Love Like A Bouquet: A Romantic Time Limit

By Hong Xiaowen

After the fire of the TV series Quartet, four years later, director Yutai Tui and screenwriter Takeo sakara jointly presented a well-known work "love like a bouquet".

Love like a bouquet

The heroine baguzhen is a "Ramen blogger" who likes to visit all kinds of ramen shops and write down the evaluation experience; She was the most out of place classmate at KTV parties, but would drop her breakfast in excitement at the opening of the mummy show at the National Museum. Shanyinmai, the hero, is a young illustrator and a lover of iron products. He often sits on the roadside with an old typewriter to watch people coming and going. He lives in a small apartment of 50000 yen a month. The most exciting thing in his 21 years of life is to find his photo accidentally appearing in the panoramic mode of navigation software. They are two ordinary and ordinary college students, happily immersed in the world of literature and art.

Because they also missed the last tram to the bus stop in Tokyo, they met by chance. They soon found that each other seemed to be another self in the world: they all missed the same exhibition, liked the same writers, pursued the same comic strips, liked the same band, wore the same white canvas shoes, carried the same logo canvas bag, liked to use movie tickets as bookmarks, and always had a pair of the same knotting earphones in the backpack, Even the books on the shelves at home are very similar. Therefore, love began to be natural, the first time to see the rhythm of the heart. They give each other the tacit understanding of the same gift, the weather fine afternoon nestles on the balcony, feeling the passage of time, just like a bundle of flowers, full of vitality. Two people who look like Lily lining meet and fall in love. The beginning of this relationship is as romantic as a fairy tale.

However, just as all fresh cut flowers have a limited flowering period, blooming also means going to wither. With the arrival of graduation, the young couple are faced with social challenges. Shanyinmai, who dreams of becoming a freelancer full-time illustrator, finds that the number of design orders received is less and less, and the unit price is also getting lower and lower. Under the pressure of life, she can only give up painting, cut off romantic curly hair, put on a suit, pick up a briefcase and find a "down-to-earth job". After many failures, shanyinmai was finally employed by a small logistics enterprise. Because of this, he cherished the position and devoted himself to his work to gain a sense of achievement in his career.

Like a magic spell, shanyinmai's success in business was just the beginning of his separation from baguzui. His brushes and drawings have long been put on the shelf, and his business trips have replaced their stage play dates. Although she still retains her past love after working, she gradually finds that she and she once cried for the serial cartoon "golden power" together in the quilt. Later, she is the only one who still remembers the updated plot; When she was sad about the closing of the bakery in Mucun, shanyinmai was worried about the company's goods; When she shared her newly published literature with her boyfriend, she found that he was more interested in "the odds of success."; When she happily told her boyfriend that she had decided to reduce her salary and go to the dream Planning Society, she was poured cold water on her. It's no wonder that shanyinmai felt that they were two people, one of whom stayed in the school days, and the other entered the society. Their happiness is no longer similar, their troubles are no longer the same, their sorrows are no longer empathetic, and even the rhythm of life is no longer synchronized. The demise of a romantic love is made up of many such moments.

In fact, the film explores a rather old philosophical proposition: ideal and reality, love and marriage, which are also real problems faced by many young lovers. However, even with realistic themes, the film is still full of romanticism. Sakanyuan Yuer, who wrote the script of "Tokyo love story", is especially good at depicting trivial daily life. He designed a large number of prose poetic monologues for the protagonists and heroines to express their emotional changes through the transformation of narrative perspectives of baguzi and shanyinmai. Miss the last bus rain night, the first stay in Shan yinmai's home Bagu silk looked at the rain outside the window and thought: "the rain is dark yellow street lamp cut into a section, and my heart has covered the sound of the hair dryer." The picture of the film is clean and fresh, and there is still warmth in the light sadness of the romantic disappearance. There is no suspicion and jealousy in the love which has lasted for four years. There are no jumping and hysterical disputes, and there is no so-called family interference. Both of them are living with their own positive ways. Even when they say goodbye, they still have a tacit understanding.

At the end of the story, 26 year old shanyinmai and baguzhen encounter each other in the restaurant. They lead each other to the opposite direction, and do not turn back and wave goodbye. This is a dialogue between romantics and realists. Since ancient times, there has been no standard answer. The film maintains considerable restraint in the emotional grasp, but sad but not deliberately sensational. They leave the past respectably, separate, move, meet new people and meet again.

"The beginning is the beginning of the end. Meeting is always accompanied by parting." The flowering period is limited, and romance also has a taste period.