Cause and effect Ukiyo-e

Cindy 2022-06-24 20:47:39

Many people only care about themselves and what is happening around them, but as long as we look at the world from a macro perspective, there may be causal relationships that we cannot see between us and many people we don’t know.

This is a movie that shrinks the map of sentient beings in the world and brings people closer to each other. The film is made up of several small chapters, which involve different identities, regions, languages ​​and encounters. The psychological problems faced by the characters in each short story are different, but they are connected by one common point.

The reason why I like this movie is because it conveys a very mysterious message of cause and effect, and this kind of theme has always won my heart.

In fact, this play brings out a lot of information. You can think that everyone will face the intersection of life, and choosing which way will give you a completely different destiny; you can also think that this play is depicting different emotions in the world relation. However, the part I like more is the causal relationship between each story in the play.

As long as you look at it carefully, it is not difficult to find that several stories show the pattern of "if it wasn't... it wouldn't...". It seems that the husband who was on a business trip would not leave a message to his wife to express his thoughts if he hadn’t been able to hire a prostitute; if the wife hadn’t received a message from her husband, she would not have broken up with her little boyfriend. Because the little boyfriend was unfaithful, his original girlfriend also left him and went back to his hometown; if his girlfriend didn't want to break up and go back to his hometown, he wouldn't run into the released prisoner; He is a released prisoner) for one night, and he will not leave a note to the father whose daughter has disappeared, and the willful remarks in the note will not fall into the ears of the woman with the red hat who cares about her, so Affecting her decision to divorce...

Such various causal pulls fill every little story; from an independent point of view, it is a single influence, but taking a step back is a complex intricate chain of fates connected to another; what's more, this The end of a relationship on the side is actually the beginning of another relationship on the other side.

This film seems to be loose, and each small story may not have enough space to manage each emotional waste. However, if you look at the film macroscopically, you will find that the director's ambition is not to construct a few dramatic love relationships, but through the connection between each chapter, so that the audience can understand that the speaker is understatement or rash comments, and the listeners will Maybe you care about it, or you may feel like you're taking a stab at it. As a result, at the intersection of each choice, unknowingly, the unintentional remarks or unintentional behavior of others will affect the whole life.

The light connection between several stories, seemingly weak and powerless, actually conveys a philosophical message, and also gives the audience a chance to imagine and think. If the choreographer is a little heavy on each other's relationship, it becomes too dramatic and distorted.

Qi Jashi

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  • Jess 2022-06-24 19:06:02

    Is this to pull in all the countries of the world? The result is a large list of actors who speak various languages ​​from all over the world, the arrangement of the multi-line narrative is clumsy and weak, there is no natural connection, the development of each story is extremely illogical, except for the soundtrack, the rest is quite a failure.

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