The 2011 movie "Miracle" is a "proposition" composition to celebrate the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen line from Hakata to central Kagoshima. It should be regarded as one of the less popular movies of Hirokazu Kee. Soon after the movie was released, the novels written by Hirokazu Edema and Hiro Nakamura followed suit.
The text is as warm as the movie.
In this work, Hirokazu Kee seems to have returned to the documentary era, using close-up shots of characters and voiceovers to string together the seven children's summer adventures.
A pair of brothers are separated because of their parents' divorce. The older brother Hangichi (Maeda Hangki) and mother (Otsuka Nene) returned to Kagoshima, and the younger brother Ryunosuke (Maeda Moshiro) and father (Odagiri Joe) went to Fukuoka. My brother hopes that the family can be reunited again, so he is tired of everything in Kagoshima.
Hangyi can't get used to the volcanic ash falling on his shoulders and windowsills every day, and can't get used to having to walk a big uphill every day to get to school. He painted a gushing volcano, because then there would be no volcanic ash.
"Although the painting is what you see in front of you, it is actually the same as depicting your own heart."
One day, he heard such an urban legend:
A miracle will happen when the Feiyan sailing south from Fukuoka and the Sakura sailing north from Kagoshima cross for the first time on the day of opening. At that time, a wish for the Shinkansen will come true.
Like all children, he believed it. Hangyi hopes to take this opportunity to reconcile his parents. He is going to make a wish to the train: let the train erupt. In this way, my mother had to leave Kagoshima.
"He knows how lonely a world where all his favorite things disappear. He understands all of this. However, he wants to live with his family."
The intersection of the two trains is in Kumamoto. Hangyi is about to call two friends, Xiaoyou (Lin Lingya) and Xiaozhen (played by Yongji Xingzhisuke).
Xiaozhen’s father is addicted to Xiaogangzhu. He wants his father who volunteers to be a writer to stop playing with Xiaogangzhu and take care of him and his sister.
Xiaoyou likes Teacher Xiaoxing (Nagazawa Masami) in the school library, and even sees other students helping Teacher Xiaoxing push the bicycle, and will steal the bell of the teacher's bicycle.
He returned the car bell to Teacher Xiaoxing. He was going to make a wish to the train, hoping to let Teacher Xiaoxing marry him upright.
"He wants to use a miracle to make the tiny self go away forever. He wants to use his strength to stand there and do his best for that moment."
Hangyi excitedly told his brother Ryunosuke. Ryunosuke's reaction was not enthusiastic. Long Zhisuke is like a father who pursues his music dream. He hopes to start a new life, and he hopes that he will not quarrel hysterically because of his parents, and he can't even eat small octopus balls.
Now he can buy a whole plate of small octopus balls every day after school.
Ryunosuke hopes to have a quiet meal rather than making his parents reconcile. Is this wrong?
However, at the instigation of his friend, Ryunosuke changed his attitude and agreed to meet his brother in Kumamoto, where he met on two trains, to witness the miracle.
"Something that can't be solved anyway, since it can't be solved, you can only give up, endure, pretend to be numb, become accustomed, pretend to be invisible, and then just wait for yourself to become an adult."
They don't want to become such adults.
Emi (Kara Uchimoto) wants to be an actress, Rento (Ronto Isobe) wants to run faster, Kanna (played by Hashimoto Kanna, right is that Hashimoto Kanna who plays Kagura~) think Draw better. The four traveled together.
The seven children showed their talents, raised enough travel expenses, deceived the school teacher, and met in Kumamoto.
But they don't even know where to see the intersection of trains. Headlessly walking to the point of exhaustion, Linden, who was left behind, was touched by the police uncle.
At this time, Huimei played her acting skills, falsely claiming that she was going to visit her relatives at her grandfather's house, and she pointed to a strange house.
The grandmother who came out from inside understood the look in Huimei’s pleading eyes. Not only did she let the children spend the night at her own house, she also carefully helped the children sew a wishing flag, and sent the seven children to a place where they could see the train crossing the next day. On the bridge.
This is already a miracle. Isn't it?
When the trains crossed, the seven people shouted out their wishes. Ryunosuke, who had no wish at first, found that deep down, he had a wish: he hoped that his father would realize his wish and that his band would produce good works.
But the voyage that contributed to all of this was silent on the contrary. At the moment when the trains met, he thought of all the fine things in life--
The popsicles after swimming in summer, the most delicious residue of potato chips, parent-child meal, sky, young saplings, grandma's hula dance pose, the head teacher's big hands, even the volcanic ash falling on the shoulders are so precious, and Large tracts of cosmos and the seeds they collected as they passed by. If the volcano erupts, won't the seeds have no chance to grow into beautiful flowers?
"As if temporarily covering all the sorrows and disasters in the world. They will bloom here."
Therefore, he chose silence.
However, after that, Hangyi had a final word that made people funny and emotional.
It is also a movie directed by Hirokazu Kee with children as the protagonist. This movie is much warmer than the gloomy "Nobody Knows". The innocence and indomitableness of childhood made people cry while smiling at the same time. The montage that went by when I made my wish on the last voyage is really beautiful.
Japan is so good at cultivating child servants, and every child acts so vividly. Especially when Maeda Hangji, who played his elder brother, had little mature eyes when worrying about his parents, it made people feel distressed.
It is the work of Hirokazu Ke, the rhythm is slow, and the details are piercing. For example, after the two brothers met again, the elder brother found that his younger brother was not wearing the yellow T-shirt that they both had.
Later that evening when the two brothers took a bath together, they took off their clothes and the vests inside them were exactly the same. Some things have changed, but the more core things will never change.
For another example, children don't want to do anything, even if they buy a box of small octopus balls, they all use it to run. By the railroad track, when the train passes by, the footsteps won't stop, and you have to keep walking on the spot.
Children are really like this, as if endless energy has to be released through every opportunity.
Naturally, the train did not fulfill the children's wishes. That's not important anymore. Because this journey of miracles allowed the seven children to understand what they really want, and they also discovered the little fortunes in their lives that are better than miracles hidden under the cover of layers of unsatisfactory.
If you have time for leisure, you can turn it out and watch it. Maybe it will give you a whole new sense of life.
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