Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toruko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Masao Okada.
Genre: Drama.
Production companies: Bitters End (Japan), C&i Entertainment, Culture Entertainment
Drive My Car" is two hours and fifty-nine minutes long, and the story is adapted from Haruki Murakami**'s "Men Without Women", which has won numerous awards since 2021.
The story tells an unusual love story, the male protagonist has been in love with the screenwriter's wife for many years as an excellent drama actor, but because of the unexpected death of his daughter, the relationship between the two begins to become abnormal, and the two live like a loving couple, but they behave politely and feel that they are both careful to treat the most precious person in their lives. The wife has a special Xi of creating when she is **, telling the story in her head for the male protagonist, and the male protagonist acts as the person who records it, so that it can be told to the wife who forgot the story the next morning. The wife tells the story of a girl who has a crush on a boy, but the male protagonist never knows the end of the story. One day, the male protagonist witnessed his wife's cheating, although he always knew that his wife had many lovers, but at this moment, he calmly chose to forbear, because he was afraid of revealing the truth and losing the love of his life. Soon, when the two agreed to reveal their hearts at night, his wife died unexpectedly, so that the male protagonist always regretted that the two could not confide in each other, and he had no intention of performing a drama, and then retreated to the background.
The male protagonist has always insisted on driving his little red car and listening to the script of the drama recorded by his wife for him, because this is also the last bond between the two, until a director approached the male protagonist and asked him to cast and rehearse "Uncle Vanya", that is, the drama that his wife recorded for him, his life changed: he began to slowly accept letting a young girl help him drive, interviewing drama actors from all over the world, and coincidentally, he met his wife's last lover for an interview. Through the rehearsal of the drama, the male protagonist and the actors gradually began to communicate, and came into contact with people and things other than his wife, and his incomprehension of his wife's cheating in his heart was expressed through the lines of the drama. He always wanted to know why his wife liked that young little fresh meat, but Cheng Wen's personality made him not take the initiative to ask.
Until he accidentally bumped into his wife's lover and fell in love with the actors of the crew, the male protagonist completely believed that his wife's lover was a scumbag, and he began to pay attention to this love rival, and then the two began to intersect. Finally, the male protagonist learned the truth from the mouth of the rival in love, and it turned out that the story that his wife told himself was also heard by the rival in love, and the shocking thing is that the rival in love knew the ending of the story, and the ending of the story also hinted at the truth of why the wife cheated: the wife has always loved only the male protagonist, but because of the death of the daughter, the ice between the two that cannot be broken has been generated, and the wife has become obsessed with cheating, like the girl in her story has been expecting the boy to have a crush on him to break through himself and secretly at his house** It's the same thing.,The wife is waiting for the male protagonist to expose the truth of his derailment.,Poke the ice between the two.,It's a pity that the male protagonist is reluctant to let the quarrel hurt the feelings of the two.,It has led to years of regret.。 The male protagonist who learned the truth completely let go of the mustard in his heart, and witnessed the deep love of the crew director, as well as the spiritual communication with the young female driver to make up for his longing for his daughter, and finally he was free, he said goodbye to the past, said goodbye to the little red car that had accompanied him for more than 20 years, and said goodbye to the voice of his wife who accompanied him to practice, and life began to develop in a new direction like the drama he played.
The plot is rich, the feelings are extremely delicate, and there is no overly complicated plot, but the characters are shown through intriguing dialogues and interpersonal relationships, which are also rich in suggestive information, ** literary literacy is also very high, and the screenwriter perfectly integrates the drama with life, and there is a feeling that the drama is like life.
In terms of the theme, there is a deep thinking about love: how to love a person who cannot be lost, love is a matter of two people after all, and it is good for the other party to be self-righteous, and it may also be a sharp blade for two people to have a crisis;Communication is extremely important, and the method of communication is also extremely sophisticated, which needs to be explored slowly. Be bold to love someone, exchange sincerity for sincerity, bravely accept all unreasonableness, and accept everything you love.
After watching this **, the lines are definitely a highlight, good lines are by no means a running account, but to promote the plot, interpret the characters, and also hint at the theme of the story. This does require a lot of experience accumulation, a lot of life, a lot of reading, and self-feeling, and watching a drama will be of great benefit to the line skills. At the same time, I also realized that every film and television character must have something: thought, that is, soul. A body without soul, thoughts, attitudes, and purposes is like a piece of dead wood, which cannot be accepted by the audience from the bottom of their hearts, let alone allow the audience to substitute emotions, and therefore cannot give the audience enough emotional resonance.