The novel Flowers and Alice

The Japanese film Flowers and Alice was originally a series of short stories broadcast on the Internet. Soon after, director Shunji Iwai merged it and adapted it into a film, which lasted more than two hours. This film tells the triangle relationship between two girls who have been friends since childhood and a teenager. This theme is not new, however, director Shunji Iwai has brought his own strengths into full play, showing the inner feelings of two young girls in detail, injecting vitality into this ancient theme and showing a unique style. In addition, Flowers and Alice is also the name of a contemporary magazine.

Chinese Name: Flower and Alice

Marlboro: China

Other translations: HANA &；; Alice/Hannah versus Alice

Production area: Japan

Director: Shunji Iwai

Screenwriter: Shunji Iwai

Producer: Shunji Iwai

Starring: Anne Suzuki, Aoi sora, Sh?ko Aida, Hiroshi Abe, Ryoko Hirosue and Tomohiro Kaku.

Type: youth, love

Length: 135 minutes

Release date: March 2004 13 (Japan)

Music: Shunji Iwai

Plot introduction

Posters of Flower and Alice (6) Girls Flower and Alice are close friends who grew up together and learn ballet in a dance classroom every day. Alice is generous and outgoing, and she is proactive in pursuing love. On the other hand, flowers are naturally shy. They are always in secret love, and they can't even summon up the courage to talk to the boys they like. All their emotional activities are hidden under the ground. When she accompanied her friend Alice to chase her college boy who fell in love at first sight every day, Hua also fell in love with Miyamoto, who often walked with that boy. Soon, Hua and Alice were admitted to the long-awaited university, and Hua managed to join the crosstalk club where her beloved senior Miyamoto was located. One day, as usual, Miyamoto, who was addicted to cross talk, was walking and reading a book with a library brochure, but found one.

Accidentally bumped into an iron gate and fainted to the ground. After waking up, my brain suddenly went blank and there was a temporary "amnesia". However, the flowers that deliberately wander within the scope of Miyamoto's activities every day coincide with this scene. They are in a hurry and are not allowed to think. They told a modest and harmful lie to Miyamoto who just woke up after falling, saying, "I am your girlfriend, the girl you once pursued." From then on, the story began to unfold subtly. Miyamoto was dubious and had to start a fake relationship under the guidance of China. At the same time, the snowball of lies is getting bigger and bigger, and the situation is out of control Alice got involved in this fictional love affair and became Miyamoto's ex-girlfriend. People are worse than the sky. Hua Na once thought that the plot of this love story written by her didn't follow her arrangement. Alice, who has been playing the role of ex-girlfriend, is getting more and more involved, and she is gradually attracted by Miyamoto, who also has subtle feelings for Alice. This love triangle created by flowers is gradually getting out of her control and developing in an interesting direction.

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After making an Arita for the collection of independent short films Jam Films, two years later, a new film "Flowers" was released. This film consists of three independent and related short stories: the first one "Love of Flowers" and the second one "The Secret of Flowers" tells the love triangle story of two middle school girls, which is both cute and slightly scary through their swaying spring period.

theme

On the theme setting, this film chooses to depict the love triangle between two girls and a teenager. Flowers and Alice's stills (20) are nothing new. In many love stories in ancient and modern times, this theme has been told repeatedly and is out of date. But for Shunji Iwai, an all-round director who is good at script creation, all his works have been written and planned by himself since his debut, and the description of the story has not remained superficial and single. In his famous work Love Letter, the touching love story centered on A Letter from Heaven is still fresh in the memory of many Iwai fans. This time, with super imagination and inspiration, Shunji Iwai once again set the key words of the story on the small link of "amnesia", which made the plot unfold unexpectedly as "completely unpredictable".

Grow thin film

This is a film about growing up. The unconscious days of young girls are carefully expressed in a funny style and in a slightly mysterious way. At the same time, the nonsense plot that begins with "amnesia" is like a locomotive that has lost its brakes and runs to the end that the protagonists can't manipulate and never expect. Most importantly, these two girls are quietly completing the transition to adulthood and maturity.

Love drama

As a love drama, the uniqueness of this film lies in the fact that the fictional love story fabricated by the girl flower itself was branded as a rest from the beginning-the lie will be exposed at any time, love will go as easily as it came, and the frivolous spirit will come to an abrupt end at any time. The love experience of adolescence often does not last forever, and the boys and girls involved in the vortex of the story experience profound beauty in the chaos.

Meticulous and Aesthetic Shunji Iwai Films

Shunji Iwai's film style has always tended to be meticulous and aesthetic. From Love Letter to April Story to Everything in Zhou Lili, the delicate and pure images conveyed by the characters on the stage can touch the most delicate heartstrings in the viewer's heart. This time, in Flowers and Alice, the light and gentle image seems to grasp the petals in the girl's heart and pat them on her heart. The most impressive photos of a break are flowers and Alice in the rain. The rain soaked the top of the head, the girl's uniform hair and eyes, and the girl's budding infatuation.

Actors and producers

Anne Suzuki and Aoi sora, beautiful new girls about the same age as the characters in the play, play the leading roles in the play. Their pure and beautiful appearance and true colors ensure the original freshness of this film "Youth Love". What's more worth mentioning is that this musical work is completely produced by director Shunji Iwai himself and composed by computer. Iwai has been continuing his film lineage and constantly refreshing his own records.

An interview with the editor and director.

Shunji Iwai was born in 1963. I fell in love with movies when I was a student. After graduating from college, he has been engaged in shooting TV series, MTV and commercials, and his works have also won awards. I am known as the newest and most potential "video writer". 1993 filmed the TV short film Fireworks, and the Japan Film Directors Association awarded him the annual newcomer award for the first time. The TV series "Bundle of Love" was made into a film by the production company because of its outstanding achievements. During the period of 1994, Iwai produced the first feature film "Love Letter", which received rave reviews and established his position as the "flag bearer of Japanese new movies". Later, Dreamwalker won the news inspector award at the Berlin Film Festival. 1996, Iwai made a stunning swallowtail butterfly. 1998 directed the story of April, and in 200012000, Everything in Lily Week focused on Japanese teenagers, involving juvenile crimes such as aid exchange, which attracted Japan's attention. On March 13, Shunji Iwai's latest masterpiece Flowers and Alice will be fully released in Japan. Iwai said in an interview at the new film release conference that although the structure of this campus youth film is still chaotic, it has left the consistent sadness in his film and become a brisk and smooth comedy ... "Recalling the student days, new inspirations will continue to appear. In fact, I think I am better at light drama than serious drama, so I have always wanted to do something close to comedy. As a result, the structure of this work becomes chaotic, and the protagonists Hua and Alice still fail to be the good children they imagined. It is a movie that gives people a feeling of being particularly like a wild girl. " "I always thought that if I didn't find something new about myself, I couldn't start making new movies. So this time it will also be a brand-new work. Perhaps closer to love letters and fireworks in tendency. This time, I decided to make a comedy in my mind. When writing a script, these two words always hover in my mind. "

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There are too many problems in the ending of Flowers and Alice. Are the flowers and Miyamoto together? Does Miyamoto like flowers or Alice? Are there any other developments in the story? Finally, is it really over? ..... Maybe I can't find the answer, but I want to know the answer. Who did Miyamoto finally love? Is it flowers or Alice? Compared with Alice, flowers are not beautiful enough and have a bad personality. It's a completely incomparable type. As long as boys are attracted to Alice, Hua is not as clever as her. In front of Miyamoto, Hua will always be silly. Miyamoto's secret love for Alice may be temporary, but it will be remembered forever. But the flowers are different. Her persistence slowly touched Miyamoto until she fell in love. Miyamoto finally admitted that he likes flowers. Alice is like the first love, a memory that people can cherish forever, the last love, and the true love that can be together for life.

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Some people say that in fact, creation is nothing more than a balance of nutrition, and movies are nothing more than a lack of something. When love is gone, all people want to keep it, or those who have tasted the sweetness of love want to tell the latecomers what the original ecology of love is. So watching romantic movies has become a yearning for love fantasy and a memory of love depravity. Alice and the hero

In fact, I can't tell what kind of person Shunji Iwai is, and I can't tell what kind of gratitude he uses to express his love, if the theme he has been writing is about love. But the audience can vaguely guess his intentions through image sharing. Once, everyone looked forward to this Hannah and Alice with great enthusiasm. I have seen its poster-two girls standing side by side, with empty eyes and full bodies, like two small animals. Shunji Iwai should be the only one who can make people look like animals. Because the camera he controls records all the children-children waiting to grow up, grow up or just grow up. No director insists on such a "hobby" like him. They are all lost in cruel youth, lost in exploring love, communication and their own confusion, at a loss but "aggressive" From love letters to swallowtail butterflies to this flower and Alice, there is no exception. Children practice the director's strategy like animals. ...

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Album introduction

Hua and Alice are two girls and inseparable friends. They practice ballet together. Yasushi Miyamoto is a teenager, holding Buddhist scriptures in his hand all day, a seemingly fragile child. Delicate teenager, good-looking side face. At the station where he can always be seen, his figure has become the object of girls' camera pursuit. Is this out of love? Maybe, it's nothing. In Iwai's lens language, this is a beautiful feeling of youth. Everything is so beautiful. When you see a greenhouse surrounded by all kinds of flowers, everything is so beautiful. When you see two girls bathing together in sakura rain, everything is so beautiful. When you see a girl's slender and powerful legs show a graceful ballet posture. Really, everything is so beautiful. Hua has been silently watching her Miyamoto predecessors. By chance, she told him a big lie about love. The story of three people unfolds in this lie. Teenagers are always soft and gentle, and seem unwilling to struggle too much with reality, but only vaguely accept a girl's easy deception. You once made love to me, have you forgotten? We are lovers, remember? Have you forgotten my name, too Then you must have amnesia. An imaginary amnesia, an imaginary love, just broke into the life of the teenager, and the poor teenager is still trying to remind himself of that imaginary memory. His eyes are always so blank that he can't see the world clearly. And the photo of himself that he stumbled across on the computer in China-which he thought was the key to solving the mystery-became the beginning of another bigger lie. Alice was also invited in. For the sake of friendship with China, she seems to spare no effort to exert her imagination and play Miyamoto's ex-girlfriend. Do you remember? This is the place where we first dated; Under this big tree, where we kissed for the first time, it was raining like that day! Do you remember? Do you remember? Do you remember? Alice was so persuasive and eloquent that she stirred up ripples in the young man's heart. I seem to remember! But why did we break up? How did I fall in love with flowers? What if the memory is half restored? Poor boy, what he said made me feel bad. He fell in love with Alice, but Alice said you should like flowers. Yes, what should love be? The story happened among three people. A simple love triangle story, not every director dares to try. Because if you are not careful, you will be defeated. Only Shunji Iwai has this ability. In the lens of Iwai, everything becomes extremely beautiful. When you are in it, it seems that you can temporarily forget the noise of the world and experience a real light cloud. Friendship, affection, love, life, study, work, all things are what you see every day, so real, but so real and moving. Perhaps Shunji Iwai has more eyes for finding beauty than we do, which makes his films so touching. A story about two girls, the film unfolds like a breeze blowing through the pages, every frame is full of warmth, and every page of the story is touching. In Shunji Iwai's eyes, youth is not so crazy and passionate, nor so dark and cruel. Youth is also a natural life, with budding, shyness, lies and true feelings. Youth is still a rhythm of life, hidden in a girl's body and spent with Alice.

When she danced lightly, I believe everyone saw her.

Album track

0 1. Blooming season 02. Hana & Alice/Sakura 03. Fish in the pond. Dear 05. Amnesia 06. Slug terror 07. Round dance 08. I love Nee 09. Sweetheart/secret meeting 10. Dancing in the rain 1 1. Asiana's season/ocean 12. Hana's thoughts 13. Vojinj/Arabic (I love you) 14. HANA & Alice Note: The introduction resources are all from VeryCD.

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Basic information

Editor: hansey editor-in-chief market price:? 25.00 Publishing House: Shanghai People's Publishing House Page: 192 Publication Date: 2009 ISBN: 16745957 Barcode: 977 1674595093.

Version: 1 version binding: paperback format: 16 Chinese: Chinese

brief Introduction of the content

Since its publication in September 2007, Alice has been sought after by readers for its unique design style. In April 2009, Alice was officially upgraded to a periodical, and its content was also fully upgraded. In addition to retaining the original readers' favorite theme graphic creation, it also includes various columns: introducing movies, books, tarot cards, the creators' living conditions and so on. Special topics on deep figures of international masters; Frontier interviews with young new forces; And the inventory topic of cultural hot events ... Alice's first issue? The theme of unicorns has different meanings: "unicorns may be hunted or abused because of their talents or characteristics;" Perhaps simple people suffer from credulity; Maybe the girl who looks beautiful and pure on the surface is actually the bait for hunting, or she is a hunter herself ... "Xia, Zhen Sheng, Cao Xiaoyou and other graphic authors combined with the theme exhibition to create wonderful works and deconstruct and explain. In the same period, there was an in-depth topic of famous Japanese photographer Mika Ninagawa; Lin's latest prose. The special part also has the first-hand information disclosure about the most anticipated cross-border cooperation between Anne Baby, Yan Yue and hansey 2009. As well as the exclusive background story of the mystery novel Gaudi Code, which sells well in Europe, America and Taiwan Province Province.

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Known as "the most beautiful magazine book", Flowers and Alice, since its revision in April 2009, has revealed a completely different vision from other China youth magazines focusing on entertainment, and it is a foregone conclusion to lead the international trend of high-end reading for domestic teenagers. Every issue of Flowers and Alice magazine introduces a world-class creator to young readers in China, such as Japanese photographers Mika Ninagawa, Noda, Gregory Cobot, and Jed Y. Chen. The theme of the August issue of Flowers and Alice is "Dust", and neil gaiman's novel Stardust has been adapted into a movie of the same name, which coincides with this theme.

Editor's recommendation

Alice, who was fully upgraded, made a wonderful appearance in April. * * * edited by hansey, the best young designer in China, upgraded in 2009. * * * * * * The top new generation graphic creation magazine with unique design quality * * * * leads the creation concept of similar books, and its column structure is unique and novel. * * * * * The horizontal connection of international culture runs through different times vertically.

Edit this passage "Flowers and Alice" No.7.

Basic information

Author: editor-in-chief Shi

[1] Publication date: 2009-1 0/Version:1Pages: 19 1 Printing date: 2009-10/kl.