In Wonderland again, amnesia, understanding, memorandum

Kenny 2022-02-27 08:02:17

After a long period of waiting, Shunji Iwai made a comeback with a poetic dream. The picture is equally delicate and soft, and the music is equally uninhibited. This is Shunji Iwai, this is another screen reproduction of Alice in Wonderland, and this is "Flower and Alice".

In the image, the friendship between women tends to be fragile and can't stand ups and downs, especially after emotional intervention. "Brothers are like siblings, lovers are like clothes" such a manly theory is just a gust of wind among women, maybe it's the dust that has been blown away, or maybe it has never been patronized.

In love, there is never equality between men and women. For men, love is just a spiritual destination, tending to a harbour for mooring when tired. In a sense, the nature of every man's bones is a "footless bird", but because of the constraints of various internal and external factors, when exposed, it is more or less manifested in various poses and different shapes.

Women are the exact opposite. In the eyes of a woman, love is faith, hope, and sometimes all. Women like to brighten themselves up by dressing up and shopping, all of which subconsciously are nothing more than to attract the opposite sex. Even a strong woman with a cold face, a tomboy, and a strong woman can't hide the essence of being strong on the outside and doing things in the middle. In the face of love, all women are equally weak and powerless.

The slogan of equality between men and women has been shouted hoarsely for a long time, but in fact this argument is just contrary to the origin of human beings. Can men and women be equal? If it is really possible, why does the creator have to create a me after you have created a you?

The fragility of women in this aspect is reflected in the play as a break after the appearance of a man named Miyamoto Masashi. The original agreement and the seemingly unbreakable friendship gradually broke down after encountering the emotional vortex, until the final fake drama turned against the truth. "What does love mean to women?", Iwai vividly restores this question with the light and shadow on the film, even if they are only fifteen years old, and the nature of women drives them to complete the most primitive and real choices.

this is Love. It is no wonder that Li Zongsheng's ordinary "Good Man" conquered countless hearts. These days, there is no difference between a purely good man and a dinosaur in women's minds. Women's desire for a good man is as strong as a man's fear of dinosaur women.

At the beginning of the film, the pure friendship between Hua and Alice was recorded. However, after the man appeared, this friendship began to slowly deteriorate until it became black and stinky. A small game on the beach, a trivial matter, instantly became the fuse, triggering the long-standing resentment in their hearts. It seems trivial, but the fact is doomed to its inevitability.

Before the haze came, Iwai spent a lot of time documenting that honest and sincere friendship. In the soft and fluttering piano accompaniment, a group of warm and scorching light is always projected in front of the two of them. The graceful light dance fluttered with the breath of youthful rhythm, dazzling in the light of the spotlight, and retained the eternal moment in the crisp "click" sound. This moment is beautiful, just like we always have the urge to turn a moment into eternity, all we can do is to seal this moment in memory, that's all.

It is worth mentioning that the music of the whole film is also performed by Iwai for the first time, which is enough to show that he attaches great importance to music as always, and this time he has made a major breakthrough attempt.

The appearance of a man in the friendship between the two is tantamount to a nightmare, like a sharp weapon mercilessly separating a gap. In fact, this gap has always existed, but there is no incentive to widen it. An accidental accident triggered an incredible forced amnesia. Is memory so cheap that a slight collision will disappear in an instant?

The originator of the game didn't realize it, and he fell into the opponent's layout early on at the mercy of others. Who controls the game is no longer important, the point is that she already has the qualifications to participate in the game. Alice is also unwilling to be lonely, and she threw herself into the game without turning back. What is memory? Since you don't have it, I'll compose it. Memories occur in the future that has not yet begun, and the wonderful memories are equated with the future. The originally bland time and space are seriously distorted at this moment, and the tension of the illusion gives people unlimited imagination.

"Please lend me the hammer."

"Do what?"

"I want to use it to drive a nail."

"No, that would break the hammer."

This is one of the lines. Literally it seems difficult to understand, even ridiculous, but it expounds a very simple truth - there is no absolute between strength and weakness, and the backlash of the reaction is often even more amazing. No hammer will be smashed by a nail, but at the same time, we cannot deny the fact that the hammer is subjected to the reaction force of the nail. The film uses this to explain the relationship between deception and being deceived.

In the film, the middle-aged man who once taught Alice Chinese, combined with Alice and her mother's dependence on each other, speculated that his identity was a divorced father. He said this sentence, "Japanese evolved from Chinese". In connection with his father-daughter relationship with Alice, and the hammer-and-nail theory, I can feel the hesitation behind Iwai, and I have a deep respect for him for that.

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Extended Reading
  • Pete 2022-03-24 09:03:38

    It's actually a little shaky looking back...

  • Desiree 2022-03-22 09:02:52

    Flowers and Alice is the earliest dish I bought, probably in middle school or even elementary school. I bought it from a small store near my home, and I don't know any Iwai Shunji Aoi Yu, so I think the poster looks pretty good. Later, I watched it secretly for 20 minutes by myself at home, and my mother came home suddenly. I was so frightened that I quickly turned off the TV, and then turned on the DVD player and found that I couldn’t find it. As a result, it was dragged to the present, and it was not finished until the end of the girlhood, which is also miraculous.

Hana to Arisu quotes

  • Setsuko "Alice" Arisugawa: I saw 'Hannibal' on satellite last night.

    Hana: So did I.

    Setsuko "Alice" Arisugawa: I was scared.

    Hana: Isn't he creepy?

    Setsuko "Alice" Arisugawa: Yeah. Don't you think real people are scarier... than zombies and ghosts?