Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography and portraiture - Everything about Zhou Lili.

Everything about Zhou Lili.

The theme of the film has nothing to do with love, but the difficulties suffered by a group of children in adolescence. The film style is rather dull and obscure. If you look at it as a relaxed and lively youth movie, you may be disappointed.

There is a good film review that can be used as a reference:

Some life tracks in a quiet village. They just have concerns that don't match their age. Their friendship, affection and love, like fleeting flowering period, come and go. Reality and virtuality are inevitable fate cycles. People have seven souls, and if they lose them, they will never come back. Filias met the green cat. In two worlds, in Zhou Lili's music, in the transparent ether, the end of music is eternal death. I thought this was our youth, but I saw the indelible gray. When the wheat field turns from green to yellow, and then from yellow to green, when the new season comes, will everything go back to the past, and is what Xiong Yi defends still intact?

About death

There are three important ways to die in the film: the unknown tourist on Okinawa, Tsuda, and finally Hoshino.

The death of tourists provided a reason for the sudden change of Xingye. The end of life is so simple, so what does it mean to be alive? Does it continue to hurt? If the prophecy comes true, what will happen in September that year?

The death of the green cat. Filias killed the green cat, an unexpected but unexpected ending. Filias has suffered too much in reality, those from the stars and those from life. He thinks that people who comfort him in virtual space can also comfort themselves in reality. When he saw Hoshino holding an apple symbolizing the green cat, his world began to collapse. He picked up a sharp knife, perhaps for a long time, and walked over without hesitation, facing the crowd and inserting another body of his own, a body that belongs to his dreams. Xingye fell, there was no scarlet blood, only sound spread in the ether.

Tsuda, my favorite character in the story. The girl who smiled recklessly at the kite, the girl who washed her soul in the river, the girl who observed Xiong Yi carefully and said "You protect me", the girl who trampled on money savagely, the girl who kept leaning back with her hands holding her throat, she fell down on a sunny day and her things were scattered all over the floor. Some people say that Tsuda's death is his least favorite movie, and it seems that only they are the most Japanese. It's a crazy and abnormal nation. When the cherry blossoms fall, life has no reason to exist. It is better to die. But is this really the case? Is that what Iwai wants to tell us? I thought death was just an escape, a sign of weakness. The dead made the living perfect. However, when Zhou Lili's music started, he shouted and tore his heart out. Just after the shouting, life would go on and not sink.

About music:

Takeshi Kobayashi's music and movies are perfectly combined, as if you really saw something in Zhou Lili's singing. Is it ether? Chopin and Debussy's works are also widely used in the film, but I know very little about classical music and can't tell which is Chopin and which is Debussy. Maybe my ignorance of music will affect my understanding of movies, and there is nothing I can do about it. I like Zhou Lili's music and the notes of swallowtail butterflies penetrating the soul. Zhou Lili's voice is mixed with a kind of sadness, coming at you like an avalanche. What color is ether?

About the director

Shunji Iwai, one of my favorite Japanese directors, is a director who can find the pure sky in the lens. It's just that everything from love letters to April stories, from dream travelers to swallowtail butterflies, to today's Lily Week is still pure and uncut, and it's getting more and more gray. In his world, angels have black wings, but wet wings can't fly high.