The one you didn't know when you were alive

Derek 2022-06-25 19:07:40

Writing a review for the first time, for Matthew and the film that was buried. This ghostly movie is suitable for people with similar emotions and experiences. People who once fell in love and then quarreled indifferently. After experiencing life and death, they found out that they never knew each other and could only hold regrets and guilt forever.

Like many couples, Arthur and Joan had true love and good times, but the conflicts of work, raising a family, drinking, and cheating made them arguing, saying hurtful things, hating each other, and hating themselves. Only when the person is dead can he say "Love her more than anything in the world".

Arthur is a professor and believes in science and atheism. But Aokihara, like a gravitational field, kept showing miracles, allowing him to talk to his wife. In the end, Arthur believed in the existence of souls, and he and his wife felt each other's love and let go.

The film uses the mouth of Takuhai to reveal the love of Joan one by one, so that Arthur finally understands the person he didn't know when he was alive.

1. Why did you come to Aokigahara? "Promise me, if your life ends, you won't die in that kind of place (cold hospital). Find the best place." "You're saying that like I'll know where it is when the time comes." "Yes, I I think you'll know, we all know it in our hearts." "Okay, I promise." This was their agreement, Arthur went to fulfill the contract, and Joan was there waiting for him as promised to say goodbye.

2. Joan's favorite movie: Americans in Paris. After drinking the stream, Tuohai lay down and hummed a song. The lyrics "Stairway to Paradise" came from the 1951 movie "Americans in Paris". Have you ever remembered that Joan fell asleep on the sofa when this sub-poster was on the laptop screen. When talking to rescuers later, the Japanese word "kaidan (stairs)" saved Arthur's life at a critical moment.

3. Joan's favorite place: waterside; favorite flower: orchid. In the above scene, Arthur asked Tuohai why he liked that song, and Tuohai replied, "As long as I am near the water, I am happy, this is my paradise. This song reminds me of good memories." In order to encourage Takumi, Arthur said, "That (by the water) should be where you should go when you leave here." Takumi stopped and looked at Arthur and asked "Will you? (Will you go)". When Joan and the two were looking at the photos together after the surgery, they saw a group photo in front of the lakeside hut. Joan said, "I like that lake, this is my paradise." Arthur also remembered, "You pick orchids, walk back up the stairs, Put flowers on the windowsill." The two dialogues are the same. At the end of the film, Arthur returns to the lakeside cabin to take good care of the orchids.

4. Joan's favorite book: "Hansel and Gretel". Arthur and Takumi talked about ribbons and crumbs by the campfire, Takumi said abruptly "you are handsome" (Arthur laughed for the first time here), but Takumi actually wanted to say "you are hansel (Hansel)". The allusion to the crumbs comes from Grimm's fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel". Joan's memorial service was over, and someone told Arthur that Joan's favorite book of children's stories was sent to her recently. The parcel that Arthur brought to be buried in the forest was finally opened and found to be "Hansel and Gretel".

5. Joan's favorite color: yellow (kiiro); favorite season: winter (fuyu). Takukai said his wife's name is Kirro, and his daughter's name is Fuyu. Arthur thought it was two names until his Japanese-speaking students told him that it meant yellow and winter and wasn't usually used as a first name. Matthew smiled beautifully here, and Joan gave the answer gently in this way. Another time with such a warm smile was when he was at the lakeside cabin for the last time.

6. Hua, Tuohai, Joan. The first time he found a flower on a stone in the forest, Takukai ran straight to it. "It is said that flowers will bloom when a soul passes by." When I saw the flowers blooming again, it was Arthur who returned to the forest to look for Takuhai after his injury. Under the coat that he had covered before, there was only one blooming orchid in sight. Recalling that Lin Hai's staff never found the image of Tuohai entering the forest, because there was no Tuohai.

7. Why couples who get along day and night don't understand each other, why do they love each other but hurt each other. At the beginning of the memory, the two of them had a good sudden argument in the car, and Joan said "you don't care! Your mind has been elsewhere". This is exactly the same as "My fault was indifference" when Marty reflected on his marriage in "True Detective". The habit and indifference in marriage is like a cancer.

8. Qiong asked Arthur through the mouth of Tuohai: Does she know you are here? You must have had a great marriage (Arthur shakes his head). Has it been bad all the time? Do you love her? (Arthur answered above all things in the world). Then.. why do you treat her like that? (Look at Tuohai's expression, where is a stranger, it's clearly Joan there). "I'm not here for grief, I'm here for guilt," Arthur said. I didn't treat my wife well...now we don't have a chance to say sorry to each other. Arthur finally burst into tears and kept saying "I'm sorry!" (I couldn't help crying when I saw this)

9. Joan said goodbye to Arthur through the mouth of Tuohai: she was listening. These are the darkest times of our lives and the closest we can get to those we love, even those who have passed away. She's by your side, and the forest helps you keep her. (Arthur says, I don't know if I can live without her) You don't need to know, never. (The next morning when Arthur wants to go to the rescue, when he is separated from Takukai) Thank you for taking care of me.

In the end, Joan died without complaint, and Arthur got inner peace, a warm and affectionate ending.

Seeing these miracles requires love and patience for Mathew MaConaughey, and experience. Don't let down the director's good intentions, Ken Watanabe's touching acting skills, and Matthew's self-destructing image. And me, hard coding.

Last but not least, what those who come here want to say to those who come after: cherish the people around you!

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The Sea of Trees quotes

  • Takumi Nakamura: You must know, this forest is very powerful.

  • Takumi Nakamura: [a loud howling sound is heard throughout the forest and Arthur yells if anyone is there] There is no one.

    Arthur Brennan: Then what was that?

    Takumi Nakamura: Tamashii.

    Arthur Brennan: What's tamashii?

    Takumi Nakamura: Tamashii are spirits. They are souls wandering these woods, until it is their time. Things are not what they seem here.

    Arthur Brennan: It was probably just an animal.

    Takumi Nakamura: There are very few animals in Aokigahara.

    Arthur Brennan: Well, then it was one of the few.

    Takumi Nakamura: This place is what you call purgatory.