Belongs to the kind of person who listens to everything, but only wants to listen and not ask for depth. Therefore, the understanding of musicians is not necessarily more than that of square dance masters. Including when I saw Ryuichi Sakamoto's video "The Finale" (hereinafter referred to as "The Finale"), I only connected the Qing Dynasty drama shot by the Italians with him by virtue of the advantage of the so-called "knowing elements". I know he is a great musician, but I have already blurred the notes of oriental charm, but I can't tell you why. As for how good he is and what other achievements he has made, I have no idea. To some extent, I don't even know when he was born, and I don't know that this documentary premiered as early as 20 17.
In this snow-white background, I walked into the screening hall without interest, as if I were performing a task that no one cared about the result. It was not until the movie trend and music began that I suddenly sat up straight and began to have a superficial understanding of Ryuichi Sakamoto from outline to wisdom. This should start with the first piece of music in the film. He played a track in the "3. 1 1" Great East Japan Earthquake Victims' Shelter, which was originally heard early in the morning, and he didn't even remember whether he copied it. After leaving the cinema, I looked up the name, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence). For other Japanese musicians, such as Joe Hisaishi, I don't know who they are. I didn't really notice them until Miyazaki Hayao and Jiang Wen, but I also tasted them. This situation only changed slightly after Spirited Away was released in the mainland, and he would consciously read relevant books. This is also easy to remind people of Mr. Qian Zhongshu's wonderful metaphor about eggs.
A few days ago, two factions in the news APP were arguing about the advantages and disadvantages of Chinese and Japanese music. After watching it for a few days, everyone moved out from Miyuki Nakajima to Chinese classical music, which is barely tit for tat. From this, we can find a phenomenon. From a rational point of view, most netizens will still admit that in modern times, Japan has indeed been at the forefront of the Chinese-speaking world in music, not just pop music. With this in mind, I am more interested in this film. Unfortunately, just after the title came out, he suddenly announced that he had cancer.
Where does the title come from?
Maybe.
In the introduction of the film, it is said that this is the embodiment of work attitude. Of course, I can also raise this understanding to a higher level. Just like the education I received since I was a child, it is not too much to magnify and contrast the characters infinitely, including saying that the title of the film reflects the insight and truth of life. Only in that case, it would be too much to impose personal ideological tendencies. After all, this is still a biographical film about character sculpture, so it doesn't mean that you should be embarrassed to participate. This is just the beginning of the movie. Next, it depends on how he deals with the difficulties of life.
Since we talk about life and death, we have to face it ourselves. "(Choose active treatment) can live a few more years," he said frankly. "Otherwise it would be a pity." Before he got cancer, Ben was busy with the release of a new album, but everything was disrupted and stopped. When his physical condition permits, his thoughts, or rather, his thoughts have changed. For example, the original crazy candidates suddenly found that there was enough examination time out of thin air. He decided to remake the planned album.
Follow each other's heart
The sooner you get sick, the sooner you return. As soon as the picture changes, the wilderness is cold and the world is lonely. The soundtrack of fistful of dollars is actually him. I'm watching a Japanese man struggling with illness. The screen shows that Leonardo DiCaprio carved a declaration of revenge in a snow cave with his award-winning acting skills in the movie. However, the reality in the documentary and the plot in the drama intersect, but the music written by the Japanese binds them like shoelaces. But the tone of the camera is not sad, nor does it make people feel passive and offensive. Although the impression of Yamato nationality is always intertwined with sadness, at least I haven't noticed it in this documentary yet. Just seeing the high-definition clips of the films he participated in on the big screen is an extra gain, but I didn't expect so much, such as the work "Flying into Space" by the Soviet director who inspired him. In particular, I saw the tidbits of The Last Emperor, as if on a country road, in the open cargo compartment of a shaking truck, the film crew was wearing a China military coat and playing the piano in the wind with great interest. I don't know where the music floated in those days, but I was lucky enough to listen to it today. From 65438 to 0987, the pictures of him composing music at changchun film studio's desk, the scenes of China staff watching him audition around the piano and conducting the symphony orchestra all became historical documents and appeared on the screen in front of him.
At that time, like the pop-style portrait on the wall of his apartment now, he was a bit cynical between his eyebrows and eyes, with a bad handsome face. It took only one week to compose 45 pieces of music of the last emperor, and the film was full of envy in retrospect. But what Puyi never knew was that apart from Kwantung Army, a Japanese in the 1980s would care so much about his abdication.
The camera turns back to Ryuichi Sakamoto, and his hair is covered with silver. The facial features with increasingly sharp lines, carefully trimmed hairstyles, elegant bleaching and dyeing colors, and a sense of dress that never falls behind, all seem like an old yuppie handsome guy silently telling himself. Today, he looks a little close to Wang Xuebing, especially when she smiles. Although you get older, you can't hide your vitality that doesn't match your actual age, unlike a sick body.
Listening to the Rain, a famous work by Jie Jiang in the Song Dynasty, made a very sharp summary of the situations and interests in all stages of life. Although it is a bit painful and epiphany to read. Will Ryuichi Sakamoto and those who have been kicked out of the gate of hell see through it?
? Listen to the sound of rain in the rain
"In order not to leave regrets," he thought for a moment, and then said, "we should create more works that can be filmed."
After being ill for a year, he learned to get out of himself and began to ask for advice from the lush and humid trees. He asked the carpet lawn that an abandoned tin chimney had not been easily let go, and insects and birds would make him trance. Looking around, knocking around, just looking at the back, like a teenager. Listening to nature, I had the idea of imitating the law and picked up everything except music theory. Through magic, I tried to combine all kinds of sounds in the world, gently rubbing the porcelain pestle along the outer edge of the porcelain jar, and "sawing" a metal instrument similar to a cymbal with the bow of the cello. The sound effect is very strange, I can't say it, but fortunately there is no sound of nails scraping the blackboard. He looks drunk. Although I can't feel his priceless happiness at all, I still feel the magic of hobbies, because this expression has been seen many times on the faces of money counters.
His speech seems to be more philosophical, although I didn't hear any of his remarks or even his voice before the lights in the projection hall went out. When it comes to the "resistance" of the piano, I think it is the disobedient voice from various materials that make up the piano after yielding, not the voice from the source. It may be too abstruse, giving me a reason to take the exam.
There is a scene in the film in which he stands outdoors with a bucket above his head, seeking the ideal rain sound when contacting the medium, which is really "before any stage". The master of "stars on his temples" seems to understand the meaning of "dripping water until dawn".
Keep ringing
Is there a sound that won't disappear? Of course, it can only exist in imagination, but it cannot be said that it will not exist. People live by imagination. Just like the phrase "Because we don't know when we will die" in his favorite "Covering the Sun", looking back at the passage of life and imagining all kinds of past lives is so urgent in the documentary "Now". "Twenty years? Or 10 year, or there may be only 1 year left. " This is his guess for the rest of his life. A sense of urgency pervades.
He became an environmental fighter and made his own voice in his own way. He also made his voice on behalf of Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the father of nuclear weapons. This avant-garde musical named "Oppenheimer's Aria" keeps humming, which seems to have achieved his ideal goal of "an immortal voice". There is another sound. When he came to Fukushima nuclear leakage area again, the sharp current alarm from Geiger counter (G-M tube) * suddenly rose sharply, and it seemed that it would not stop. So, he went to the North Pole again, picking up the gurgling ice water that had not been polluted by the environment before the industrial age, and it was endless and rushing.
He also thought of 9 1 1 and even took some photos. In the picture, several birds fly over the burning Petronas Towers, and they don't know where to fly "as if nothing had happened". Another week, but this time it was seven days without any music, which was incredible for him. Seven days later, when he took to the street, the first music he heard was "Yesterday Again". In the book, Teacher Tian Yimiao tells a story about music rebuilding the soul after the disaster. In the 9 1 1 incident, a family member of the victim lost his voice after hearing the piano played by Yo-Yo Ma. He said that after listening to a piece of music, they finally released the accumulated depression and pressure.
Ryuichi Sakamoto also said that he wanted the piano sound to be "naturally tuned" to prove that there really is a sound that won't disappear, so he really found such a piano in the earthquake-stricken area. The traces of seawater immersion are firmly engraved on the piano, and the sound of tapping the keys seems to recall the tragedy that happened on the day of the earthquake. Perhaps this is also the sense of mourning in Japanese culture, which conveys and expresses an emotion through the material itself.
At the moment, the film is drawing to a close, and his understanding of life and even life has made me think deeply in this short film space. To paraphrase an outdated saying, "My thinking has just begun". Many tracks in the film, his album Async which borrowed from nature and Bach, AndreiTarkovsky's film works, the agenda of revisiting films such as The Last Emperor, Ryuichi Sakamoto's own story and the nickname "Professor" gradually attracted me. More importantly, the final sequel "Sakamoto Ryuichi: Asynchronous" was also released in advance.
? Teenagers listen to the rain and sing upstairs. Can we understand that cherishing life and its behavior itself is an endless cycle?
Or, as he said, if described in a literary way, the voice that will not disappear, "That is eternity." (General Service)
Geiger counter: an ion gas-filled tube. When DC voltage is applied to the electrode of the tube, radiation will pass through the gas in the tube and discharge will occur. (Excerpted from 360 Encyclopedia)
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Young Mermaid Listening to Rain (Song) Jie Jiang
Listening to classical music in a T-shirt? Tian Yimiao