This film gave me a strong sense of reality from the beginning: the superiors in Japanese society beat and scold their subordinates at will; The star is drunk and late; Invoice for shopping for personal benefit; Meet for the first time, exchange business cards and so on. The dialogues and actions of the characters naturally flow out of life. Some people say the beginning is boring? I don't think so at all And the big head of the whole movie, the memory of the dead girl is unfolded in this atmosphere.
In the form of stalkers, girls and boys met funny. Because the girl wants the boy to play in her movie, they are more familiar with each other. Gradually the girl developed feelings for the boy, but the boy stared at other girls everywhere like a headless fly. No one wants girls, but boys say yes, saying they don't treat girls as women. The girl is leaving, and she wants the boy to stay. The boy only says let her cheer. When the girl left forever, the boy couldn't help crying when he saw the "love letter" left by the girl. ...
It seems that this is a regrettable miss like a love letter. Or like some common love scenes: the hero discovers true love too late? . However, when I saw the episode about 26 and 34 in the film, I firmly denied the above idea. When a 34-year-old woman asks a boy, "If you knew I was 34 from the beginning, would you still associate with me?" If I told you I was divorced, would you still date me? The boy didn't answer, but he was even more surprised and asked, "Divorced?" "The woman looked at him and left.
Boys don't choose girls just because boys forget why they fall in love. Like most people in reality, it seems that the heart is not the standard to measure love, but some external standards have become the yardstick of love. As boys and girls discussed on campus, "For boys, as long as they are beautiful women in Akita, it is basically ok, but girls will calmly associate with him while saying' this guy will be bald in ten years'. This standard is really incomprehensible. " The boy has been looking for love, but what he is looking for is not the inner love, but the love under the scale. How can he not miss that girl?
Tell me more about this girl. A seemingly ordinary girl has been seriously pursuing her dreams. She is a beautiful diamond, but all her brilliance is in it. That's why a girl with inner beauty can't shine in a ridiculous program of looking for someone who has talked for almost 1 minute. In this real society, the reason why a girl with such earnest and enthusiastic words goes abroad is actually because she listened carefully to a drunken boss to vent his nagging and bragging. It's not that the boss is irresponsible, but when he looks at the girl in surprise and seriously considers his drunken remarks, that look really makes people feel ridiculous and ironic. Such a serious and beautiful girl seems to be an existence that is inconsistent with reality and transcends reality.
Boys are to girls what reality is to dreams. For most people in the world, reality and dreams are just two parallel lines. For a real boy, a girl can only be an unreachable rainbow on the horizon. ...
The last sentence in the drama "The End of the World" "I was the only one who ended my life." Isn't this loneliness and sadness the cry in the girl's heart?
Just like the last love letter in Love Letter, I cried when I saw the last love letter in this film. Only the former is crying for an incomplete beauty, and the latter is crying for a beautiful girl. The former is a sigh, and the latter is sad, as sad as a crying boy.
The girl left alone, and the boy cried sadly ... This is not a love fairy tale, but a realistic love story. Although it's not a producer's work by Shunji Iwai, the shooting angle and the use of lens are too unique. I wonder if this Mr. Xiongze Ren Shang is his student?
In a word, in my eyes, this movie made by Iwai and supervised by Mr. Xiongze, although not as good as Love Letter or even Story of April, is still a good movie because it can move people.
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This is the first work in Shunji Iwai's "playworks" project. Ichihara Hayato, who starred in Everything in Lily Week, and Juri Ueno, who starred in Swing Girl, starred in this film. Tomoya, who works in a TV production company, suddenly learned that his college classmate Aoi sora was killed in an airplane accident in the United States. In college, Tomoya and Aoi sora made movies together in the film club, and they had a very good relationship. Tomoya likes Aoi sora's friends, so Aoi sora helps. But unconsciously, Aoi sora fell in love with Tomoya. Only at Aoi sora's funeral did Tomoya know Aoi sora's sincerity.
About the film
Director Shunji Iwai's first film, The Rainbow Goddess, recently appeared at Busan Film Festival. Although the film was not directed by Shunji Iwai and the actors Ichihara Hayato and Juri Ueno were newcomers in Japanese entertainment circle, it caused a sensation in South Korea because of Shunji Iwai's signboard. The Rainbow Goddess is expected to be released in South Korea next month, but it has caused a battle for film distribution. At present, three publishers have tried to seize the distribution right of this film in South Korea.
Shunji Iwai, the director who caused a sensation by shooting Love Letter, also enjoys a high reputation in South Korea. When Love Letter was released in Korea, about 6,543.8+0.5 million Koreans went to the cinema, which was the best achievement of Japanese realistic films in Korea. Since then, young Korean directors have also begun to learn the directing skills and techniques of director Shunji Iwai. Up to now, when Japanese directors are mentioned in Korea, almost everyone knows Shunji Iwai and love letters.
Since directing the film Flowers and Alice in 2004, Shunji Iwai hasn't released any new works. The film "Rainbow Goddess" is the first work of the Japanese film talent training program "PLAY-WORKS" initiated by Shunji Iwai. It is basically a youth love story with Shunji Iwai style and has a tragic ending. As early as ten years ago, Shunji Iwai expressed his desire to participate in film production as a producer.
At present, the film has been shown publicly in South Korea, and three publishers have offered high-priced auctions. The film is expected to be released in Korea in June at 5438+0 1, and the number of participating cinemas will reach about 100.