茶香

好像把心放回童年，安度流年，岁月静好。
从来没有一部电影让我这样放松，所以，一直念念不忘。
这种放松，如同告诉你，不管怎样颠沛流离，你最初的样子，一直留在心里。
因此期望自己一生的旋律，像这部，茶之味。

两个多小时的电影，起初以为会乏味，看着看着却喜欢上了片子的节奏与味道。片子讲述了一家六口的夏日生活。清新的生活小品，淡淡的味道，宁静沁心而清香回味，犹如夏日午后睡醒呆坐在屋子里头脑意识朦胧时，口中含着的那口香茶带来的感觉。很喜欢这种感觉。

看了3遍才看完，中途总想着，这到底说的啥？却在几次想放弃的时候被那些浅小的片段给打动了。那雨中不停挥舞的双手和被雨水打湿却欢乐的脸庞，那在画纸上终于翻跃上单杠的小小而坚韧的身子，于是眼睛突然就湿润了。生活多平淡丫，但感动与温馨并没有远离我们，就在我们的身边，不经意的出现。

还记得和MM一起在宿舍里一个人守一个窗户看了整整一下午的雨。

还记得MM给我email说在英国有大段的时候是躺在草坪上看云。

幸福的滋味应该就是这种悠然自得。

慢慢的看电影，回味起那些曾经的在路上看风景的时刻，被感动、被荡悸。

我喜欢那个古怪的爷爷给每个人画的画册。

The Taste of Tea is one of those films that audiences need to wait until the last minute to be able to obtain the message from the director. In other words, Katsuhito Ishill used a plot to arrange what was going to happen and what the connections were between the characters when setting an agenda.

The director’s plot to emphasize family relationships can be recognized in this film. Through out the process of the film, it seemed that the family members were only into their own worlds and there were no obvious intersections between each others: Yoshiko (mother) was busy of making her return to an animation career; Hajime (son) was falling in love with Tsuchiya; Sachiko (daughter)’s attention was on her back flip practices; however, in the end, when the director’s message was released, we saw the impacts that these individual family members had made to each other: the eccentric grandpa inspired Yoshiko’s creation of animation; uncle’s help made grandpa’s dream of singing came true; last not the least, the art album that grandpa produced for the whole members – they might not look like a close family, but likewise every family, they truly cared and tried to encourage each other from the bottom of the heart.

Individualism is another terminology that the director used in the making of this film. Characters in The Taste of Tea were living in the north of Tokyo, mainly having a life that was very different from the life style of city people, therefore, it is arguable to say their lives were a little boring. Despite this, Ishill let everybody show plenty of individualism which defined a crucial capitalism value – even the lest recognizable individual shins. The behaviours of grandpa might be very unreasonable, but he used those inspirations in his music video; the two guys wore wired animation outfits in the train; the baseball played who were training besides the river; the director operated numerous of little stories which might not make significant sense at explaining the story line, nevertheless, it is clear enough that a plot was used by Ishill to identify the simple value and worthiness of a human being.

The editing style in The Taste of Tea is something worth paying attention to. The editor did not do a job of cutting scenes tidy and frequently. In fact, abundant of long scenes appeared in the film to define a notion of the peaceful lives lived by the family and many others in the film. The most noticeable one in this category was the scene that the family was sitting in the living room and drinking teas, which occurred several times. Also, the similar editing style was shown in the scene that Hajime and Tsuchiya were playing chests (that scene lasted more than 2 minutes). I would put this film to the category of light comedy, where not many apparent “fun” scenes were found, but its funniness did offer somewhat philosophies. To me, The Taste of Tea was making a sound saying, life is just like the taste of the tea, which we are able to find in every corner of the world.