This film is by no means a part of any familiar Japanese romance action movies, suspense mystery movies, thriller horror movies, or pure love movies.
It is simply the van Gogh and Pissarro in Japanese films.
Movie fans who do not watch popcorn movies, please take the initiative to avoid this movie -
"Happy Time"
This is a pretty awesome life film, and there is a pretty awesome time - 317 minutes, which is 5 hours and 17 minutes in hours, which is enough for you to watch two Lord of the Rings. All the actors in the
film are students of the Kobe Improvisation Research Association, from children in their teens to aunts in their 60s, without exception.
They have no acting experience except for studying and studying in their spare time. This movie is equivalent to their graduation thesis, so everyone tried their best to play their roles.
is such an amateur work. It shines at the 68th Locarno International Film Festival, won three awards nominations: Golden Leopard Award, Best Actress, and Special Notes Award, and finally won the Best Actress Award.
was in Japan and won the third place in the 2015 "Movie Weekly".
French " Movie Manual " praises its unexpected success. Such praise is not something that any movie can get.
Douban netizens gave a high score of 8.0, and the score of this film has been growing silently. I wonder if it can break through 9 points.
The opening of the movie reminds you of the Japanese film master Ozu Yajiro .
director Hamaguchi Ryusuke obviously borrowed from the master's technique - the quiet, poetic empty shot, the Kobe scenery throughout the film, and the inadvertent blank space can easily remind people of "Yiyi" directed by Yang Dechang.
The main characters of the film, Shi Aki, Jun, Sakurako and Fumi, are four women in their 40s.
Their emotional crisis and the hidden worries of the entire Japanese urbanites, both male and female characters reveal a trace of despair of facing life.
video is two paragraphs. The first half describes the leisure time of four middle-aged women outside their family life, which laid the groundwork for the outbreak of conflict in the second half.
Among them are divorced single women, intellectual female planners who are in love, housewives with gentle personalities, and women who insist on divorce from their husbands.
Currently, most Japanese women still choose to become a full-time housewife after marriage, , taking care of their husbands and children.
However, the greater the social temptation, the stronger the women's independent awareness. In the past, the pattern of wives obeying their husbands was in crisis, and women need to get along well with themselves outside of family life. There are two realistic activities in the
film, which express the psychological changes of the four women in the form of group dramas.
Part1. Four friends participated in a body seminar to learn to find the center of gravity of the body. Break the inner barriers through physical contact and return trust to each other's interactions and communication.
This half-hour learning process, the director completely blurs the boundary between virtual and realistic using truth-clarification.
The four training methods used in learning symbolize four communication methods - sitting back to back (trust, friendship), swaying the body to find the centerline of the two (frequently appearing close-up of Ozu style front), listening to the voice of one's own center of gravity (i.e., dantian) (human and wife, parent-child, may also imply that Jun and Sakurako's son's girlfriend will become pregnant one after another) and contacting the forehead to convey thoughts (further becomes kissing, or ideological communication).
The length of half an hour tests patience, and the direct cracks of the four inseparable friends are also created by the end of this paragraph.
training sharing stage, Sakurako revealed that she felt that her body was attracted attention and her mood was understood. This is actually the reason for his difficulties.
Chun also revealed that she was caught in a protracted divorce lawsuit because of unilateral affair. Ming was asked by Ming, who had disagreements in values. Ming ran away, and Fumei immediately said goodbye to follow.
Although the four people gathered together again afterwards, the cracks had already occurred. The part to Arima Hot Springs became the last time the four female companions split.
This time everyone looked very happy, but there had been subtle changes in their hearts.
As a pure adhesive and lubricant between friends, she chose to leave alone after traveling, and this small group also officially announced its disintegration. The group photo in front of the waterfall became a discrete ceremony, which also implies that the audience is about to enter a new stage with uncertain future.
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At this time, Akira's fair questioning of Chun's husband became the initiator of Sakurako's outbreak. Fumi was too busy to take care of herself and seemed absent-minded about Chun's disappearance.
The relationship between four friends has been significantly broken in this section. The climax of the video in the full reading session section.
Sakurako went to the pre-appointed reading meeting as promised. After returning from a trip, Ming fell down the stairs and broke his leg. When he rushed to the reading meeting, he ran away with the tutor who had been chatting with Fumi, who was leaving and went to his sister's bar to release the depression in his heart.
almost completely records the entire process of the reading party and celebration banquet.
agreed to be absent as a guest of conversation, and to be fair and temporary, use your own work experience to connect your understanding of the novel, and tell the confusion of emotions between men and women.
The fair monologue of the whole story is very exciting and intriguing. This also led to an asymmetric conversation between him and Sakurako at the later celebration banquet. Fumi finally realized the unfit gap between him and Takuya.
Finally, Sakurako went to bed with a middle-aged man showing goodwill to her at the seminar. Fumi was jealous of her boyfriend's sending her young female writer. Ming, who had been talking nonsense with his mentor in the bar, also expressed his favor to this willful and gentle guy. From the fair mouth, we can know that it is purely a confidentiality institution that protects women who cannot successfully divorce.
In the gap between the reading meeting about to begin, the video interspersed a clip of Sakurako's son who was about to leave on a cruise ship and was meeting his girlfriend's son who was planning to elope with her because of her unexpected pregnancy. At this time, the pure belly was already prominent. The lost boy leaned on her belly and listened to the movement of the growth of new life, and his heart was greatly comforted.
When I sent Chun to the cruise ship, the boy sincerely thanked Chun for her, thanking her for giving him a red rope. Chun left, looking back at the former home and the life that was about to be born, life is still as magnificent as the sea.
The three people chose the way they thought they were good to them, but the director did not give any of them the final ending. The processing method of
is perfect!
This film is good at leaving blank space, which makes the plot simple and clean, and also provides the audience with sufficient time to apply to themselves and gain resonance.
Hamaguchi Ryusuke claimed that the film was a work that paid tribute to John Casavitz 's "Husband". However, in the exquisite structure, the friendly story and a slightly chaotic dialogue, the audience can see the shadows of several New Wave masters such as Fellini , Edgar Ferran ; there is also a delicate female perspective similar to Kelly Rechard .
Although it is from a female perspective, the work does not intend to make men bear the crime of breaking their relationship.
The problems and mental states encountered by Japanese women are manifested one by one - weakness, numbness, hollowness, depression...
These women use different forms of resistance, but life continues. What kind of ending is the real ending?
This film cannot give the answer we need, and most people in the world cannot give themselves this answer.
