Blue Period - a Japanese-inspired movie that starts slowly, making viewers doubt its later appeal, but then gradually understand why everything has to be slow, because it's a familiar but fierce journey of 'choosing a major' that will make your soul bleed.
Blue Period Movie Poster
High school student Yatora is expected by his kind mother to enter a public school because his family cannot afford it. The quiet student loves his mother and behaves politely, asking her to rest assured that he will know what to do.
Everyone thought Yatora knew what he should do, because he was a good student and his peaceful school life showed no signs of danger. Only Yatora's eyes were always filled with sadness, sometimes a deep sadness. And his soul was filled with uncertainty about the future that he didn't know who to confide in.
Until the day he wandered into the Art Club and his mind was deeply absorbed in the painting his senior was drawing. He had no qualms thinking she was a genius, each painting she drew was like a prayer for happiness for the viewer. But his senior insisted that cultivating in art was more important than talent.
Blue Period movie version adapted from manga
And Yatora began to be haunted by his own magical blue painting in the early morning neighborhood. Unable to stop, Yatora had an even more "terrifying" dream: entering the difficult art department of Tokyo University of the Arts with an acceptance rate of 1/30.
The film is set in a school setting that is very familiar to high school students in any country. But it is true that people can tell similar stories in their own way.
Yatora's teachers and friends are built quite strangely and oddly. A gentle teacher in charge of the club but always suggests that her students explore their own interests, time is important but not giving up is valuable. A third gender friend is not afraid to use all kinds of tricks to make Yatora dare to touch art. And a test preparation teacher is not afraid to "curse" students who refuse to scratch themselves to find their own identity.
And finally, the kind mother was very worried but listened to her son's heartfelt plea: Tokyo University of the Arts is also a public university, and please let me study happily.
A collection of many characters revolving around Yatora doing all sorts of things according to their own personalities, but filled with tolerance for the dreams of a young person, pushing, tearing, gently following the process of an immature "child" breaking himself.
Choosing a career is not a short process, it has illusions, hopes and disappointments, discoveries, tearing and then bursting. That process is also painful and laborious. When you realize you are not a genius, that disappointment is extreme, but coming to the decision to practice until you become a genius is a decision that opens up the sky.
Yatora in the movie Blue Period
The scene where Yatora takes the official entrance exam to Tokyo University of the Arts is truly the highlight of the film.
In a certain period of time, people do not just finish certain tests, but the exam also gives students breaks to collide with life, meet someone and understand more about art and expose the shells in their souls. In the glasses that fell in the middle of the exam room, there was Yatora's face broken into many pieces. He picked up from there a profound philosophy for his exam.
The film was adapted from a manga comic and has been made into a TV series, so the movie version currently showing in theaters is under a lot of pressure from the audience of all three versions.
But my college freshman daughter could only say "so good" when the movie ended. She also spent a long time not knowing whether she liked math, physics or drawing, and spent a long time studying for art exams, so her eyes were filled with admiration for the movie.
On film forums, teenage audiences also praised the film a lot. Although the film is being shown quietly and according to social networks, the film's revenue is very low, this should be a work that parents and children should try to see.
The film can be moving, and is remembered by children when they are faced with the question of what they really love. The answer to that question is not for parents, but begins a deep struggle within their own souls.
Blue Period is a Japanese film directed by Kentaro Hagiwara, starring Gordon Maeda. In Vietnam, the film is rated for audiences aged 16 and over.
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