However, Liu Fei's daughter-in-law Chen Jingning's film review analyzed the film from another perspective.
"After reading "Love Letters" with my husband, I couldn't help but dig out the old letters, but in the end I didn't open the letters that represented memories.
"Love Letter" is really a very, very special movie, with a quiet story and quiet scenes. But there are some scenes that seem to be thrilling and stay in my mind, unable to go away.
For example, the beautiful boy in the sun in the library, the dragonfly frozen in ice, the boy riding a bicycle with a paper bag, and the back of grandpa in the snowstorm??
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I have been liking director Li Yi’s movies for a long time, especially his love stories.
The former "If Love Is Divine Will" is now "Love Letter"!
He can always make a story that may be thin, delicately and touchingly arranged, pure and simple, without complicated stunts or bloody tremors, gorgeous scenery, those old sunshine, wind and vegetation, seem to be made with The pencil traces and records each stroke are lifelike and warm. When you stretch out your hand, it has the texture of smoothing out the curled corners of an old photo.
I must have remembered these young and youthful loves with deep and shallow handwriting in my diary. The reason why I am sentimental and moved may be because of those familiar scenes, memories, and emotions, accompanied by the dim sunshine in the library. , all reflected in front of me, everything reappeared like yesterday.
So we can’t help but ask ourselves: What does love look like in the first place?
Travel through time and space, and return to such a long and clear boyhood.
At that time, boys did not know how to say "I love you" clearly, nor did they know how to create romance by means. They would even deliberately alienate the girl they loved, play pranks on her, and leave their love in a place where no one could read it. The back of the library card for books.
Love was once embedded under the locust, willow, sycamore, and straight poplar trees. We were so young at that time, and we were shy and difficult to talk to others about our youthful concerns.
A secret love in the past of a boy was gradually unraveled through the correspondence between Lin Sui and the female Chen Bing, and the truth came to light. For several people involved, it was like digging for treasure. Suddenly, they discovered that there was such a tortuous and tortuous mind in the depths of time. No matter what, it is like a cool spring water that slowly seeps out and flows quietly deep. It is an afterthought that can make people's hearts soft and clear.
In fact, although "Love Letter" tells someone else's story, it allows each of us to see our own memories and youth.
As the female Chen Bing said, thinking about what happened back then is a lot of trouble. The booing from classmates caused by the same name and the work schedules are all trivial things in the eyes of adults, but they are very troublesome in the eyes of adolescent boys and girls, and they feel that they are an interference to their normal lives. .
This disgust was externalized in the fight between the male Chen Bing and the class committee, and in the vase that the female Chen Bing broke with force. They are eager to be freed from this trouble, and even in this mood of anticipating relief, they ignore many emotions that should be felt.
And when we grow up and look back on the past, we often feel that adolescence was so beautiful and all good things. In fact, this is not the case, but our memories have choices.
The regrets left by youth can never be made up for.
I have to say that everyone in the entire film left a very deep impression on people.
Lin Sui has always been a kind girl, with a calm smile and wearing plain clothes. He was too gentle to refuse Qiu Shu's proposal. Send medicine to Chen Bing and tell her to get better from her cold soon.
However, deep in her heart she hid the deep pain caused by Chen Bing's death.
Lin Sui has a deep love for her fiancé Chen Bing, which is why she still can't let go of him many years after his death. It is this feeling that prevents her from accepting the love Akiyama gave her. She secretly copied the address from Chen Bing's graduation book and wrote the letter. She was not a rational person, but she would rather stubbornly believe that the letter was really sent to heaven, to Chen Bing.
The only time she gets angry with Akiyama in the film is actually not only because Akiyama's reckless letter sent him a conflict, but more importantly, a real copy of his ID card broke the illusion of her remaining love.
Chen Bing's reply made her project her deep love into the pursuit of her fiancé's boyhood. She hoped to know his past life, see the road he had traveled, and hear his past stories. But when she walked into Chen Bing's memories of her fiancé little by little, she discovered the hidden love between them.
This emotion may not have even been noticed by themselves, but it made Lin Sui fall into deep confusion. This confusion became unsolvable because no one answered it. She didn't know whether the love at first sight she had always believed in was just because she was someone's illusion, and whether the love she had always relied on to survive and rely on was just a substitute's performance.
The man has passed away, and her doubts are not a struggle for some benefit or someone in life, but just a doubt and pursuit of the happiness that she has always believed in. These things that may seem meaningless to others are crucial to Lin Sui.
When she fully reviewed Chen Bing's memory, she met Chen Bing's climbing friends, faced the snow-capped mountain where her lover was buried, and shouted out "How are you" over and over again in the early morning? When I was well, I think she was truly freed from death, from doubt.
And the life after that should be more beautiful.
Compared with Lin Sui, although they have the same face, in fact, it is difficult for people to confuse the female Chen Bing with Lin Sui.
Because they are two completely different people. Apart from looking the same, they actually don't have much in common.
The female Chen Bing chose to work in the library. Is this related to her experience as a library committee member?
The library is the best place for memories, but her memories are inspired little by little. Her memory of him has long been forgotten, and needs to be slowly touched as time goes by, leading to an unexpected ending.
Back then, she was a quiet and studious girl. Because he was afraid of the gossip among his classmates, he chose to meet the male Chen Bing in the bicycle shed after school. When she dragged the girl Fang Xiao to the male Chen Bing, I believe she was jealous and dissatisfied. When she heard that the male Chen Bing rejected her, she might also be secretly happy.
It's not that she doesn't care about the man Chen Bing. It's not that it's entirely because of the trouble caused by the same name as she wrote. It's just that she thinks it's her wishful secret love and refuses to admit it. However, the memory is always there, and when written down, it will continue to last forever.
The snowflakes and cherry blossoms falling all over the sky contain a message of death. Her father died of pneumonia and her boy died in a mountain disaster. Two people took away the love for her.
When she was a middle school girl, skiing without joy, she saw a dragonfly frozen to death in the ice and snow. She leaned down and knew sadly, "Daddy is dead." When she grew up and looked for traces of the boy's past, she unexpectedly learned from the teacher that the boy died in a mountain disaster a few years ago. The joy of pursuing the past turned gloomy. At this time, she did not know the boy's love for her.
But love remains forever, until it extends to a girl who looks just like her. At the end, she was finally relieved in tears, and that exquisite pencil sketch gave her young story the best ending. There are no regrets in my heart, but I know that after all, everything cannot be recovered, and when I know that my love back then was reciprocated, I feel a little comfort in my heart. So she wrote this "good thing" to Lin Sui in a happy tone. She sat there with a smile watching her grandfather busy in the garden. The sun was warm and winter was finally over.
And the feelings of youth, although cruel, also gave the female Chen Bing warmth and tenacity. I think she will never forget it. "
