Film review "Future of the Future"

Krista 2022-04-20 09:02:55

At the beginning of the chapter, after the narrative background of music and albums, the camera pulls from the land and the sky into the story scene with the protagonist's family as the background - the house. In this long shot, you can see that the protagonist's house is one of a large number of houses. The symbolic story tells the story of the protagonist's family, but there are countless similar families around, so it's not just a family story. Not only that, but the camera shot from the house's perspective of God and then turned to the sky, a kind of free investment and liberating comfort. This movie is very important to grasp the time).

In the movie, the male protagonist, Xiaojun, keeps getting rid of time and space in his courtyard at home. Meeting the dog, the future, the great-grandfather, etc., is a kind of life experience that transcends time and space, a kind of communication and overlap, a kind of existence. express with. The collision between family members blooms the flower of life and the river of emotion. Although it is in the family, the dialogue between the image and the dog at the beginning has a deeper meaning, not only the existence and communication between family members, but also between people, between life and life. Jun and the future are constantly traveling on the world line - a web of flowers woven together by life. It's like watching fireworks again. Through the eyes of a newborn child, I believe that he will bloom here in the future.

Time and space are intuitively perceived in the apparent world that human beings see and feel, so does the soul of life also travel in the world and space without knowing life and death? Appreciate beauty, create beauty? Hosoda Mori has drawn a wonderful possibility for us.

Supplement: If "Millennium Actress" is a girl who abandons time and space to find love, then this film is a teenage perspective to spy on the meaning of life. During the encounter between Xiaojun and his great-grandfather, his grandfather told Xiaojun that there is a first time (probably, he forgot about it) to reveal the truth about everything. The great-grandfather galloped on the back of a handsome horse and galloped on a motorcycle. It was the first time that Xiaojun learned to ride a bicycle. A pilot flying a plane is also indispensable for the first soar of a young bird. So "as long as you learn one mode of transportation, you can master the others" (great-grandfather's words, to the effect). Xiaojun is mischievous, meeting his childhood mother and seeing a more naughty mother is a kind of transmission and breeding. When Xiaojun was lost at Tokyo Station and longed to be rescued, when he was sent to a land of no one by the Shinkansen, he first reached out to save the future, and finally was saved by the future of the future. It is a kind of origin and a kind of inheritance. It is "Three Lives and All Things". Life begins with one and then evolves into all things. There is creation and inheritance. Flowers bloom for this.

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Mirai quotes

  • Father: This is your baby sister, Kun.

    Kun: Sister?

    Mother: Isn't she precious?

    Kun: [gasping in amazement] She is.

    [pokes his finger against her delicate hand]

    Mother: You have to be gentle with her.

    Kun: [gently takes hold of the baby's hand; she opens her eyes]

    Father: She's awake. I think she's staring at you, Kun.

    Mother: Come on, her eyes can't even focus yet.

    Father: Well she sure looks like she's staring to me.

    Mother: You must always be nice to her, okay?

    Kun: Okay.

    Mother: And you have to protect her no matter what.

    Kun: Yeah.

    Mother: Always.

  • Mirai: You did it again. You tried to hit me with your bullet train even after Mom told you not to.

    Kun: But it wasn't a bullet train!

    Mirai: You aren't supposed to use a bullet train to hit people.

    Kun: It was a Super Azusa.

    Mirai: [angrily] I don't care what kind it was!

    [scoffs]

    Mirai: And why can't you be a little nicer to Mom?

    Kun: I don't know, I just can't.

    Mirai: It's her one day off from work. She doesn't get many and she has to spend it fighting with you. Come on, try.

    Kun: [sniffling] I know... I'm not cute.

    Mirai: Huh?

    Kun: [crying, wipes tear from his eye] Both Baby Mirai and Yukio are really cute. Not me. I know I'm not that cute anymore.

    [continues sobbing]

    Mirai: Oh come on, that's not true. You're very cute!

    Kun: [walking away]

    Mirai: You're the cutest! Adorable!

    Kun: [crying harder; runs away]