's hard to say what kind of person he is, is he a gangster, no, is he a total gambler, let alone a derelict father, but the son likes him very much, just because The special relationship between parents, on the surface, does not want to be with him. It might have been a little more interesting if he simply failed to write it, but now it feels like it's boring, and a little pitiful and hopeless, it's really dizzying.
In this way, the identity of a protagonist cannot be defined, and the film basically loses its due artistic taste, not to mention its charm. The ambiguity of identity makes the film lack Zhang Chi and lose its due rhythm and aftertaste. The director himself highly praised the part of the mother and son's late-night heart-to-heart talk. The announcer recommended Teresa Teng's Japanese song on the radio. She only liked "The Premonition of Parting". At my age, I have never loved someone deeper than the sea. No, no, ordinary people will not have it, because if they don't, they can live. Life is just so ordinary.
Mother said, I said a famous saying, you have to write it down. Of course he would write it down and stick it on the wall as usual. Last time the female client said, "Which step in my life did I go wrong?". It's time to catch up with inspirational guru Carnegie's life motto. If these appear in real life, there is no problem at all, the problem is that this is a movie with only over a hundred minutes and must follow the creative mirror of the movie itself. Thinking about his previous "Light of Magic" (see my film review of the same name), the entire film has very little dialogue, well-placed long shots, and the control over the characters' emotions and psychology is really impeccable, how come it is Hirokazu Koreeda now It is.
If you are like Yasujiro Ozu repeating the mirror words after his "Late Spring" after the war, it is also Gaoge, which makes people speechless, because his simple and quiet expression is consistent and his style has not changed. Any film has no lingering taste when it is nagging, unless you can make it like Rohmer, but one Rohmer is enough, and now Woody Allen is superfluous.
Influenced by the old man Ren Iida, the old lady likes classical music. I have heard No. 134 in Beethoven's works. In comparison, the son of a novelist is like a bereaved dog. This kind of situation is not only sad, but also It makes people feel hopeless. Such people become the laughing stock of society. This is not the fault of society. It is you, Hirokazu Kore-eda, who is responsible for the creator. to express one's own expressiveness.
Yes, the reality is too harsh for the creators themselves and is not welcome, but the progress of society is inseparable from these people who are struggling but still stick to their creative ideals. Therefore, the creation of the film itself lacks admiration, and the character setting has major flaws, so it is difficult to be outstanding.
On the night of the typhoon, due to the old lady's efforts, ex-wife Xiangzi and son Zhenwu reluctantly spent the night. When the wind and rain were mixed, Laozi took his son out to live in a culvert in the park. This is even more nonsense. There is no understanding in the house. The same can't be done, but the lottery ticket I bought for my son has been lost. Just because I was poor, my son followed his mother to see Qian opened his eyes, opened his mouth is money, closed his mouth is also money, and finally "bye" is still money.
In short, this Shinoda is regarded as a useless ghost because he has no money and is involved in gambling. It is not so clever to abuse a character in this way, and it seems a bit pediatric. If he is very down, not because of gambling, not because of creation, or just an ordinary person, wouldn't it be more realistic to highlight his psychological and emotional gap. So, I always say don't complete your own creation by ruining a character, which is very inefficient, boring, and unable to innovate.
Chen Yingxiong's "The Taste of Summer", how a writer gets along with his family and how he made it, go and see. Even in Hiro-eda and his own "Light of Magic", how did Miya face her husband's sudden departure, without the slightest wailing, or even the scene of mourning, just a very dazed look of her lying quietly on the tatami, but let the viewers watch it. Heartbroken, this is Gog's film. Don't preach like me, it's enough for us to watch "News Network" once a day, and the movie still needs to be artistic.
Since the film specifically mentions Miss Teresa Teng, I will not regard you as Hirokazu Kore-eda as an outsider. If I say you have a clue, please go back to the way of "The Light of Magic", relying on the narrative, relying on the ingenious plot and nagging, this road will not work. , is a dead end, the same for any director. As sung in the song at the end of the film, "What kind of future did I look forward to, looking up at the clouds of planes in the sky, where should I go...", yes, it's Hirokazu Koreeda, you don't have to go anywhere, just take a good rest, don't Too diligent, otherwise it will be the next Kurosawa Kiyoshi.
Maki Yoko seems to be still immersed in "Goodbye Valley", she did a great job in that movie, and she played the female ghost in "Honeymourne" recently. The mixed-race Abe Kan, with a height of 1.89, is really aggrieved by this former supermodel to play such a lost soul. The bright color is the old lady tree Xilin, and her performance is superb, which is comparable to "The Taste of Clear Sand", which is what makes the film interesting.
2016, 12, 9
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