This is a movie from almost 20 years ago, and Song Takako's slightly baby-fat face is full of immaturity. And I can't remember when I watched it for the first time, when I watched it for the second time, was there a third time, and this time it was the first time, I don't even remember, it turned out that the movie was so short , it ends before you can see enough. Those feelings seem to be in the distant past, just like the quality of the movie, although it has been restored, it still can't hide the strong sense of age.
The story is as simple as it gets. Compared with Shunji Iwai's other works, it is like a small pre-dinner salad, light and short. Throwing away those decadent youth and love after years, he threw away all the eye-catching elements in "April Story", leaving only an introverted and lonely 18-year-old girl. In the spring with cherry blossom petals flying, she traveled through time and space to visit me, who was also in April, hiding under the quilt, watching her carefully browse the bookstore, ride a bicycle, and finally hold a broken umbrella in the heavy rain, I I actually laughed along with it, my heart is so warm. A trace of happiness is fleeting, which should be brought to us by spring. Although it sometimes rains annoyingly, the warm sunshine and the smell of plants in the air still give people hope.
Left home in Hokkaido alone, came to Tokyo alone to start a new life, clumsily trying to help the workers move but it can only be a burden - what a soft girl Uzuki is. Although I can only be so nervous when I introduce myself that I can't speak, I still have to say that I have a "cheerful personality", which is really cute. She seemed to be embarrassed to even respond to a female classmate's approach, she looked weak, but she still had an unbreakable obsession in her heart, which was her crush on the senior.
Secret love is really a sport that introverted East Asians are good at. It can't be seen or caught, but it is long and tough.
This buried feeling in the bottom of my heart brought her across Japan to come here, and it also made all the loneliness a cloud of smoke. When your heart is full of hope, you will be happy even if no one speaks. When the three words "Musashino" endowed with a special halo really become a part of life, they are already too satisfied. It also makes me in the future, when I see the three words Musashino, always have a romantic scene of cherry blossoms in my mind.
Whenever the shy Uzuki looked at it, she couldn't help but think of herself.
Before going abroad, the head teacher said to me, "For a child as introverted and sensitive as you, you have to be extra careful when you are abroad." Such an inconspicuous me was once a person who came to an unfamiliar city in a classmate's car. Beginning of college life, the freshness and confusion when entering the dormitory, just like her. Thinking about starting a brand new four years, meeting new friends, and a lot of things to look forward to, I was scared. When someone knocked on my door at night and told me to go to a freshman party, I quietly refused. When the freshmen introduced each other, I just finished briefly with a blushing face.
There is a small remote Nordic country hidden in our hearts, which has never been noticed, and the happiness index is still very high.
Like her, I have a broken umbrella that I can't bear to throw away, and I still have to hold it up no matter how sloppy it is.
In this April, I went to see the cherry blossoms, but found that they had already withered, and there were many problems. However, after watching this movie, I regained those small fragments that were about to be washed away, and suddenly I fell asleep sweetly. . In the last shot, Uzuki said, this is a miracle of love. I, who was about to give up the so-called "miracle", chose to continue to believe.
It's been so many years since I was eighteen, and I'm still the one who is not smart, slow to respond, and panicked when there are many people. April in Uzuki ended in a movie of more than 60 minutes, and I still have so many Aprils, and there will be someone to accompany me to watch the cherry blossoms that I can't enjoy, I think.
There will definitely be sakurabuki that does not stop.
There will definitely be a delicious curry rice.
There must be a lover who breaks the umbrella on a rainy day.
And why am I still sad? Why are you always envious of others?
I think.
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