article/Fan Xiao Eel
I always have an inescapable feeling for the beauty of the moment when I look back.
This kind of beauty is not the gorgeousness of "looking back and smiling, but also the melancholy at that moment. I think that the aesthetic paranoia on this point is still Shunji Iwai, or his "Love Letter" in 1995.
It's the crowded street, the snowy winter, and the girl Fujii tree on the bicycle, because Hiroko's unsure call softly, the piano stopped abruptly with the bicycle, but the lens of looking back stayed for a long time. In my mind.
As a domestic release version, the cover of "Love Letter" has two versions: one is the poster with Miho Zhongshan playing the role of Hiroko who is looking up in the snow, white snow, white sky, and white snow falling on the dress. Miho Nakayama in a black coat and short black hair reflect the side face of Miho Nakayama with his head up; the other version is the moment when the female Fujiiki played by Miho Nakayama stopped cycling abruptly in the crowd and looked back, the blurred crowd , The background faded, only Miho Zhongshan’s vague but inquisitive eyes were clear, and the thin figure seemed so quiet.
Many people prefer the black-and-white posters, but I never forget the momentary beauty of Miho Nakayama as the female Fujiiki.
Perhaps people are stubborn, always persistently unwilling to forget the first shots and voices that touched oneself in the youth like water blooms.
Hiroko writes the first letter to Fujii, how are you, I'm fine. Later, in the snowy mountain where Otoi Tree had an accident, in the vast world, Hiroko finally shouted out his thoughts and freedom: How are you, I am fine.
There are still only these six words, but the sound is nailed to the screen like that shot. ——I love to the depths, what words can be more full than these six words?
Here, who else can hold back his face?
Love of love, about first love.
The boy once drew a sketch of a girl on the back of the library card. He clipped the library card in the book and asked the girl to help him return it to the library. The girl didn't pay attention. At the moment when she put the book hidden in the boy's heart on the shelf on her tiptoe, the sunlight poured in from the window, covering the girl in a piece of gold.
Young love affair, like a person, just keep signing his name on books that he has never read, because that is also her name.
Green but not astringent, sweet but not greasy, as pure as the flying snow in the lens, people can't help but remember whether there is such a person in their youth and frivolousness, making oneself look forward to it but still has the courage to speak Express until fate makes each other finally missed.
I think the male Fujii tree played by Takashi Kashiwabara has always been in love-at least missed the female Fujii tree, so Hiroko later learned that the female Fujii tree looks similar to herself, and finally cried to the male Fujii tree’s mother, so she let her People are also sad.
I kept remembering that episode, Miho Nakayama cried and said, I can't forgive him.
In fact, she had forgiven him a long time ago.
Otaru is just a place where she lived temporarily when her lover died in junior high school, but she tried every means to walk into that place, or walk into that period of time.
If you love someone, you want to know all about him.
Women are especially persistent on this point. Even if you accidentally know that you are just a substitute in a sense.
So from this point of view, when Miho Nakayama plays Hiroko, he should really be exquisite and elegant, and when he plays the female Fujii, he is indeed so hearty and even reckless. Because of this, Fujii Shu never found those cards when she was in middle school.
Youth love is a memorial ceremony.
Male Fujii reads female Fujii tree, Hiroko reads male Fujii tree. The female Fujii tree needs memories, but for Hiroko, what she needs is forgetting. Because she can't forget, she will choose to deliver a love letter to heaven; because she cares, she will be jealous of her boyfriend as the shadow of another person; because it is unforgettable, she can never accept the love of another friend.
But all of this, even if Fujii tree recalls the deep feelings hidden in that good time, even if Hiroko forgets a shadow in the short time, there is a sad fact that exists at the beginning of the movie, and the hero has been killed and left.
Iwai Shunji is undoubtedly beautiful. Even if he can tear through the madness of youth with "Lily Week", his "Love Letter" has always been solidified in the white world with a pure attitude.
In addition to a Japanese song by Matsuda Seiko, the background music is always a piece of piano music, repairing the sentimental imagery of snow and cherry blossoms. Until the curtain call, the eyes and ears will slightly hurt. Then I recalled that there was only the library in the afternoon. The boy was reading by the window, and the girl was busy sorting out the books. It was bright and good weather outside. The wind fluttered the white curtains and flew in front of the boy's young face. Years later, the boy is no longer alive, the sun is still shining in the library, and the white curtains are still flying in the wind.
This is like water years. Even if the same wind blows on the face many years later, we can still think of the afternoon and that person many years ago.
At the end of the film, a group of female Fujii tree school girls told her the secrets in "Reminiscence of the Water Years". The sideways sketch of Fujii tree is hidden in the deepest corner, as if hiding in the deepest part of Fujii tree's heart. Fujii didn't speak, wiped his eyes with his hands, and stubbornly did not shed tears.
At this time, the blue sky was washed, and the fallen leaves were colorful.
September 2004 Shanghai
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