Sentimental Value is hard to say a complex film when we talk about the script, and from the ending it even seems like a cliché. But the core of the film is never on building the script, but on how to present it. I see that it makes an excellent use of the technique that is called the implication, along with ellipsis. Its scenes are always cut into from a very tiny viewpoint.

In the first scene, we see a novel metaphor from the perspective of a house. Accompanied by the narration, the camera checks every corner of the room, like a curious intruder and the house gives us a mottled, historical sense, a sense of weight. Similarly, in the last scene, we also see the house itself as the ending part, but appears as a form of the studio, an act in the film which creates a contrast, with the quality of immediacy and modernity.

During watching I repeatedly feel it’s really a very normal film at first but I found it “abnormal” every line、every bridge and scene latter. Maybe the sentiment’s value is such an odd thing that owns a variety of weird shapes. In the second half I finally realized the atmosphere built by sentimental values explains the motivations behind all seemingly inexplicable behaviors of characters in the context, which are joint together by montage. Therefore, we see hugs and weeps that are not led to the audience in advance. And that's what I appreciate most about all of it.