The first time I was attracted by a film that didn't win by plot, I watched The Essence of Little 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 film? It is neither a drama nor a pure documentary. I regard it as an idyllic film with a central figure between food and scenery.
I'm not going to discuss the external style of the film here. The content of the film 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 delicious food, it's not boring at all after watching the film for more than two hours. On the contrary, it feels interesting, feast your eyes and deserve high marks.
Most of the films are strung together by the voice-over of the heroine Shizi played by Hashimoto Ai, but they are by no means abrupt and redundant, full of meaning:
At this time, the screen presents an imaginary swimming picture, which is simply surreal.
There are also voiceovers that are very interesting:
If the air is not ventilated, the 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 leave it for more than two hours. If it is not left for a long time, it is impossible to make a tough dough.
There is a saying in the film by Shizi, which is meaningful:-Although such cold weather is a headache, some foods can only be cooked when it is cold, and cold is also one of the important seasonings.
It's a ten-minute bike ride to the rented field in my house. It's rainy and cold in this year's flower season. I'm worried that I'll go to the field every day to have a look and pull out the grass. The rice will grow up slowly listening to people's footsteps.
It is indeed a documentary worthy of quiet taste, which makes people look forward to the day of returning to nature in the film.
"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. The green invaders, fields and roads were covered with weeds."
At this time, plants grow on the back of the heroine's hand in an instant, and the whole process from germination to foliage is completed in 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 the vegetables fried by my mother are more delicious than their 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. Looking back, didn't we grow up in ignorance and become estranged from our closest family members because of self-righteous selfishness?
In general, the film uses the memories of the city children to string together the rural life all year round, and the farm work such as weeding and plowing by the woman owner in the field surrounded by green gives the audience a particularly beautiful visual impact, which is different from the scene of dry farm work generally depicted in the ordinary impression: rough calluses, a weather-beaten face, hard work and hard work, and it makes you feel compassion and even fear of farm work.
In this film, the city children with white skin and bright water are engaged in farming, with quick hands and feet, full of vitality, releasing healthy energy beauty, and chewing self-sufficient natural food after work, which is full of flavor, so they are yearning for this lifestyle of sweating and eating their own food.
In fact, this is exactly what the film's beautification photography wants to achieve. The film deliberately selects rich and fertile areas suitable for high-yield cultivation, and only shoots scenes. The films that reflect the poor life in rural areas before will choose poor villages that are isolated and backward with inconvenient transportation, and the products are not rich, even the water and electricity supply is difficult. Choosing such an angle presents rural life with different themes and different expression methods.
Therefore, even if you know that you really went down to the fields to collect seeds and harvest for a day, you are equally tired and collapsed into a dead dog, but what the film really brings you is the poetic beauty of field farming, extraordinary, and different artistic techniques give people different artistic feelings.
This is also an immature understanding.
In this way, this film brings you super beautiful visual enjoyment. Almost every picture is beautiful and worth collecting. In addition, this documentary also teaches you to slowly realize and feel a serious and meticulous life in your daily life: after weeding like a sauna, drinking a cup of homemade rice wine is sweet and smooth, and basically won't be left.
Holding a bottle full of jam made by hand, 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 rich and a little astringent and sour.
Eat the dried bread, wrap it in the jam of the new work, and listen to her real chewing sound. The dried bread is just baked. When you take a bite, it is particularly crisp and attractive to hear that sound. It is almost immersive. It must be wonderful to see her smiling uncontrollably while tasting delicious food.
I am particularly intoxicated with the natural artistic conception in the film. People enjoy their daily life comfortably, live a simple and leisurely life, and don't indulge in such a slow life. The most important thing is that the audience can't wait to say goodbye to the vanity and impetuousness after watching it.
At the same time, I also realized how retrogressive the fierce fighting in the increasingly cold real society is, which makes people miss many wonderful interests in nature that are more worthy of your attention and pondering, and ignores many beautiful scenery that makes people linger.
However, there are still many people who stop in the hustle and bustle, intrigue, and try their best to get lost.
Shizi and Yutai (played by Takahiro Miura) are enjoying the salt-baked trout cooked by themselves after a day's work in the wild camp. They are so mouth-watering that they really want to eat it.
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 a lot of scenes in the film that are memorable.
The hostess was sawing wood, and her good friends and neighbors shared the sugar boiled chestnuts 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 it up, she said to the saw very seriously: Thank you for your hard work today.
This kind of person who can respect and treat ordinary things in life with heart will definitely not be mistreated by life. In fact, people use things to create a better life. What's the reason why they 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 objects in this way.
I am deeply impressed that Japanese children, like adults, sincerely pray for the snow before digging for natto in the snow: "I hope you will become delicious." Watching Japanese movies and TV shows, it is wonderful to find that they seem to be closely related to the objects around them, the animal and plant environment, and so on. They are used to expressing their feelings to everything, conveying their hearts and exchanging energy.
Look at the scene of making glutinous rice balls with rice cakes. When you hit it, the onlookers will pray in unison: I hope you will become delicious and repay us, hit it again, and then pray in unison: to become delicious rice cakes. Very rhythmic, very ceremonial.
In fact, many Japanese cultures originated from 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 knead with their hands, and more people watch in a circle. Excitement and hot air far drove away the cold outside.
In that case, the rice cake was released from the oven, which accepted the expectations of everyone. After being hammered by the people who hit the rice cake and kneaded by the people who rubbed the rice cake ball, and the eager eyes of the children, the steaming rice cake loaded with all this was absolutely different from the ordinary food displayed on the supermarket shelves. It was cold and hard, and it was only a coin color.
The rice cakes made by the neighbors together are filled with the joy of a year's harvest, full of life energy, full of moving and unique spirits, and full of human fragrance. They must have attractive and strange magic power, satisfy your taste buds, soothe your spleen and stomach, leave fragrance in your mouth, and even make your soul comfortable to eat.
The villagers work together to lay a Ciba, and they will give it to each other for tasting, adding a taste of the New Year. If there are relatives in the city, they will be grateful to receive this homemade Ciba and give back more. 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, are young people in rural areas becoming less enthusiastic about making agricultural and sideline foods by hand, disdaining to learn, and gradually losing those skills, or are they pursuing efficiency and the increasingly rich market meeting people's consumption needs?
After seeing the woman reaping rice, she was neatly packed and stamped in rows, just like a military parade. The film wiped out the beautiful harvest of the fields. After a year of hard work, the harvested crops were like soldiers waiting for the owner to review. The owner's pride and joy were exquisitely displayed, and the beauty was shocking.
1. See this film, there will be many surprises and gains. While enjoying the visual feast, we can learn about the traditional production process of many cheap farm foods from planting to harvesting until they become delicious on the plate, such as local jam, chocolate hazelnut jam, sugar-boiled chestnut, walnut rice, glutinous rice dumplings and rice cakes.
2. Suitable for recommending to students.
For the primary and middle school students living in the city, the daily life in the country is becoming more and more distant, and Little Forest is a rare vivid teaching material for aesthetic appreciation and social practice, which is full of fun.
How do the fruits and vegetables you see every day come to your kitchen and dining table from far away? Watching this film 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 ducklings, put the ducks in the field. The ducks stagger across the ridge in a row, where they can eat weeds and insects on the ears of rice, and swim around in the rice field, which can deliver oxygen to the roots of the rice, muddy the water and block the sun, so that weeds are not easy to grow, and feces can be used as fertilizer.
This is how western ducks grow rice. It is easy to understand that Komori duck farmers don't want to kill or eat ducks very much. 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 appreciate the interesting pictures, you unconsciously know the knowledge of field farming. Instead of blunt and obscure boring reasoning, you implant the concept of agricultural knowledge into your heart, inadvertently popularize a lot of new knowledge that you have never been interested in, and discover a new world of understanding nature.
This is also my unexpected gain from watching movies.
3. Watching this film is a mirror for people crowded in the bustling city to re-examine themselves and manage their lives according to their inner feelings.
Yutai said that he didn't really learn to respect the people and parents here until he left Komori, and realized that their lifestyle could make what they said meaningful.
Shizi understands that Yutai's coming back from the city is to truly face his life, accept everything sincerely and take it seriously. If he lives in Komori, so will the older generation in Komori, so that he can enjoy life from the bottom of his heart.
City reflection "and I came back with efforts as an excuse to escape. Looking back at the previous footprints, I found that I often fell in the same place. Although I worked hard all the time, I circled in the same place. In the end, I just returned to the original point, which was very frustrating, but I also accumulated experience, so no matter whether I failed or succeeded, it was no longer the original point, but it 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 work hard again."
Shizi decided to go back to the city, because she felt unable to stand in the city before returning to Komori village. Now she finds that returning to Komori with such a negative attitude is disrespectful to Komori, and she has to face it with a positive attitude.
At the end of the film, five years later, she returned to the village with her husband in the city.
Although I turned around, I reached a new starting point.
There is also a noteworthy place in the film. There is no one using a mobile phone throughout the film, and even the postman who delivers letters often comes in and out. Those rural postal workers and villagers often talk like one of their own.
The hostess makes frozen radishes, cuts the white radishes into two parts from the middle, cuts the green radishes into pieces vertically, pokes holes in raw radishes, strings them in groups of 4 or 5, hangs them outdoors, and freezes them at low temperature, so that the dried frozen radishes can be preserved for one year.
When the postman saw it, he said that all the radishes were cooked before they were dried. That's what his wife's family did. Frozen radishes are indispensable in the stew. When there is no time to stew, it will save trouble and taste good.
This scene of dialogue, let me instantly feel the natural simplicity of rural people, and my heart is slightly shocked.
"When eating, the frozen radish is cut into triangles, boiled in water, and boiled with pickled squid soaked in rice soup. It is very tasty and delicious. It is better to add seasonal vegetables such as carrots and lotus roots. Wild vegetables and bamboo shoots are the most suitable. I am looking forward to spring while eating this dish. "
When I watched the picture, I felt that the heroine was fascinated and seemed to be waiting for an invitation with spring. Being in the cold winter, there is spring in my heart, how warm and eager I am to look forward to, enough to resist how much harsh cold.
Discover beauty from ordinary daily life, dig out the true meaning of life, and make the audience get the perception of beauty, so as to love nature and be close to life more. 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 clip quietly occasionally.
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The above is the miscellaneous notes of "Little Forest Essence Edition". And sincerely recommend this film to you.
Meet fate, thank you for reading.