There is always a little too late in life. This is a lesson similar to recognizing fate. —— "Non-stop"
Foreword: is Hirokazu Ee and is a famous Japanese director of literary and artistic films. Many people say that he continues the style of another famous film director, Yasujiro Ozu. For example, Ozu has a "Smell of Saury" , Through "taste" to bring out a family's worries about the marriage of their daughter. Yoshie Hiroka also has a work called "The Taste of the Yokoyama Family" (alias "Non-Stop Walking"). The whole movie of
is full of a strong smell of fireworks. Unlike Ozu's "ideal" family, the documentary director was born in Hirokazu Edema who has been pursuing "realistic" shooting techniques. Food, as a carrier of emotional elements, also plays an important role in the film. Through their trivial and fluid narratives about the family, they all bring us a clear display and thinking about the hierarchy of family values. The whole film has a beautiful picture with a strong "sorrow" aesthetic display. The starting point of the story line of
"Non-stop" is the death day of the eldest brother of the family, and the story happened in this day and a half. Although it is not a long time, through the tone of different people, the emotions and sorrows of the family over the past 15 years are restored, and the fate of different characters in the whole family is outlined.
On this day, many of the second daughters who were at home took their wife Yukari and stepson Atsushi back home to pay homage to their elder brothers. The third daughter’s family had already been waiting at home. The father always hoped that many would inherit his doctor’s family business, but many did. My own interest, the emotional gap between father and son has never disappeared, and the death of mother and eldest son also has an indelible feeling of yearning. In the film, a large number of blank images and philosophical dialogues present the joys and sorrows of this family to the audience, driving the ups and downs of emotions.
Today, I will analyze the charm of this film from three perspectives: the content of the story, the symbolic meaning, and the aesthetics of the "sorrow". In the fourth part, I will also talk about my thoughts on family and family in conjunction with the film.
01. Each kind of food represents a kind of memorial, and the process of cooking has a strong sense of ritual, family conflicts and reconciliation can be dissolved on the table
①The symbolic meaning of food, take corn tempura as an example to see the expression, extension, The allusive meaning of
is that Hirokazu Kee’s movies enrich a large number of nuanced descriptions of life. The audience who has watched his movies will be brought into the story by the completely life-like scenes. There are also a large number of such scenes in "Non-stop", especially the cooking scene. Although it can't keep up with the accurate introduction of each ingredient in "China on the Tip of the Tongue", it uses the mother's skill in cutting vegetables and the stew in the pot. The boiling sound and the rustling sound of edamame rolling in the basket let the audience experience the temptation of delicious food and then think of the taste of home.
In fact, every food has a meaning. For example, corn tempura is the favorite food of the eldest son. Every day on the death day of Chunping, my mother will cook this dish, which carries the family's remembrance and memory for the dead. My mother once said, "It's strange, I don't seem to have any childhood memories unless I cook them." When Tempura reached her mother’s taste buds through touch and taste, it was like a memory inheritance. When her mother stole corn 30 years ago to make tempura for Junping, Junping said happily, “I knew this way No need to go to the market to buy corn."
It can be seen that corn tempura is like a love song about death, firmly cementing the irreconcilable conflict between death and family resuscitation in the hearts of the audience, turning mother's infinite thoughts into a ray of sorrow.
②Reflect the family relationship from the cooking ceremony
In Japanese culture, food culture is very important. Every meal of the Hengshan family is carefully prepared, and the ritualized features are quite obvious. The kitchen is the most important work place for mothers daily. In the film, close-up shots are constantly used to aim at various kitchen utensils. We will find everything here is in order. Obviously, my mother took great pains to get the family a delicious meal. The mother of
first ordered a 170-dollar premium sea urchin sushi. From this cost, we can see how much her mother attaches to the dinner party. When making corn tempura, many are responsible for peeling the corn, the daughter stirs the flour, and the mother is responsible for frying and cooking. The whole process is connected in an orderly manner. The whole family is careful and meticulous about cooking. This is not only a tribute to the food, but also reflects the harmonious family atmosphere.
evenThe father who is awkward with his son will show up on time when he smells the scent of rice. In a ritual dinner, the father is the last link, that is, you must wait for the whole family to start eating together. This sense of ritual carries the spirit of inclusive Japanese family culture, even if there is a big conflict when facing food Nor shall it be damaged.
③From food culture to family relations
half of the entire film is focused on the kitchen, and even many conflict scenes inevitably converge on the table. For example, after the meal, the mother took her daughter and daughter-in-law to look at a lot of photos from their childhood. At this time, only the father and a lot were left, and the atmosphere changed from just cheerfulness to embarrassment. Although his father resented many for not being able to inherit the mantle of doctors, he still hoped to change many aspirations for his career.
Even in front of the brother-in-law, the father took the trouble to raise the issue of inheriting the clinic, and received a lot of fierce rebuttals. He also needed to adjust the atmosphere through his brother-in-law's gag.
It can be said that through the food culture, the film renders the father-son relationship and the mother-son relationship without leaving traces. Every audience who has this experience will feel the same.
02. Home is a warm harbor. Despite the many contradictions, it can finally resolve
. In terms of narrative, the film has a strong personal documentary style, which breaks through the usual narrative mode. Instead, it adopts the flow of life and uses Hegel’s "conflict" "Law" as the basis. That is to construct the story around the conflict of the incident, starting from the early morning mother-daughter dialogue, only withholding the theme of "home".
film theorist Balazs said: "The main object of the film is the material details. At the same time, due to the decline of ideology, our souls that have been broken into pieces will inevitably be more suitable for absorbing material life. A short moment.”
When recalling the story of his son and wife stealing corn to make tempura, his father smiled for a long time. Obviously, the memory fragments of the past were picked up from the depths of memory. Innocence and beautiful memories.
, but years are always ruthless. As children grow up, they have their own plans for the future. The passing away leaves a huge haze for the whole family. Many wives say to him "You are the eldest son", but many Insist on saying that he is the "second son", in his heart, his brother is a person who always exists and is also a sign of the integrity of the family. The job that his father forced to give him the doctor actually represented the lack of emotion in the whole family, and his father just transferred this emotion from the dead brother to many places.
The contradiction here seems to contradict the warmth of home, but this kind of "resentment" is not insoluble, after all, "blood is thicker than water".
In many concepts, he is different from his father's requirements in future choices, and all the differences converge here, and they stop here. Many have never regarded their father as an enemy, and their father also understands this truth. When they talk about family trivial matters, the atmosphere is cheerful, and when it comes to occupation, the two people still have "thorns" in their hearts, but even if they are "thorns", they still miss their father in many hearts.
Because he fell in love with Yuka who took the child, he has always hoped to receive the blessing of his parents, so on his brother's death day, he still returned here without hesitation. There is not only nostalgia for his brother but also yearning for the future in his subconscious. For him, the family can contain everything, his shortcomings, his willfulness, his choices.
No matter the parent-child relationship has contradictions, the father and mother also have conflicts before. For example, when my father was young, he went out to have an affair, and his wife accidentally mentioned that she had been following, but decades later, the mother had already let go, but the father who heard it was in a cold sweat. This attitude of seeing through without telling the truth proves that the mother is a smart person. She knows that her husband will turn his head back, and she has been caring for the family for decades.
and his father said to a lot of people that he should communicate with his mother more. why? It is precisely because of the conflict between the two that the father hopes that his son can comfort his mother. From this point of view, the father is mainly unable to save face, and he has a deep attachment to his wife.
Time is the best medicine to prove everything. In the passage of the film, we have seen the most authentic and beautiful appearance of the family. There were contradictions and conflicts in the days of decades, but they were resolved in the heart of each member. They retained the pure love for their lovers. It is this love that allows them to live such a happy life.
03,The beauty of the sorrow is about white space, and the color matching is very beautiful. Object grief is divided into three levels, including touching people, touching the world and touching natural objects. Objects refer to natural scenery and scenery, and mourning refers to the emotions of people in the environment triggered by these scenery. The
film actually has a deep sense of desolation. Every character is ordinary and sincere. Many of these factors are derived from the support of the theory of sorrow. They are mainly manifested in the following aspects:
① The strong contrast of light and dark tones highlights the character’s mood and destiny direction
. It is intuitively visible with his father's appearance. With his father's walk, the entire family and even the living environment are presented to the audience. The green trees, the gray sea, and the green sky all show a taste of elegance, tranquility, and even a little sadness. The costumes of the characters are also all neutral colors, mainly black, white and gray. This kind of tone embodies the idea of sorrow.
Through the rendering of the overall tone, the audience can feel the combination of sadness and beauty. This is the direct feeling brought by the emotions of the audience through the description of the scene. As the camera moves, the different destinies of this family are slowly revealed. The eldest son passed away, the second son worked hard to live a hopeful life, and the third daughter took the two children to be full-time wives. This change of mentality matched the tone of the external environment, especially when the mother saw the beautiful butterfly and recognized it as For pure souls, the audience will be more attracted by the color of this deep and mysterious sky, and they will appreciate the beauty of grief.
②The concise blank space hides the implicit artistic conception
blank space is a common creative method in calligraphy and calligraphy. In the limited creative space, the blank space is used to show the beauty of the artistic conception. This technique pursues the implicit beauty of "silent is better than sound". In the concise movie screens, the so-called conciseness is more about not using physical language, but using tonal changes that highlight the key points, so that the audience can first understand the subject that the creator wants the audience to understand.
For example, when shooting a mother, the camera will be aimed at the face, and the blank areas are mostly kitchens or streets with a single tone. This method makes the characters immediately become the focus on the pale background. The smiles and frowns of the mother's expression are more likely to resonate with the audience. Another example is the last scene, when the parents are walking together, they give a long-term view. People are drifting away among the green trees. Although they seem to be shooting the whole environment, they named the mother's departure through subtitles, and they are frozen. On the steps my mother had just walked. The color remains the same as before, still a light tone, and a sense of powerlessness blends in the audience with the pale color.
③The harmonious unity of nature and human feelings
The appearance of the characters is inseparable from the scenery. The family is in the home of the small town, and the lush green and green trees constitute the main picture. Here, Naimai’s parents are like sturdy tree trunks, raising their grown-up children and their offspring. This is actually a transformation of life forms.
When walking with his mother, many suddenly discovered that "I have not watched a movie with her, nor drove her to go shopping." When he stopped, he realized that his mother is the one who owes the most. This This kind of transformation is becoming more precious because of the luxuriant branches and leaves of the trees, which also proves that our mother is our strongest backing.
The pink cherry blossoms that fall when children play outdoors are also full of advantages. The passage of this kind of years is ruthless. The children were playing carefree at the moment, and for decades, they will be lost in grief at the table just like their father. In the Japanese thoughts of sorrow, beauty is short and perishable, so it pursues tranquility and splendor in a short life, but many regrets are caused by this, and this sad element is also integrated into the narrative of the film. In, constitute the eternal effect in death.
04, based on the film "Non-stop", talk about my thoughts on family relationships and family life.
The narrative style of "Non-stop" is warm and peaceful. The film symbolizes the warmth and tolerance of the family. Here, there are unpretentious family affection and life of tea, rice, oil and salt, everyone's life is as plain as water, but hot as fire , Let every audience immerse in the warmth of family and the cumbersome family, experience the most real life truth, and sigh with the director's powerful control over reality. The story in the
movie is typical. Through good product andMy father’s relationship has given me a deeper understanding of family relationships and family life. This understanding is mainly reflected in the following three aspects:
①The essence of life is to give, and children should always think about it and experience the love of their parents' selfless dedication. The great
Schopenhauer once said, "Whether a person is happy should not be measured by how many happy things he has, but whether he is worrying about some trivial things. Only happy people will take care of trivial things. In my heart. Those who have experienced catastrophes have no time to take care of these small things. Therefore, after losing their happiness, people will find that they once existed." The parents in the
film are constantly giving, but the children feel the pain. Ashamed. They are not only the children of their parents, but also the parents of their children. Therefore, everyone is giving while asking, and whether to give or take depends on how much you love this person or this thing. There are no parents who don't love their children, so in front of their children, they don't listen to them, causing them to want to escape. All this stems from deep love. However, who can say that this love is not worth praising?
② Father’s beliefs should not be imposed on children. Personality is equal. Only by letting go of obsessions can we respect each other.
The father in the film is sad. He walks in the small town every day. Every neighbor has expectations of him. This kind of expectation is a kind of love in itself, but his father's excessive obsession made him morally kidnapped. It seems that the death of the neighbor is related to the son's inability to inherit the doctor's family business. But it should be clear that in a harmonious and friendly family environment, everyone's personality is equal, and cannot be imposed because of age experience. The strong opposition of the son is precisely the rebellious psychology generated by the coercion and temptation of the father.
Back then, his father, who studied medicine because his grandfather was ill, regretted his life for failing to save his grandfather's life. This was based on his personal pain. But his wish is for his son to inherit. He must respect his son's thoughts. Many obviously don't like it, but his father persuaded him over and over again, even to the point of resentment. This is caused by an unfortunate childhood. Therefore, in order to eliminate this situation fundamentally, the father must first be aware of his own problems. However, in respect of the child's choice, whether it is persisting or giving up, life is an art of regret. Because of this regret, life has the value of pursuing dreams.
③For the departure of relatives, the mother can never escape from the psychological effect of self-protection
Maternal love is great. The most kind and kind mother in the film invites Chunping to save people home every year, just to make him feel this. Feeling oppressed, his father said, "He is really a waste", but it was this person that Chunping saved with his life. My mother never forgets her son and the people saved by him every year. This kind of thinking even makes her a kind of spiritual dependence. I feel that Chunping never left. This is actually a great love. Even when my mother passes away, I believe her I will always miss Junping.
Psychologically, reminiscing about the son can actually relieve the mother’s negative emotions, help the mother gain a positive self-awareness, and help heal her psychological trauma. Purely leaving, just like the butterfly, took away his mother's thoughts and kept him in her mother's heart.
Conclusion:
"Non-Stop Walking" after reading, not only makes people feel melancholy, but also feels warm. The mother's selfless love for each child is admired with emotion. The warmth is that the whole family adopted a forward-looking attitude in the face of the pure departure, without any complaints because of misfortune befalling this family. The charm of this film is also reflected in these three aspects of content, symbolic meaning and object mourning.
From the movies, the whole family lives hard, and from the beautiful clips from the past years, we can also feel a lot of practical guiding significance and thinking.
