The protagonist of Midnight Food Store is Kobayashi Kaoru, an introverted, clean and tolerant Japanese middle-aged man. Japanese people pay attention to the details of things, especially movies: scenery, characters, plot and lines take a lot of thought. I like to use the word tenderness to describe one thing: coming just right and leaving quietly. Midnight grocery stores open in the middle of the night when eat drink man woman needs comfort most, and close when food and wine are full. The boss quietly observes other people's lives in the crowd, seemingly not interfering in anyone's life, but actually takes care of many things very delicately.
When the owner's urn was gone, he went to store it and took it back and put it at home to burn incense every day. Although I don't know who is inside, every soul deserves to be treated gently. As a small shopkeeper, he buys food, cooks, opens doors and closes doors day after day, and everything goes smoothly and naturally. Even if he encounters some difficult situations, he tries to be considerate. The food in the midnight grocery store satisfied eat drink man woman's appetite and made them more confident to devote themselves to the next day's work. The women in the film have rich mistresses, white-collar workers who have been abandoned as volunteers because of cheating, country girls who have run away from their boyfriends, smart and kind restaurant proprietress, and little sisters who wait for the takeaway police every day. As an audience, we have seen women's choices and their lives. We have no reason to evaluate whose life is more reasonable, and there is no reason to substitute the plot to point fingers.
I especially like one paragraph: a diner tells his boss that the cherry blossoms are in bloom. Narrow streets can't hide the tentacles of spring, and no matter how hard life is, we should thank the gift of nature. The boss went shopping by bike alone, and then he became two people. The girl ran after the boss, and then the girl rode to sell vegetables: onions, mushrooms, vegetables, full of fireworks. The boss took the helpless girl in and went out for the night. The proprietress of the hotel continued to take the girl in and watched her grow up slowly and quietly. This style of painting has no atmosphere of rendering at all. They all showed their kindness and personality quietly. Girls buy wind chimes, knit aprons and fry eggs, without the anxiety and anxiety caused by poverty. I often wonder how the director of China will show this plot. Throughout China's films, it is impossible for you to make this style of painting, let alone artistic conception. This kind of film can heal the soul, but the plot of gentle swallowing goes deep into the soul.
I hope you can watch the movie version of Midnight Food Store. Maybe we can talk about movies. I read a sentence a long time ago: living deeply in a fickle world, for us, living to this age is worthy of food and beautiful scenery. If we don't have time to experience the fireworks, it's good to watch movies. Haha, what did you gain today? Write it down gently and tell yourself: Come on!