Drive My Car: un paseo a la compasión - Drive My Car: a ride to compassion

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Drive My Car es una película con un mensaje sumamente hermoso; su gran confección la ha hecho merecedora de su nominación a los premios Óscar cómo mejor película del año, mejor guion y dirección. ¿Qué es lo que hace a este largometraje tan especial? Acompáñame a descubrirlo en este nuevo video para la plataforma de 3speak.

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• Musicalización

A New Beginning
Músico: Agnese Valmaggia
URL: https://filmmusic.io/song/6510-a-new-beginning
Licencia: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Youth
Músico: @iksonmusic

Música: Dome

• Músico: Jeff Kaale

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They say that life is not easy; Every day we face difficult situations that put us against the wall, that plunge us into darkness and confront us with the terrible reality. Even so, after extensive battles, we find that inspiration that forces us to move forward: they call it love, a feeling that gains strength when we share it with others, when we vent everything that afflicts us and makes us vulnerable. We travel in a car, isolated from the steering wheel, waiting for one more reason to convince us that, even when the adventure is short, the experience leads us to reflection.

Drive My Car is just that: a film of transition, of humanity, of compassion. It is a drama of essence, a story that reveals two parts in the same mirror; reflexes and empathy on the paved streets of Hiroshima. Nominated for an Oscar for best film, this great compilation of theatrical and emotional sentiments walks us through memory and affliction under two ionic characters. A red car, like the passion of memory, sings the melodies of a recording tape with the voice of tragedy. A man listens to her, while a woman sees him in the rearview mirror, ignoring the silhouette of the giant city of new opportunities. There is much in common between them, but…

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Will they be able to share the agonies and free themselves from the black and white in their pasts?

Ryūsuke Hamaguchi guides this feature film through the avenues of our feelings, drawing inspiration from the work that Haruki Murakami once shared in his collection of short stories; theater, suffering, attachment and emotional loneliness are our tickets in this film that, flaunting its incredible filmmaking, gives us a hard lesson about the hardest life; the one that everyone wants to run away from but that catches us at some point. How to escape from that prison of melancholy? How to escape from what was and could we avoid? Join me on this journey through Drive My Car, a Japanese film that is undoubtedly a magnificent work of the seventh art.

Synopsis

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On the brink of fulfilling his dream, in the tumultuous fields of spiritual conversion, Yusuke Kafuku delves into the sudden onset of tragedy and betrayal. It has been hard; the journey was difficult. The rear-view mirror of his memories takes him to that moment in which he lost the great love of his life for the second time and for good. Clinging to the idea that he promised in his thoughts, Yusuke surrenders to the prickly voice that the recorder offers him: Oto, the absent lover, would push him to continue his career as a theater director and playwright. And that is how, convinced of following the direction of his instinct, he decides to accept the greatest challenge of his aspirations: Uncle Vanya, the work that Oto longed to see under the reins of Yusuke, and that he, flooded with emotional attachment, has decided to adapt at the Hiroshima theater.

Enlisted in the new adventure of his heart, Yusuke is assigned to a chauffeur who, in addition to driving his car, will begin to tear that small tack that separates him from improvement. Misaki Watari then becomes that confidential fragment, that shoulder where Yusuke can lay his head to recount his vague thoughts. She, with her hands on the wheel, will lead her path to the unexplored world of sentimental metamorphosis, filling a void that doubt and love had left in both hearts. The road is not easy; The streets are dangerous, but two souls are stronger than one, right? New paths are carved in this film where understanding and empathy are, neither more nor less, than the most powerful weapons to continue with life.

Of course, there’s more to Drive My Car than tires and memories in motion. Join me to analyze the most attractive elements of this feature film.

Simple but loyal premise

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Drive My Car is a work full of feelings; the image and the characters converge in a single setting, one where languages break down barriers and emotions are the bridge to the soul. Each moment is a conglomerate of sensations and memories, of a conflict that succumbs to the dramatic axis under the very frustration of its protagonists. We are talking about a film that is capable of following a rhythm from beginning to end, without detaching itself from its original message or from its own narrative form. The script distills the dramatic elements with a slow rhythm, but carefully detailed. Through the minutes we venture into a feature film that evolves according to the will of its characters, reaching a conclusion with touches as harmonic as literal. We are talking about a conversion piece; of a before and an after. Of a necessary relief for the relief of sadness.

A solemn visual portrait

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The image is the character. Isn’t that the basic rule of any feature film? Ryūsuke Hamaguchi does not confirm them in a masterful way. The camera converges on the transition: a moving car, a recorder, a rear-view mirror and a clean, gigantic city isolated from so many agonies. Everything revolves around movement, the need to keep going like tires that roll and roll on the pavement. The camera becomes our messenger, and the portrait we look at later covers our pupils until they are hypnotized. Photography and direction come together in a single anthem to captivate us shot by shot, character by character, scene after scene. The combination of rustic and urban elements to draw the path of this film is a success.

two directions, one path

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Each character shares the same affliction in this feature film, be it pain or grief, misery or guilt. On the one hand we have Yūsuke Kafuku, who is shown to us as that unfortunate piece that tries to overcome his own guilt. Hidetoshi Nishijima’s interpretation is silent, passive, vulnerable, only upset by Tōko Miura in her role as Misaki Watari; she is more curious, more nosy. The trigger comes from that car that unites it both with her past and with Kafuko’s past. They are made for each other, at least when it comes to nostalgia.

Why watch Drive My Car?

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This feature film is a deep drama; a journey to the reality of compassion and the root of empathy; It may be slow, but the density of the settings fits into a cinematographic work with great vigor. If you are a lover of stories of overcoming and change, you should give Drive My Car a try; a film where emotional isolation is the first barrier that must be broken. In understanding we find our way to overcoming… just turn on our feelings mobile and drive along the road that leads us to self-compassion.