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Monodo-kun:
Summer doesn't need to be deep, summer just needs to be felt.
Tomorrow is the beginning of autumn, and this summer, it seems that it has come to an end unconsciously.
Maybe it's because there is too much rain and too few sunny days, and there is less time for us to savor it, so when we come back to our senses, it's already time to say goodbye.
Summer is always precious. Because you don't have to hurt, you don't have to be sad, you don't need to be profound, you just need to feel, make trouble, and laugh in summer.
Energetically venting his emotions and desires at the moment, just like the post-90s writer Zhang Haochen said: "Summer is to make yourself happy, otherwise I will be sorry for sweating every time." ”
Today is August 6, 2024, and it also happens to be an annual international film festival.
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China
Speaking of "Green Snake", this is definitely a classic that can represent the aesthetics of Chinese films.
Bamboo forest, lotus pond, oil-paper umbrella, light rain and mist, night banquet singing and dancing, hazy and changeable light and shadow, soft and flowing clothes, eyes that seem to be restless, slightly wet hair..... It is both subtle and unrestrained, romantic and classical.
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The plot of the movie is adapted from the well-known "The Legend of the White Snake":
The two blue and white snakes have become adults and yearn for love in the world, so they entered the world. When playing the world, the white snake fell in love with the nerd Xu Xian at first sight, so he cast a spell to fall in the rain, met in the West Lake, and started a love relationship by borrowing an umbrella.
And in Tsui Hark's films, you will feel how fitting it is to set the story in the summer:
As soon as Ganjun looked back, he fell in love, married him, had children, and begged for medicine and saved his life. If you want to do it, you do it immediately, if you want to love, you love unbridledly, anyway, in the summer, everything is reasonable with hormones driven. Even if the result is suppressed under the tower, there is no light of day.
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If you want to ask the White Snake, does she repent? Presumably she has no regrets. Because if you want to cultivate as an adult, you must know how to desire, and human beings are the embodiment of desire! It's good to be happy, it's good to have fun, "do happy things with lovers, don't ask if it's a disaster or fate".
Demons want to learn to be human, but I think we should learn to be demons, not to be people in the suit, but to be like monsters, admit desires, face desires, and try to satisfy desires in the summer with the right way. Life is like this, floating like this.
"Kikujiro's Summer"
Japan
What was your favorite game in the summer of your childhood?
For the little kid Masao, that summer to find his mother, his favorite game is:
Swimming with my uncle in the swimming pool of a luxury hotel, although my uncle's lack of swimming alarmed the lifeguards in the store;
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On the big green lawn, playing a game with a kind couple, the young lady can toss five oranges with both hands, and as long as you put a coin in the palm of the little brother's hand, he will dance a super cool mechanical dance;
Break corn in the corn field, pick up lotus leaves for shade, and play gun games and catch small goldfish with the uncle in the night market;
I camped with Mr. Octopus, Mr. Alien, and Big Brother Indian, and the five of them performed magic tricks, cut watermelons, and played with 123 wooden people......
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In the Douban short review of this movie, someone said: "Summer is really a strange season, obviously what I actually experience is just a slimy stinky sweat, but I can't help but associate it with youth and the like, and then when I look back on it in seasons other than summer, I miss it very much." Every year, I have to fall into such a scam nostalgia."
Although it looks like a scam, although we are deceived on time every year, it doesn't seem to be bad, because as long as the summer is not old, childlike and happy, we can return to us on time every year.
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"Summer of Jeans"
United States
If "Kikujiro's Summer" is about the summer of men, then "Summer of Jeans" is about the summer of girls.
The four girls, who grew up together, will face their first separation in the summer of the year of 16. It was at this time that they bought a pair of jeans that could be worn by four people with very different body types. So they decided to take turns sharing the pants this summer, and when they sent them to the next person, they shared their summer experiences with each other.
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Returning to her hometown in Greece, Lena unfortunately fell into the sea and met Casto, a handsome young man who saved her.....
Tibi, who loves to make documentaries, works in a supermarket and hopes to use the salary she earns to buy a new device, but she meets a little girl Bailey, who is a big ghost, and instead of pestering her to give her a hand, Tibi is annoyed, but unintentionally discovers that the child is dying;
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Carmen, whose parents divorced since childhood, is finally going to spend the summer vacation with her father, but her father is about to get married, and treats his new pair of children as his own, and he is out of place like an outsider....
And Briggie, who participated in the football training camp, fell in love with the handsome soccer coach at first sight and tried to seduce him in various ways, but the other party was afraid of her age and was unmoved, Briggie was very distressed, and wanted to talk to someone but remembered that her mother was no longer there.
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They look forward to this summer, jeans can bring them good luck and miracles, but in ordinary life, there are not so many miracles, some are just the youth, ignorance, longing, pain and confusion that belong to this age.
But in any case, even if the pain is long, as long as you are brave enough to walk through it, you will grow. Because "happiness does not mean that everything is perfect, happiness may be remembering the little things that add up to our failures, and all we can do is live well." ”
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"Summer Whispers"
Ireland
Summer is noisy, but it can also be quiet.
Like Kate, a nine-year-old girl, she doesn't like to talk and always likes to hide herself, probably because when she does this, she can avoid facing the quarrels of her parents, the indifference of her sisters, and the ridicule of her classmates.
Until her mother was about to give birth, her father wanted to send her to her aunt's house for the summer vacation. Kate can only accept it in silence, cramped and uneasy in silence, disappointed and sad in silence.
However, her aunt Irene was very kind to her, she would crouch down to talk to her, would patiently ask her how she felt, bathe her carefully and smile with a smile in her eyes, and seemed to be a very happy thing to serve her.
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The unfamiliar place made Kate uncomfortable, she wet the bed on the first day she came, and when Irene checked the bed in the early morning, she found out about it, Kate kept hanging her head and looked out the window and did not dare to make a sound, quietly waiting for the upcoming reprimand.
But Erin only glanced at it and said, "Behold, these old mattresses are always crying, and what do I think of letting you sleep on them!" Kate was shocked that she hadn't been scolded.
This is the first time that Kate has felt the love and warmth from adults this summer.
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In the days that followed, her uncle-in-law, Jon, who had been estranged from her, began to show kindness to her: taking her for a run, cleaning the farm together, going to town to buy new clothes, and enjoying dessert in the afternoon.....
Originally sensitive and timid, she seems to have gradually become determined, confident and strong in this summer full of warmth, tolerance and love. The dappled and bright summer sun finally pried open her closed heart and shone into her heart.
You see, love really makes people grow new flesh and blood. And the children who have been illuminated by this summer can finally run in the wind by themselves.
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"Holiday After the Sun"
Scotland
When our parents take us on a trip, we are always happy when we are young. But, are parents happy?
The Scottish female director asks us this question in the film.
When Sophie was 11 years old, she traveled to Turkey with her divorced father during the summer vacation, and they took a tour bus, swam together, played billiards, lay on the beach and watched parachutes, chatted, ate snacks, and went diving in the sea.
In her eyes at that time, her father was not only a father, but also a friend. You can play together, say witty things, and answer your own confusion about the adult world, although there are some answers that your 11-year-old self may not understand. But it was still a beautiful, lively, and happy summer vacation.
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And when I grew up to my father's age, I suddenly looked back and found my unfamiliar father again, which I didn't understand back then:
The hotel front desk made a mistake in the room, and her father whispered to the front desk after she fell asleep, asking for another bed in the room, and apologized to himself after waking up, because the construction team next to the hotel was too noisy, and what he didn't say was that the reason for all this was his financial constraints;
When eating in the hotel, I saw adults disciplining children, and the children couldn't break free and were dragged away by adults, so I returned to the room and began to teach myself self-defense skills.
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What was he thinking when everyone had a quarrel and my father walked alone to the deep sea in the middle of the night?
When we asked him, "What did you do on your eleventh birthday?" What was he thinking about when he replied, "No one remembers that it was my birthday?"
It turns out that this "perfect holiday" that guards the secrets of adults and does their best to hold it up is so hard.
Maybe life is like this, everyone's feelings are difficult to be shared and understood in the same time and space, in the same time period, but it doesn't matter, "it's good that we can share the same sky", "although we are not in the same place, and we are not really together, but to some extent we are in the same time and space, we seem to be together." ”
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Yang Dechang once said: "After the invention of movies, human life has been extended by three times compared with before. ”
Maybe it's because life is limited, and if you choose some roads, you will miss the scenery on the other road. But because of the movie, we can get a glimpse of the scene on another road and explore a new kind of possibility.
Just like the summer that comes every year, just like each country has its own and different summer, even if you can't get there, you can still share the same summer and extend a new summer on this side of the screen.
What other movies about summer do you like? Feel free to share with us in the comment section, and I wish us a goodbye summer!
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