What details of "Love Letter" touched you?

Leonard 2022-04-24 07:01:23

Probably a lot of people will talk about the love part, but it is the details of death that impress me the most.

After Nushu learned the news of Nanshu's death, the camera went back to her third year of junior high school. She saw a frozen dragonfly while skiing. She felt death in a single thought and realized the fact that her father died.

Reminds me of "Manchester by the Sea", where the son was very calm at the beginning of his father's funeral, as if he didn't have much emotion. After a long time, I saw the frozen meat in the refrigerator suddenly collapsed and cried, and suddenly realized my father's current state and realized death.

There will always be moments of being struck by death, or fearing helplessness or suppressing grief, and these are essential experiences in our lives and growth.

"We use fear to express our reverence for death." When I was young, when I thought about death, I felt very scared. It is an uncontrollable force that everyone will face eventually. Fear that death will take away the people you love most, and that death will take away all the rich experiences of life. But only later did we discover that we can truly accept it by facing death and knowing death.

Love Letter (1995)
8.9
1995 / Japan / Drama Love / Shunji Iwai / Nakayama Miho Toyokawa Etsuji

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  • Jermain 2022-03-17 09:01:08

    It talks about the ignorance of love (female Fujiiki) and wishful thinking (Hiroko) and the scumbag (male Fujiiki) who never wants to open their hearts sincerely torture them. Of course, Shunji Iwai used the unique aesthetic taste of the Japanese to put a layer of aesthetic and pure shell on the one-way controlled mental abuse (serious crush and cold deceit), giving it a sublimated beauty of good and evil. The end of the film is really a chromatic movement of emotional and spiritual torture. Hiroko faces the snow-capped fiance who is still infinitely nostalgic for deceiving her. On the other side, the female Fujiiki suddenly finds out the secret and falls into infinite regret for the missing love. A dead man planned a thrilling mental and emotional control of two women with dramatic ups and downs over the course of ten years. God knows how this ending is so tearful, this is the level of Shunji Iwai. I checked the list of his directorial works and found that none of his works are really about love. It is all about the mistake, misunderstanding, deception, control and passive endurance of the relationship between the two. This is his true intention to express it.

  • Clementina 2022-01-21 08:02:55

    I will never forget the appearance of Takashi Kashiwahara leaning against the window. He was holding a book and looking down. The curtains were gently floating behind him. Looking up, I saw the cleanness and beauty of the beautiful boy at the end of this century. "Love Letter" is the classic Iwai Shunji photography style. Since then, many romance films have borrowed his framing and photography style.

Love Letter quotes

  • Male itsuki fujii: [Checking out books from the female Itsuki in the school libray. The male Itsuki holds up five checkout cards that he has been the first to sign like a poker hand. He speaks in English] Fujii Itsuki straight flush.