The style of the film is quiet and restrained, with undercurrents surging. It was Hirokazu Koreeda that established his own aesthetic style. The rhythm of the film is even slower than most of the director's subsequent works, like a long stream of water.
Like many film directors, it was Hirokazu Koreeda who always liked grand propositions when he was young. For example, the difficult proposition of "life and death" was emphatically interpreted in the first two films directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. In the later works, although there are mentions of similar motifs, they are much more bland and soft, not as "deliberate" as the first two works, eager to seek answers.
Like the heroine, just after watching the movie, I don't quite understand why the husband played by Tadanobu Asano committed suicide, but this is the chewing and stamina of Hirokazu Koreeda's movie. After thinking about it, I understand that it is the phantom light that Hirokazu Koreeda wanted to express. meaning.
What is Phantom Light? The dialogue at the end of the movie said that it wasn't that the male protagonist played by Tadanobu Asano abandoned anyone, but something else on the other side was calling him, such as light, the light with hallucinations and illusions, the illusion that summoned him from a distance. Light.
It was Hirokazu Koreka who chose the heroine well, and the heroine Makiko Ekaku won the Best Newcomer Award at the 19th Japan Film Academy Award for this film. After watching this film, you will definitely miss the heroine. The drama is heavy, and it can be said that the heroine is the clue character who runs through the whole film.
To be honest, the reason I always wanted to watch this movie was partly because it was Hirokazu Kore-eda's debut, and the other was because of the movie's poster.
The heroine Makiko Ekaku on the poster looked into the distance silently, firmly, and profoundly. With the dim tones, the whole person was full of charm, and she was simply glowing. After watching the movie, I feel that this poster fits the theme of the movie very well.
Yumiko, the heroine played by Makiko Ekaku, has always been troubled by the fact that she did not stop her grandmother who insisted on returning from the city to the country to die alone. , failing to stop her grandmother became her nightmare.
The story of my grandmother reminds me of two movies. Hou Hsiao-hsien's "My Childhood" also left home again and again, hoping to return to the mainland's hometown of Meijiang Bridge. The grandmother who wants to go back to North Korea. Although the themes of the three films are different, this feeling of returning to the roots is equally moving.
In this film, the departure of her grandmother has made Yumiko an adult who has been unable to let go, and her husband's suicide for no reason has also become a mystery that cannot be solved. Her confusion may be the line Ang Lee said in "The Fantastic Drifting of Pi", "Life is about letting go all the time, but unfortunately, we didn't say goodbye." Yumiko felt that she owed a goodbye .
Yumiko couldn't accept the suicide of her husband played by Tadanobu Asano. She always thought that he died in despair because he couldn't see it through, couldn't think about it, was dissatisfied with life, and gave up in despair. Looking forward to it, just like the grandmother in the beginning of the movie insists on going back to her hometown. When she was young, her grandmother insisted on going without stopping; as an adult, she was full of regret, just as she could not solve her husband's unprovoked suicide. It was growing up that made her "understand" death, and also "understand" death.
At the end of the film, the heroine understands the meaning of "phantom light", "life is as bright as summer flowers, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves". From another angle, it might be "facing the sea, spring flowers bloom".
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