How do ordinary people live their lives to be successful? The movie "The Qingbingwei of Dusk" gave a different answer.
Qingbingwei is a person's name, because he rushes home after work every day, and never goes to spend the day with his colleagues.
At the beginning of the film, all the colleagues said that Qingbei was pitiful, and at the end of the film, they said that Qingbei was unfortunate. But Qingbingwei and his family don't think so. Qingbingwei lived his life in his own way, and left his daughter and wife with infinitely warm memories.
The movie is very quiet. Most of the time, it is all about the details of life, but when the movie was released in Japan, there were many middle-aged people crying silently in the theater.
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Before the Meiji Restoration, Japanese samurai belonged to the noble class, but in the eyes of his colleagues, the life of the low-level samurai Iguchi Kiyobei was very hard.
He has a sick wife, a demented mother and two young daughters. Because his income was too low, his wife died and he sold his family's samurai sword to hold a funeral.
His income is not even enough to maintain a basic life, so he can only make insect cages after get off work and sell them to subsidize his family. He was constantly busy, so busy that he couldn't take care of himself, and his body exuded a strange smell.
Colleagues who drink every night and have fun all feel that Qingbingwei is pitiful, but Qingbingwei lives very calmly. He tells the elders of the clan that his life is not as embarrassing as they think. He will also stop for a while on the road to watch the rhododendrons that have just bloomed.
Every night, while he was weaving the worm cage, his two daughters did whatever they could, and they chatted while working.
Qingbingwei would ask his daughter if he would feel lonely without a mother, and the daughter told him that he would not be lonely if he had a father.
He also complained about the rude relatives with his daughter, which caused her daughter to burst into laughter.
In Japan at that time and even now, few fathers can get along with their daughters so warmly, and his daughters still miss the warmth of their fathers in old age.
At that time, it was generally believed that girls did not need to read. The 10-year-old eldest daughter is studying the Analects of Confucius. She asked: I am learning to sew, and I can make kimonos or yukatas in the future, but what is the use of reading?
Qingbingwei told his daughter very seriously: Reading makes you have the ability to think. No matter how the world changes, as long as you can think, you can survive. This principle applies to both men and women.
It is precisely because of his ability to think that he can remain calm in the embarrassing life and let the life go on without haste.
The uncle wanted to introduce Xu Xian to Qingbingwei, telling him that as long as he was healthy and had good health, it would be fine. Qingbingwei directly told the uncle: Please leave me alone. He told his daughter that the uncle's words were too rude.
He doesn't want to find a random person to solve the predicament of life, he hopes that the other person is a person who can talk to each other. If not, he can also handle life on his own.
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The seemingly mediocre and down-to-earth Qingbingwei is actually a hidden martial arts master. There are two fights in the film, both of which are great.
He exposed himself for the first time to help his friend Iinuma and his sister. Iinuma's younger sister Tomoe was divorced because of her husband's alcoholism and domestic violence. Her ex-husband was a high-ranking samurai. Decided to fight him in place of Iinuma, who was unable to perform martial arts.
Pengjiang is Qing Bingwei's childhood sweetheart hidden in his heart. Because the two sides' family backgrounds are too far apart, this relationship has never been broken. Now that they are both single, Pengjiang took the initiative to go to Qingbingwei's house to help him with housework, accompany and educate his two daughters.
When Qingbingwei first saw Pengjiang at home, he was a little flustered and at a loss. He is usually very calm. He can calmly deal with the sound of gunshots, being reprimanded by unreasonable elders, being discussed by colleagues, and being disliked by the Fan Lord. Only facing Pengjiang, he seemed to have become a teenage boy again, at a loss when facing the girl he loved.
The actors acted very well, and the momentary tension and repressed love in the heart were particularly well expressed.
With Pengjiang, even the demented mother becomes interesting. The family is happy. Pengjiang and Qingbingwei's two daughters sang together, and the two occasionally looked at each other. Qingbingwei was a little nervous. Pengjiang is very gentle.
But when Iinuma proposed to Qingbingwei on behalf of his younger sister, Qingbingwei refused, because "Pengjiang is from the Iinuma family with a salary of 400 shi, and he will not understand the plight of a poor samurai with a salary of 50 shi. My dead wife. It's just that the Hirata family with a salary of 150 can't accept the difference in status until death. I don't want Miss Pengjiang to have such troubles."
Pengjiang never appeared in Qingbingwei's house again.
The battle with Pengjiang's ex-husband exposed the martial arts of Qingbingwei. Later, when Yu Wushan, the top master in the Fan, was killed because of the political struggle in the Fan, Qingbingwei was sent to execute the task of killing Yu Wushan. If the mission is successful, his salary will increase.
Before leaving, Qingbingwei finally couldn't help meeting Pengjiang, and confided his love to her: "I have been thinking of you, thinking that when I was a child, when I was a doll for you, I dreamed of marrying you. This dream, After I got married, after you married Koda, it never faded."
He asked Pengjiang if she would agree to propose to her after completing the task, but Pengjiang told him that she had already agreed to someone else's proposal.
Qingbingwei embarked on a dangerous road to kill Yu Wushan alone.
Yu Wushan is not only strong in martial arts, but also good at attacking the heart. Qing Bingwei died in nine deaths. He killed Yu Wushan with a bit of luck and returned home full of injuries. Unexpectedly, Pengjiang has been waiting at his home for his return.
Two people who love each other are finally together after many years. Beautiful as a dream.
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The happy marriage lasted only three years, and with the outbreak of the Meiji Restoration and the Boshin War, the Qingheiwei died in gunfire in the war between the feudal lord and the emperor. Later, all the feudal lords surrendered to the emperor. Most of Qingbingwei's old colleagues and superiors achieved fame and fortune under the emperor's rule. They all said: Qingbingwei in the evening is really an unfortunate man.
When I was watching the movie, a question always bothered me. Qingbingwei, who had independent thinking ability, was very clear about the situation at that time, and had extremely high martial arts. Edo seeks a better position for greater benefit?
In fact, neither he nor Pengjiang cares much about the privileged status of the samurai. He once said that if you are not a samurai, you should be a peasant. Pengjiang once said that the life of a samurai depends on the farmers.
It was only later that I slowly realized that I was still using the utilitarian thinking of modern people to weigh, and Kiyobei, he was the last true samurai, in the spirit of samurai, loyalty is the righteousness.
When he was on the mission to kill Yu Wushan, he once said to Pengjiang: "I am a lowly position, but I am a samurai anyway." Food for the king and loyalty to the king are not weighed against interests. This is the simplicity of Qing soldiers and guards. hold on.
He did not seek a higher position because of the same insistence that a samurai would not go out of his way to do everything possible. This is the biggest difference between him and his colleagues who are calculating gains and losses even in love.
The director used the title of "The Qingbingwei of Dusk", and there is a metaphor, that is, the spirit of the samurai and the era of samurai have come to dusk.
Qingbingwei, who was skilled in swordsmanship and had a samurai spirit, died, died of artillery fire, while the other colleagues were still alive and advancing rapidly. In this way, the director tells us that the era of samurai is really gone. It's a romantic demise.
At the end of the film, the young daughter, who has entered her old age, worships at the tombs of Qingbingwei and Pengjiang. Her voice-over is as follows: "I often hear them say that Qingbingwei in the evening is really an unfortunate man. But I I don’t think so. My father is not a person who desires fame and fame. He will never consider himself unfortunate. He loves his daughter deeply, and he is loved by the beautiful Miss Pengjiang. His short life is full of beautiful memories.”
It is this that touches those middle-aged people who are crying bitterly. How many people just want to live in an ordinary life, but they have neither a warm life, nor a beautiful Pengjiang, and their favorite Qingbingwei died. .
The life of Qingbingwei at dusk is probably the story I want to tell the most. He has brilliant swordsmanship, simple persistence, pure life, and ideal love. This is the best life of an ordinary person, and it has nothing to do with fame and fortune.
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