The film is only for presentation, not for teaching. You can agree or disagree; you can appreciate it or not. Anyway, you start thinking about what work is, and that's the most important thing. However, I would like to talk about two clips that have nothing to do with the theme of the film, have nothing to do with the director's intentions, but just happened to see.
One is that when an apprentice practiced cutting fish, he used a knife to cut a live fish sideways. When the knife slashed to the tail, the tail swung vigorously twice. That is to say, although the fish has been cut open, it has not completely died. This image gave me chills.
Another point is that Zhenyi talked about the problem of overfishing because of the difficulty in purchasing high-quality tuna meat. He believes that because the market is getting bigger, so is the fishing effort. The fishing nets in use today do not distinguish between big fish and small fish. The small fish that are hit are useless, and they have to be picked up and thrown away in the end. Of course they were already dead. When I saw this, I felt so cruel. Humans do not feel sympathy for sacrificing the lives of many innocent fish every time, not even the mentality of waste. Perhaps, when the gap between strength and weakness is too great, there will be no cruelty. Although Zhenichi expressed the same objection as me, his point of view was completely different from mine. His objection is that overfishing is not thinking of our future generations. After all, he was still thinking about human beings.
Both clips highlight human selfishness, nobility and cruelty. Of course I am speaking from the position of the weak.
Back to the movie theme, let's talk about work. The Bushido-like craftsman culture in the film is very powerful, but in turn it confuses me even more. Why do we work? What is the meaning of work? Just to be able to eat? In addition to material needs, can work also fill our spiritual void?
There is an interesting logic to this question. The most important thing for a person is to live. The embodiment of being alive is having time. Work is about trading time for food. We kept repeating this process until we handed over all the time. The above logic can be simply summarized as our whole life is working hard for death. If this logic is true, then instead of spending time exchanging food, even if the exchange process takes 100 years, it is better not to use time to exchange food from the beginning, so that you can really live a few days before dying.
However, there is a fatal flaw in this logic. You'll find that even if you don't have time to change food, the time saved is of little practical use. Maybe you do something that you think makes sense, but chances are you'll overturn its meaning after you've done it. Unless there is something that has absolute meaning, something that can never be denied, but such a thing does not exist at all. Even if there is such a thing in the universe, it has nothing to do with human beings.
I think work has three meanings. First, work is the process of spending time and energy in exchange for the material basis needed for survival. Second, work gives people an identity, and identity equals identification. This recognition is not only the recognition of the people around you, but also the recognition of yourself. That is to say, even if life comes from nothingness and returns to nothingness, as long as you live in an identity, you will not care about the nothingness before and after death. You live in your identity like a fish lives in water. Third, work can consume people's excess energy, so that people will not fall into crazy thoughts.
Some people complained that it would be nice not to work. However, once you're not working, you'll find that what to do with the extra time is a big problem. Sometimes absolute freedom also means absolute unfreedom. I've been fortunate enough to experience a life where I neither work nor study. It seemed like everything could be done, but it left me at a loss as to what to do. There are too many choices in the heart, like standing at a huge fork in the road. I can't give myself a reason to choose this path over the other. They appear to be equal choices. So I could only stand still, trembling, as if a giant shackle had been placed under my feet.
On the contrary, like Jiro Ono, he has been walking on the same road all his life, and he is very familiar with this road and trusts it very much, which makes him appear simpler and happier.
Although the person who inherits the father's business will feel bound, but relatively, he will not fall into the confusion and pain of the future. Those so-called free people who pursue a freer life often return to a life of bondage after turning around in a big circle. What is right and what is wrong, how to judge?
Therefore, I feel that work is a necessity of life, both materially and spiritually.
Although I came to such a conclusion, I am actually a person who does not want to work. How to say, maybe a little perfectionism pathological. If you can't find the best job, it's better not to work. This morbid mentality affected me badly in many ways. Similarly, if you can't find the best girlfriend, it's better not to fall in love. I seem to be suffering from bewilderment syndrome, and the worst part is that I seem to be a little addicted. In general, time cures this disease, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
I look a bit like Parson, the protagonist in "I Haven't Going All Out", and I seem to be on the opposite side of Erlang. It's not that I don't respect Erlang's ideas, but I also don't hate Parson's freewheeling. Erlang represents a persevering perfect will, while Parson exudes a half-hearted fighting spirit, which is mixed with a lot of play. Playing can also be an attitude to life, or go all out. Just like when Erlang was making sushi in his own restaurant, his body was covered with divine light and his expression was serious. The customer on the other side will get nervous before you know it. And if I were making sushi there, I would most likely chat about Ronaldo with the guests who like football, and chat about Stephen Chow with the guests who like movies. In short, I will not have a divine light. We're like game console friends, except this is my home ground.
I have another idea about work. No matter what, Jiro loves sushi, no matter how he makes or tastes sushi, he regards this as one of the great joys in life. And I rarely see anyone around me who likes his work. I see a lot of people who are just coping, or not even coping. It is very painful for them to kill time at work, and their lives are full of complaints all the time. Since most people's work content is not what they are interested in, how do they deal with the issue of professionalism? I've never liked to work in a negative mood, and if it's really that resistant, I'll just not do it. So, is Jiro Ono's craftsmanship just because he happens to be doing the job he likes, or does the spirit he represents can accommodate all jobs. No matter how much a person resists his work, can he use this spirit in a life-threatening work?
I think the answer should be that people with this mentality, no matter what job they do, can find the value of their existence in their identity as a professional, slowly integrate into this kind of life, and then evolve into a familiar life in a familiar life. to gain self-approval, and then gain the approval of others, and experience the joy of life.
I'm obviously not someone who has that mindset. If Jiro Ono can represent a class of people, I can also represent a class of people. It doesn't matter if you are divided into winners and losers. Compared with finding an identity from my work, I was more preconceived and fell into the stubbornness of the unsolved mysteries of the universe, time and space, and the brain. I was not driven into the wilderness to quench my thirst with the rain to look up at the sky. Even if I buried 100 million yuan under my feet, I would look up at the sky. I just think it's more fun over there.
In short, don't underestimate human beings. It is just another form of ignorance to think that you will be freed from work to obtain eternal happiness.
Finally, a passage about people and occupations in the elementary school textbooks of the Republic of China is attached: Cats catch mice, dogs guard gates, people without occupations are not as good as cats and dogs.
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