Whenever I talk about summer movies with others, I always think of a Japanese movie (a serious Japanese movie) that I accidentally found online when I was in college. The name of that movie It's called Little Forest Summer and Autumn Chapter (actually a short story combining summer and autumn).
A long time later, when I was reading movie reviews on Douban, I learned that "Little Forest" is divided into four parts: "Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter". It is a movie adapted from the original work of the manga artist Daisuke Igarashi. What you can see is the high-definition version of the two collections "Summer" and "Autumn". It happens to be the high-definition version with Chinese subtitles that I saw. I hope everyone respects the original copyright.
Shizi under the green shade
Rich green trees quickly retreated on both sides. Young Shizi rode a bicycle on the asphalt road in the countryside, passing through woods, farmland, and countryside, and came to this place called Komori. Komori is a small place with only a few households. It is located in a small basin at the foot of a smoky mountain forest. Several households are scattered around the farmland. The shopping place is a 30-minute bicycle ride away. In the market, small supermarkets and other shops run by farmers' cooperatives supply the daily needs of all surrounding villagers.
Isolated Bird
The stream gurgled under the sunshine, and Shizi’s day began to wake up under the sun. The weeds in the paddy fields were a day’s work, and the food after the work was Shizi’s favorite. This movie is different from It is better to say that it is a film about rural pastoral life than a documentary about food.
During the summer work, Ichiko showed how to make 7 kinds of food as if escaping from life, from toasting bread, brewing rice wine, argan jam, Worcester soy sauce, to hazelnut jam, Yujihua mud, and finally Including canned tomatoes, Shizi in the movie is like a gourmet cooking all kinds of delicacies in life, like an elf who does not belong to the countryside cooking those beautiful foods. It gave me a feeling of being out of place, but it also gave me a sense of wonder. A sense of slow life.
The autumn green began to turn yellow, and Komori's Ichiko also put on autumn clothes.
In the colors of autumn, Komori's Ichiko also showed the entire autumn of Japan through 7 kinds of food. From Mutong fruits, to walnut rice, fried onions and vinegar char , chestnuts in sugar water, dried sweet potatoes , Muscovy duck, and finally to fried vegetables, the display of food is so casual, no It was deliberately arranged like a big meal. Shizi also lost himself in the life in the countryside, escaping from the city, and lost in the peace of mind. Just like me, I grew up in a rural area. Most of our food comes from the land. We eat whatever the land produces. Although the types of food are relatively monotonous, we farm by ourselves, weed and fertilize ourselves, and then harvest and cook. When the food becomes food, the joy of eating it at the end is a happiness I can never experience again.
Japanese movies always have a hazy feeling that is divorced from reality, and the Little Forest series of movies cannot break away from the tradition of Japanese movies. The casual Komori's Ichiko gave me the beauty of food, and I have a longing for the Japanese countryside, but it will never You can't express the hard work of fertilizing and weeding under the scorching sun, you can't express the joy of seeing the harvest, and the emotion of making the food into food.
In the final analysis, the Little Forest series of films is made for people in the city who have never experienced farm work. Food is used to show the poetry and distance of the countryside, and food is used to dilute the depression of the countryside and the attribute of escaping from the crowd. Therefore, all the rich colors in the movie are given to the food part, using recipes to form the entire season, and then using the four seasons to show the longing for life.
