![]() Teach me how to build custom bikes while we wear matching onesies smeared with oil. We’re panting, sweating, suffering, it’s summer and it’s terrible to ride this bicycle. As a result, she’s constantly behaving as if this identity is true and will always be true. This story that our main character tells about herself is a story that she has permanently attached to her identity. Money is a means to achieving something, so I’m categorizing it with purpose too. Parents and friends mean connection, hobbies and goals are within the category of purpose. Or “I am alone because I am disconnected from others and I have no purpose”. No parents, no hobbies, no money, no friends, no goals. This show will tap into a very personal experience of slowly blooming into oneself. This momentary oneness of an individual living in the present was so beautiful. Two scenes caught my eye, the first one when Koguma ( Yomichi Yuki) opens her window, sighs while looking at the sky, almost in search of a meaning, The second, while riding her bicycle, as the wind blows her hair and she closes her eyes, she breathes in and smiles peacefully. The stillness of a moment in between moments, a glint of sunlight seeps through the curtains. ![]() From the macro we delve into the micro: an apartment. ![]() ![]() In the Japanese countryside the birds are singing, an empty train arrives at the station and we travel across the landscape while being led by a piano’s touching notes.
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