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.