? On the journey of youth, In their lush years, some people love to fantasize about some strange stories, and even put themselves into them, firmly believing that their owl is just lost and will never graduate from Hogwarts; some people will be moved to tears by a line from a film and television character, That sentence "I love you three thousand" broke so many people's hearts; there are still people who, although they are hibernating in the Milky Way among people, have always yearned for the unreachable distance. The stars and the sea are their direction of progress.
? In the animated movie "The Flower and Alice Murder Case", the youth of Flower and Alice is a relaxed and funny adventure. "Tetsuko Arisugawa, a girl studying in junior high school, transferred to Ishinomori Academy due to her parents' divorce. What made her a little frustrated was that her classmates looked at her strangely and even stayed away from her. This was learned from her classmate Mutsumi. It turns out that the former owner of the table where Tetsuko is sitting was once involved in a murder case known as "Judas and his four wives", and there is another table behind that table. Its owner, Hana Arai, has been absent from school for a long time. It happened to be Tetsuko's current neighbor. In order to find out the truth about the murder, Tetsuko, who named herself "Alice", boldly entered Hana's house and learned about various past events about "Judas". , these two girls with somewhat eccentric but clever and cute personalities began their great friendship..." (Excerpted from the Douban movie synopsis of "The Murder of Flowers and Alice") This is a slow-paced, warm and healing youth movie. Due to the lack of content in the first half of the movie, the lack of smoothness of the picture, and its unique painting style, some viewers may not be able to accept it.
But it is like "Love Letter" that allows me to enjoy the faint, hazy beauty of youth. A lazy afternoon, the sun is warm and the breeze blows on my face, touching my nerves. The movie scene suddenly appeared in front of my eyes, including cherry blossoms and ballet, music and running, the care of the grandfather, and the help of strangers. These warmth made the movie so beautiful that I knew this was not reality.
The scene of Tetsuko and her grandfather playing on the swing together makes people feel sad. On one side is the white-haired, haggard old man who has gone through most of his life, and on the other side She is a girl who is in her youth, full of vitality and at the beginning of her life.
"How many years have you not been on the swing?"
"About two years. Uncle, how long have you been?"
"Well... it's been forty years"
"Forty years, that's awesome"
"When my daughter was in elementary school, it had already been forty years, and it was only such a short period of time."
"It was a long time, too long"
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"Yeah, maybe." The biggest charm of this movie is that it uses a leisurely tone to freeze the absurdity and weirdness of youth in one shot, sometimes funny, Sometimes moved, sometimes melancholy. A simple, tiny, misunderstood "murder incident" reflects the delicate emotions and colorful inner world of a young girl, and promotes the in-depth development of the storyline. It is not easy for the film to depict a trivial event in such a grand and dramatic way. The implicit expression of friendship, love, family and other emotions in the movie gives the audience more emotional space to recall the encounters, companionship and madness in their youth.
? The plot that impressed me most was the protagonist’s running and their ballet under the night sky. The running characters under the collision of light and shadow make the audience feel the vitality and tension of youth, intertwined with the beautiful music, reminding people of the best wishes for themselves from those who have stayed, left or disappeared in their lives.
Some people say that ballet dancers are elves on their toes. Under the night sky, with the trembling arms and raised toes of the two girls, when an elegant ballet ended perfectly, their youth was no longer a journey alone. Life is moving forward, but youth still stays in place, and we are no longer 14 years old.