Perceiving the Beauty of Life from Subtleties ―― Impressions of Japanese film The Exquisite Edition of Little Forest

For the first time, I was attracted by a movie that didn't win by the plot, and watched The Nature of the Small Forest. From beginning to end, it seems to be in the pastoral scenery built by the film, surrounded by various natural beauty, and the air seems to be full of mountains and forests.

The essence edition of Little Forest is the refined edition of the summer and autumn edition and the winter and spring edition of Little Forest.

How to define this movie? It is neither a drama nor a pure documentary. I regard it as an idyllic film, with the central figure between food and scenery.

The external style of the film is not discussed here. The content of the movie "Fusion" will never let you down. I came in to watch the score. Although the whole film revolves around planting, finding ingredients, cooking and enjoying food, it is not boring to watch the film for more than two hours. Instead, I find it interesting, feast my eyes and deserve high marks.

Most movies are strung together by the voice-over of the heroine Shizi, played by Hashimoto Ai, but they are by no means abrupt and redundant, and full of meaning:

At this time, an imaginary swimming picture appears on the screen, which is simply surreal.

And the voice-over is also very interesting:

If the air is not ventilated, crops will get sick, but be careful of dew.

-Knead the dough with warm water and wheat flour until it is as hard as the earlobe and let it stand for more than two hours. If you don't leave it for a long time, it is impossible to make tough dough.

In the film, the prince has a meaningful sentence:-Although such cold weather is a headache, some foods can only be cooked if they are cold, and cold is also one of the important seasonings.

It takes ten minutes by bike to get to my rented land. It is rainy and cold in the flower season this year. I'm afraid I'll go to the fields every day to have a look and pull up weeds. Rice will listen to people's footsteps and grow up slowly.

It is indeed a documentary worthy of quiet taste, which makes people look forward to the day when the film returns to nature.

"The vitality of weeds in the field is getting stronger and stronger. This mugwort was just pulled out yesterday, and the roots sprouted again, which scared me. Green invaders, fields and roads are covered with weeds. "

At this time, the plant grows on the back of the heroine's hand in an instant, and the whole process from germination to leaf growth is completed in a few seconds. The film uses this special effect language to express the inner activities of the heroine, which is very intuitive. Very happy.

My mother suddenly disappeared from home, and I haven't heard from her for a long time, which often reminds my daughter that my mother's fried dishes are better than her own, because my mother carefully removed the tendons of small vegetables, but at that time my mother often naively disliked her laziness. Seeing this, I feel that the characters in the film are close to the audience. In retrospect, didn't we also grow up in ignorance and alienate our closest family members because of self-righteous selfishness?

Generally speaking, the film uses the memories of urban children to string together the life in the countryside all year round. The farm work such as weeding and plowing by the woman in the green fields has brought a particularly beautiful visual impact to the audience, which is different from the scene of doing farm work generally depicted in the ordinary impression: rough calluses, a weather-beaten face, hard work and hard work, which makes you feel pity and even fear for farm work.

In this film, the fair-skinned urban children are engaged in farming, with quick hands and feet, full of vitality, releasing the beauty of healthy energy, chewing self-sufficient natural food after work and full of flavor, so they yearn for this sweaty and self-reliant lifestyle.

In fact, this is exactly what the beautification photography of the film wants to achieve. The film deliberately selects rich and fertile areas suitable for high-yield cultivation and only shoots scenes. Previously, films that reflected the poor life in rural areas would choose poor villages with inconvenient transportation, seclusion and backwardness, poor products and even difficult water and electricity supply. Choose such an angle to present rural life with different themes and different expressions.

Therefore, even if you know that you really went down to the field to harvest seeds for a day, you are equally tired and paralyzed into a dead dog, but what the movie really brings you is the poetic beauty of field farming, which is extraordinary, and different artistic techniques give people different artistic feelings.

This is also an immature understanding.

In this way, this movie brings you super beautiful visual enjoyment. Almost every picture is beautiful and worth collecting. In addition, this documentary also teaches you to slowly experience and feel a serious and meticulous life in your daily life: after weeding like a sauna, drink a cup of homemade rice wine, which is sweet and smooth, and there is basically no left.

Holding a bottle full of handmade jam and observing the fresh color through the glass, the city thought, "Is this my inner color now?" Picking Elaeagnus angustifolia all morning, I only got three small bottles of jam. "I couldn't wait to open a bottle the next morning, which was very rich and a little astringent.

Eat dry bread, wrap it in the jam of the new work, and listen to her real chewing sound. The dry bread has just been baked. Take a bite, and the sound is particularly crisp and attractive. It's almost immersive. It must be nice to see her smiling while tasting delicious food.

I am particularly intoxicated with the natural artistic conception in the film. People enjoy their daily life comfortably and live a simple and leisurely life. Don't indulge in such a slow life. The most important thing is that the audience can't wait to say goodbye to vanity and impetuousness after watching it.

At the same time, I also realized how retrogressive the fierce struggle in the increasingly cold real society is, which makes people miss many wonderful interests in nature that deserve your attention and deep thinking, and ignore many beautiful scenery that makes people linger.

But there are still many people who stop at the noise, intrigue and try their best to lose themselves.

Shizi and Yutai (played by Takahiro Miura) are enjoying their own salted trout after a day's work in a field camp. They are salivating and really want to eat.

The film also introduces the secret of making trout miso soup in time: it's not complicated, just cut the fish into large pieces and boil it in water, and add some miso.

There are many unforgettable scenes in this film.

The hostess is sawing wood, and her good friends and neighbors share chestnuts in sugar water with her. After everyone commented, they dispersed. The hostess carefully cleaned the dirt in the sawtooth with special tools and wiped it with a rag. After cleaning, she said to the saw seriously, thank you for your hard work today.

This kind of person who can respect and treat ordinary things in life with his heart will certainly not be mistreated by life. In fact, people use things to create a better life. Is there any reason why we can't wait for them, thank them insincerely and treat these ordinary things well?

In fact, they are also another form of partners and friends around people. It is not surprising that you will confide in your partner in this way.

I am deeply impressed that Japanese children, like adults, sincerely pray for the snow before digging natto in the snow: "I hope you will become delicious." Watching Japanese movies and TV plays, I find that they seem to be closely related to the surrounding objects, animal and plant environment and so on. They are used to expressing their feelings, transmitting their hearts and exchanging energy for everything.

Look at the scene of making glutinous rice balls with rice cakes. When hitting it, the onlookers will pray in unison: I hope you will become delicious to repay us, then hit it, and then pray in unison: become delicious rice cakes. Very rhythmic, very ceremonial.

In fact, many Japanese cultures originated in China, so many scenes look familiar. There is also a very similar scene of making rice cakes in rural areas of China. In the cold winter, some people beat hard, some people rubbed with their hands, and more people gathered in a circle to watch. Excitement and hot air drove away the cold outside.

In that case, the rice cake was baked and accepted everyone's expectations. After the hammering of the rice cake maker and the kneading of the rice cake ball, coupled with the eager eyes of the children, the steaming rice cake filled with all this is absolutely different from the ordinary food displayed on the supermarket shelves. It's cold and hard, and it's just the color of a coin.

The rice cakes made by neighbors are full of the joy of a year's harvest, the energy of life, the touching and unique spirit and the fragrance of the world. They must have attractive and peculiar magic power, satisfying your taste buds, soothing your spleen and stomach, leaving fragrance in your mouth and even making your soul comfortable to eat.

The villagers laid a Ciba together and gave it to each other to taste, adding a taste of the New Year. If you have relatives in the city, you will be very grateful and give back more when you receive this homemade Ciba. Especially in today's fast-paced society, it is regarded as a precious and rare product, far better than what can be bought everywhere in the market.

Nowadays, young people in rural areas are less and less enthusiastic about hand-made agricultural and sideline foods, disdain to learn and gradually lose those skills, or pursue efficiency, and the increasingly rich market meets people's consumption needs?

Seeing women tidy up and stamp their feet in rows after harvesting rice, just like a military parade. The film ruined the good harvest in the field. After a year of hard work, the harvested crops are like soldiers waiting for their owners to inspect. The pride and joy of the host are exquisitely displayed, and the beauty is shocking.

1. There will be many surprises and gains after watching this movie. While enjoying the visual feast, we can learn about the traditional production process of many cheap farm food from planting to harvesting until it becomes delicious on the plate, such as local jam, chocolate hazelnut sauce, chestnut in sugar water, walnut rice, glutinous rice dumplings and rice cakes.

2. Suitable for recommendation to students.

For primary and middle school students living in the city, the daily life in the countryside is getting more and more distant. The Little Forest is a rare vivid teaching material for aesthetic and social practice, which is full of interest.

How do the fruits and vegetables you see every day come to your kitchen and dining table from far away? After watching this film, I will dispel doubts to varying degrees, and know how to eat and drink, which is hard-won. Cultivate simple feelings of cherishing food, increase knowledge, broaden horizons, get close to nature, cultivate aesthetic feeling, and get spiritual nourishment from simple daily life.

For example, watch a vivid shot:

When the rice grows taller than the duckling, put the duck in the ground. Ducks stagger in rows on the ridge, where they can eat weeds and insects on the ears of rice and swim around in the rice fields, which can deliver oxygen to the roots of rice, muddy the water and block the sun, so that weeds are not easy to grow, and feces can also be used as fertilizer.

This is how ducks in the west grow rice. It is easy to understand that Komori duck farmers don't want to kill ducks or eat them. The first time I killed my own duck, I put it in a bag and walked a long way. I remember it was heavier than I thought.

When you enjoy interesting pictures, you unconsciously know the knowledge of field farming. Instead of blunt and obscure boring reasoning, you implanted the concept of agricultural knowledge into your heart, inadvertently popularized a lot of new knowledge that you were never interested in, and discovered a new world of understanding nature.

This is also my unexpected gain from watching movies.

Watching this movie is a mirror for people crowded in the bustling city to re-examine themselves and manage their lives according to their inner feelings.

Yu Tai said that it was not until he left Komori that he really learned to respect the people and parents here and realized that their lifestyle could make what they said meaningful.

Prince understands that Yutai came back from the city to truly face his life, sincerely accept everything and take it seriously. If he lives in Komori, so will the older generation of Komori, so that he can enjoy life from the heart.

Reflection on the City, and I came back with my efforts as an excuse to escape. Looking back at the previous footprints, I found that I often fell in the same place. Although I have been working hard, I am still spinning in the same place. In the end, I just returned to the original point. I was very depressed, but I also accumulated experience. Therefore, whether I fail or succeed, it is no longer the original point, but should be called a spiral. "

"The circle is getting bigger every time, so the spiral is getting bigger. I think I should go out and try again. "

Shizi decided to return to the city because she felt that she could not stand in the city before returning to Komori village. Now she finds it disrespectful to return to Komori with such a negative attitude, and she has to face it with a positive attitude.

At the end of the film, five years later, she and her husband in the city returned to the village.

Although I turned around, I reached a new starting point.

There is another noteworthy place in the film. No one uses a mobile phone in the whole movie, and even the postman who delivers letters often goes in and out. Postal workers and villagers in those rural areas often talk like their own.

The hostess made frozen radishes, cut the white radishes in half, sliced the green radishes vertically, poked holes in the raw radishes, strung them together in groups of four or five, hung them outdoors, and frozen them at low temperature, so that the dried frozen radishes can be preserved for one year.

The postman saw it and said that all the radishes were cooked before drying. This is what his wife's family did. Frozen radish is indispensable in stew. When there is no time to stew, it is convenient and delicious.

This scene of dialogue made me instantly feel the natural simplicity of rural people, and my heart was slightly shocked.

"When eating, cut the frozen radish into triangles, cook it in water, and cook it with the pickled squid soaked in rice soup. Delicious. Delicious. It is best to add carrots, lotus roots and other seasonal vegetables. Wild vegetables and bamboo shoots are the most suitable. I am looking forward to spring while eating this dish. "

When I looked at the picture, I felt that the heroine was fascinated and seemed to be waiting for an invitation with Spring. In the cold winter, there is spring in my heart. I am so warm and eager to look forward to it, enough to resist the harsh cold.

Discover beauty from ordinary daily life, dig out the true meaning of life, and let the audience get the perception of beauty, so as to love nature more and be close to life. It should be said that it should never be regarded as just an ordinary movie. In my spare time, it's not boring to relive any clips quietly once in a while.

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The above is the miscellaneous note of "Little Forest Essence Edition". And sincerely recommend this film to you.

Meet fate, thank you for reading.