The film begins with a bizarre X-film to tell the story of Watanabe, standing in the perspective of God.
Watanabe started out living the same pattern as most people, like The Walking Dead, copy-pasting carelessly every day. As the resigning female employee Odakiri said, he is like a mummy, and he looks like a mummy every day, but the inside is empty and the heart is empty. In fact, he is the same as another "sailfish" staff member. , but one is a young skin and the other is a wrinkled old skin.
It wasn't until he found out that he had stomach cancer and would not live more than a year and a half before he suddenly woke up, as if something was wrong, why was he so sad. Then, Watanabe began to organize his life, followed by flashbacks, and we finally knew that Watanabe became the current Watanabe for a reason, and no one will become a mummy casually.
It turns out that 20 years ago, Watanabe's wife died early, leaving young Watanabe alone to guard his young son. Perhaps out of love and longing for his wife, perhaps out of a sense of responsibility to his family, Watanabe did not remarry and took care of his young children alone for 20 years. Perhaps at that time, Watanabe's heart also died with his lover. He couldn't see the meaning of his existence. He thought that his son was the only explanation for his survival. He was so kind to his son that he even lost himself. He never thought about himself. Everything started from his son. This also directly led the son to think that the father's goodness to him was taken for granted, and even started to play the father's pension plan when the father had not retired. This made Watanabe heartbroken.
Watanabe began to reflect on himself, what was it, and he suddenly found out before dying that he was so scared. He found himself at work all the time, never really trying. And I have never worked hard in my life. I only remember now that I have never used my salary to buy wine for myself. I have saved all my income, and I am reluctant to spend it. I have saved 50,000 yuan for decades. I thought that working so hard to be good to my son was to prolong the meaning of my life. I thought that my son's achievements were my own achievements, but in the end, my brother said: "When a child grows up, he will ignore his parents and marry a daughter-in-law. I'll think you're in the way..." Now he understands that a son is a son, they are two separate people with boundaries, and their worlds cannot be integrated.
Odagiri told a joke: "—It is said that you have never asked for leave. It turns out that the city government cannot do without you. — No, I am afraid that the city government knows that it is possible without me." I know, I can do it without me: the department does not have a section chief, because there are many people waiting to climb this position; the son does not have a father, because the son and daughter-in-law are the basic units of a family. The problem that has been avoided for 30 years in an instant can no longer be avoided. Death will soon deprive the possibility of change. I am so afraid that there will be no sense of existence until the moment of death.
Watanabe began to think about how to make himself feel alive, how to make himself feel that he had lived a life, and how to make himself feel that he did not regret the calamity in this life.
The writer Watanabe met in the tavern can be said to wake up Watanabe: "...Unfortunate has a great side...Your stomach cancer teaches you to face life again...One must have greed for life...The greed to enjoy life is a virtue It can be said that the writer is Watanabe's facilitator of material desires. He took Watanabe to browse all the sensual places, wine, music and beauties. He taught Watanabe to open up his suppressed desires, release his tightened senses, and go to the world with full enthusiasm. Feel the beauty of material life without shame and guilt, only with enjoyment. And Watanabe gradually relaxed from the rigid and rigid face at the beginning, and he began to sing. Since he can't tell the pain in his heart, it is better to sing it. He sings the youth of the past, sings the annoyance of the present, and sings the eternity of life. The problem: "Life is so short, girls, hurry up and fall in love! Before the red lips fade, before the enthusiasm turns cold... No one knows what will happen tomorrow..."
Watanabe's lovely female subordinate, Odakiri, can be said to be his spiritual mentor. Her youth, her enthusiasm, her recklessness, her daring to think and act, everything about her deeply attracted Watanabe. Watanabe saw the beauty of young people in her. Maybe Watanabe when he was young also had these things, "lived", and thought about "doing something". Now Watanabe is envious of everything Odakiri has, and he wants it too, but he doesn't dare to ask for it. He feels that young people have the time to do anything that he thinks of, and it's too late for him. He only dared to look at it from a distance, and he hoped that Odagiri would accompany him, so that he could at least get a closer look. Odagiri told him: "I just work and eat... Doing these things is like making friends with babies, why don't you do something like this?" This made Watanabe begin to reflect, Odagiri, who was so energetic, was only in the most ordinary life. Find the source of your happiness and the meaning of life in work and eating, then as long as you want to do it, your work can also become meaningful!
In fact, why not. There are so many heroes in the world who save the world, but everyone is a hero in their own life journey. Only oneself can make the most ordinary and ordinary life shine.
There was one scene in the film that really touched me. Watanabe suddenly felt that he had to do something too. He felt that he must be able to do something. In that job that he had neglected for 30 years, he couldn't wait to put it. The idea came to fruition, and as he left Odakiri and rushed out of the hotel, a group of people behind him were singing birthday songs, as if to celebrate Watanabe's rebirth.
At the end of the film, he made a ruthless irony to the colleagues who were drunk and shouted that they wanted to take Watanabe as an example. What should everyone do and still return to their original trajectory. There is a reason why a person becomes the person in the original trajectory. His experience, his family, his friends, his boss, have all contributed to shaping him today. Maybe in the beginning, everyone is a young man with blood , there will be no failure, no punishment. Exposing your warm heart is not only easy to get hurt, but also when you face a group of cold and constipated faces, there is nowhere to put this warm heart, except embarrassment or embarrassment.
Only when Watanabe felt that there was not much time left did he realize that there was no time to "hate", no time to save face, no time to fear possible failure. At this time, the so-called failure of the so-called face is just a small wound under the Band-Aid at most, but death is a bottomless black hole. How to make oneself calm and peaceful when facing the black hole, without fear, is the top priority.
When Watanabe was finally swinging in the small park, I felt that his heart was full, he felt that he was no longer a person, he and the park were linked, the park was like his child, and the other side of the park was The link is the child and the countless families behind the child. This is such a link that makes him feel no longer alone, no longer afraid of the black hole of death. Perhaps the sense of existence is just such a thin link, leading to the past and the future, making the individual different from the annihilating dust, and supporting Watanabe's courage to face death.
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