Society from film.
This film gave me a very strong feeling: the sadness of social stagnation.
A family of 6 lives in a small one-bedroom apartment. There is basically no meat in the diet. The house is dilapidated and dirty. They have to steal things to subsidize their livelihood. Went away; Xindai works as a female worker in a laundry shop, and will also be laid off; Yaji earns money by working as a call girl; Grandma takes alimony to support her family, and she can’t let herself “die quietly” by buying insurance.
What reflects behind this is the sadness of Japan's 30 years of economic stagnation.
The class is solidified, there are few job opportunities, young people can't support themselves, and they need to eat the pensions of the elderly to survive.
Theft is starting to become a life choice for lower-class families.
I still remember the Japanese movie "The Spice Girls" that was released in China before. Compared with this film, it has more positive energy, but the essential problems are the same: after decades of economic stagnation, the window of opportunity that society has left for ordinary people has gradually That's why it's so exciting to get into a top university, because that's probably the only chance in life that gives you a chance to make the leap.
Correspondingly, movies like "The Richest Man in Xihong City" are released in China. This is unimaginable in Japan: because they are too far away from the era of getting rich.
Throughout this film, although the main scenes are the reversal of the plot, the revealing of secrets, the warmth and goodness of human nature, and the torture of family ethics, but the whole film is full of repressed emotions from the beginning, and the second half of the film shows in the repression. The human warmth revealed is a reflection of the loss of hope for the future.
In a stagnant society, there are no demons, no overnight wealth after the listing, no queues to buy a house, and no huge demolition funds - the grandma in the play is unwilling to hand over the old house and move to the apartment. If it is replaced in China, 80% of the owners will burst into tears. Holding the hand of the land expropriator, "I'm looking forward to you!"
Looking back to the 1980s, the impetuous Japanese society, the indomitable nation, the Japan that waved 10,000 yuan to take a taxi and bought the landmark of New York, how could the people have thought that there would be today's sadness and hopelessness.
Forgive me for getting too far from the subject of the movie.
Economic stagnation is terrible, it is not just a decline in international standing, it will make life difficult for ordinary people, and it will make the efforts of young people meaningless.
Do we, who are still crazy about the richest man, and those who are still worried about the society being rich and inhumane, have chills down our spines?
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