deep love, light people

Gennaro 2022-04-23 07:04:39

There was a movie called "The Age of Innocence" a long time ago. The Chinese translation is very beautiful and it is called "The Age of Innocence". This is a very different western romance movie. Subtle oriental, not westerners with hot feelings. When I saw Shunji Iwai's "April Story", I had a feeling that this is a true love story in the age of innocence, a deep love, a faint person, in that April when the clouds and the wind are light and the cherry blossoms are flying .
By the way, in a certain April in a certain year, cherry blossoms and snow fluttered in the streets of Tokyo, a woman got married, and gradually opened the prelude to this movie. When she went to university in Tokyo, her classmates asked her why she chose this university, but she shyly did not answer. Life in Tokyo is very simple. I want to have a good relationship with my neighbors, but the neighbors are on guard. I want to be good friends with others, but that person tricks her into going to a fishing club that she doesn't know anything about. Don't care, people who are full of love will not have too many complaints, because of this love, she has the courage to chase, traveled thousands of miles to Tokyo alone, found a small shop where he worked, and took the trouble to go to study, Buying a book, and finally in that afternoon, the boy recognized her, knew that they were from a place, a high school, and they started to have a conversation, simple and soft, asking and answering questions, the girl went out of the bookstore and went outside. It was pouring rain, the boy wanted to give the girl an umbrella, the girl shyly walked away, not far away, and stopped again, a kind person gave her an umbrella, she took the umbrella and went back to find the boy, this part just entered the whole movie The climax of the play was always subtle and shy. The girl spoke her heart out. The voice was too low, the rain was too heavy, and the boy didn't hear it. The girl walked away happily, and the story ended like this.
I really like the path where the heroine often rides a bicycle to and fro in the movie. There are flowers blooming on the street, and the figure of the person she loves in her memory deep in the green grass and flowers, and she plays music attentively in the sunset. That's the person who is full of his mind. The shyness of youth makes love difficult to open. Not everyone can love someone. It is a vigorous effort and pursuit. There is another way to love. , you have deeply liked and admired it. This story reminds me of Shunji Iwai's other classic "Love Letter", which is the looming beauty in love. Maybe it can be realized at the last moment, but it has already been missed. ; But maybe just like "April Story", there is no later thing. Isn't it often said that romance has no later thing? The most beautiful self, the most beautiful age, the most beautiful memory, stopped at that time and never continued, but the purest feelings were poured into it. , until a little this love can't last, we grow up to have a little aftertaste for the love we once had. Youth, heartbeat, love, that innocent us, that innocent age, a strong love, a faint person.

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  • Lukas 2022-03-16 09:01:08

    It's so peaceful to be young, but not plain, with a little persistence, grow up silently in a corner of freedom that only you know, and open up quietly

  • Andres 2022-03-18 09:01:09

    4.3 "April Story" uses a very short time (60 minutes) to tell a very simple story. This story is fresh and beautiful, about Tokyo and Hokkaido, about a girl, and about all the people who have had a crush. This story is even better than Shunji Iwai's most famous work "Love Letter", because it is about the possibility of a lifetime of secret love, the possibility of a lifetime of youthful mentality, and the possibility of a lifetime of girlish feelings. The scene where the heroine looks back with a red umbrella at the end of the film has become the most beautiful embodiment of all secret love. Therefore, for a person, secret love is a lifetime thing, a lifetime fantasy, a lifetime desire, a lifetime love, and a lifetime freshness. Looking back, a secret love is better than a clear love...