I don't quite understand what the Japanese movie "Butterflies" is about.

In the heyday of the economy, a large number of foreign immigrants poured into Japan, and they regarded Japan as a gold rush paradise, and named it "Du Yuan". But the Japanese hate this name and call these immigrants "Yuan thieves".

After her mother died, an unknown girl named "Du Yuan" was sent to the prostitute Gu Liguo. The kind-hearted Guliguo took the girl in temporarily and named her Papilio according to the butterfly tattooed on her chest.

One day, Guliguo took Papilio to a waste resettlement area and garage called "Empty". There, Butterfly met Huo, Aaron, Lang Lang and others, all of whom were "Yuan thieves" from different countries. Soon, the butterflies who often go to the "blue sky" to help became familiar with them and became bosom friends. One night, a guest of Guliguo tried to rape a butterfly. Aaron, who heard the news, accidentally killed this man. When disposing of the body, everyone was surprised to find that there was a tape hidden in the man's stomach, which recorded the American song "My Way".

Lang Lang's real identity is a killer of a secret organization. He learned through his partner Chun Mei that the person killed by Aaron was a member of the underworld Sudo, and the magnetic induction data for making counterfeit money was hidden in that tape. People use this tape to copy a lot of counterfeit money and get rich overnight. Aaron and others returned to China after making a fortune, while Hong Fei left the "blue sky" and bought a nightclub in the city, turning it into a live broadcast room dedicated to Guliguo singing. Soon, Gu Liguo signed a record company because of his excellent singing talent. Under the interference of the company, the famous solid fruit had to break off relations with these "yuan thieves"

At the same time, the owner of the tape, underworld leader Liu Liangkui, learned of the whereabouts of the tape and sent people to hunt down Gu and others. Hong Fei, who was at large, was arrested by the police for using counterfeit money and died in prison after being tortured. Guliguo was hijacked by Liu Liangkui's men and rushed to the "blue sky" to get the tape. With the help of Chun Mei, Lang Lang killed these gangsters tactfully. After a storm, people returned to the "blue sky" and bid farewell to Hong Fei in the form of cremation. Sad butterflies also burned boxes of banknotes.

Finally, Butterfly returned the tape to Liu Liangkui, who met by chance, and told him that Guliguo was his long-lost sister.

1996, Shunji Iwai, who is good at shooting low-cost short films, released the feature film Swallowtail Butterfly, which cost five million dollars after careful preparation and shooting.

In Swallowtail Butterfly, Shunji Iwai did not continue to write love fairy tales in love letters, but looked at immigrants from a girl's perspective. The main characters of the film come to Du Yuan from all corners, forget their names, and become robbers of yen and slaves of money. Shunji Iwai put forward such a sharp question in the film: For people, is money the purpose of dreams or the means to realize them? The thieves' initial dream in "Butterflies" was just to make a lot of money, but when the dream really came true, they found that it didn't seem to matter compared with the price they paid. In a sense, The Butterfly is also a fairy tale, an allegorical fairy tale about modern society. With the rapid development of economy today, Shunji Iwai warned every audience with an artist's keen sense of smell that money is not the meaning of survival.

However, those yuan thieves who look dirty in the movie have beautiful dreams and can sacrifice everything for them. This makes us see the other side of Swallowtail Butterfly: it celebrates the idealistic spirit of people sacrificing their dreams and facing death calmly.

Although "Heavy Butterflies" is full of tragic colors, we should also see the "blue sky" under the bright sunshine while we are saddened by the death of Hong Fei. At least Shunji Iwai left people a dream home there.

-transferred from Netease.

The dream in The Butterfly is humble. At first, Duyuan people's dream was to make money and then go home as a rich man. But when they arrived in Yuan, they found that it was not what they thought. In the end, their dream is just to survive in that strange land. This is actually not a dream, but an instinct. Everyone has the instinct to continue to live. In order to survive, they sold themselves into prostitutes. In order to survive, they collect rubbish in huge garbage dumps. When they learned how to turn counterfeit money into real money through that tape, the dream hidden in their hearts began to revive. They went to the city with their dreams and their lives began to change. In the house he bought, Huo vowed that he would run a live studio for Gu Liguo, not a nightclub. So they began to recruit people to form a band. This is the first time they have intervened in the city as rich people. But the more involved, the more helpless. The record company took a fancy to Guliguo and wanted to package her as a star, but only if she denied her nationality and cut off all relations with those so-called Yuan thieves. So these people who come to the city to find their dreams are firmly controlled by a regular and orderly society. In that category, they are clowns. Huo returned to the blue sky and told Lang Lang about the solid fruit, saying that she is very popular now, and a company wants to sign a contract with her, which seems to be a famous record company. She smiled happily, as if she felt that she was not far from her dream. But Lang Lang didn't say anything, only gave him a gun and told him to protect his dream. Somehow, I suddenly felt very sad when I heard this sentence. Perhaps there is a clear understanding, perhaps there is distrust, and simple thieves can only protect their dreams directly and cruelly in this familiar way. The band was dissolved, Live House was taken back, and Guliguo became a pawn of the record company, packaged as a treasure of Shanghai, and there was nothing to do in the face of the insult of reporters. Later, she said that singing is not her dream, but her dream is actually very simple, that is, simply flying freely and being with her beloved friends. She has been unable to face the cold and orderly world. There is a passage in the movie in which the butterfly wants to buy back Live House and her dream with the money from a big box. But she didn't get what she wanted after all. It should be said that it is a miracle that she can walk out of that room alive. At this point, the dream is all over, like a farce. They tried to fly, but eventually they fell heavily back to the ground. Just like Yentown's Logo, you can't have dreams. In such a world, having a dream is a luxury, and it will cost you a lot, even your life.

-crow ~

In fact, Shunji Iwai's films all have a youthful and aesthetic feeling.

I think everything about Zhou Lili is the best of his works. You can have a look.