Warning: there are spoilers
Synopsis
In the fast-paced Tokyo, the stress of life and work pervades everywhere. The doll designer Yuezi was excluded from the company, and the deadline for the new character was approaching. The protagonist seemed to be under heavy pressure to overflow the screen. At this moment, Yuezi was attacked by road thugs. Since then, street thugs have continued to attack people in distress. At the same time, the popularity of the doll Ma Lumei designed by Yuezi is also rising.
When the panic brought by the street thugs with the image of the baseball boy and the popularity of Marumi reached their peak, the police officer also revealed the truth:
It turns out that the street thugs who symbolize people's inner fear are the same as Ma Lumei, who seems to be able to calm people's anxiety and bring peace. They are both images created by Yuezi.
my understanding
personal
Ever since the image of the street thug - baseball boy was made public, more and more people have used "road thug attacked me" to escape the breathless stress of life. This excuse became a means of escapism for the masses. In the face of difficulties, the vast majority of people adopted an attitude of avoidance, so they all fell under the bat of "baseball teenagers" (self-mutilation), and some even gave their lives (suicide)
society
In addition to personal survival pressure, the animation also describes the society, the society's reaction to the hot spots, and the three become tigers.
With more and more cases related to baseball teenagers, the masses began to compile unwarranted stories, and public opinion pointed everything to baseball teenagers. The rabble's imagination and ability to make up is terrifying to ponder.
The irony is that in order to compile a credible story, women have been involved in the small group of long-tongued women, which can be described as racking their brains and going crazy. When she came home to see her husband who was "injured by a baseball boy", her first emotion was actually a surprise - she wanted to know how the baseball boy hit people, so that her story would sound more real.
face the fear
Before the truth was revealed, the only one in the animation who defeated the baseball boy in the face was facing his police officer wife with a peaceful attitude. She spoke out her fears over the years, and in the face of her husband's unemployment and the high medical expenses required by her illness, she made the decision to seek medical treatment instead of death.
Tokyo was able to leave a ray of life because Yuezi faced the truth of the matter at the end and accepted the self who didn't hold the puppy's rope. (Speaking of Jin Min's works, most of them are stories of characters' entanglement and finally self-reconciliation.)
In the world of adults, stress is indispensable, and it may be more from inner anxiety and fear. Expecting help from the outside world (Boy Boy) can't solve the problem, neither can money, let alone escape. Only by facing your deepest fear and admitting it can you overcome it. Just like the police officer's wife, in the face of her deepest fear - dragging her husband down, she finally made the decision not to give up treatment.
"A real warrior who dares to face the bleak life and the dripping blood, what kind of mourner and happy person is this?"
In addition, the most lively episode of the whole play is the experience of three netizens meeting Mian Ji to seek death. Letting go of everything and caring about nothing, even a desperate person can be happy. And in what kind of society would the happiest people be those who want to die? Absurd and ironic.
future
Strictly speaking, there is no "end" at the end of the work, and the last few scenes seem to be a repetition of the opening - people face the constant news from their mobile phones, and the work pressure seems to overflow the screen. There is no shadow of the Ma Lumei doll on the street, and instead is another mascot that looks very much like Ma Lumei. It's like reincarnation.
The ending implies that the events of "Baby Boys" seem to have had a big impact on Tokyo society as a whole, but nothing has actually changed. People are still living an unsatisfactory high-pressure life, and it seems that the emergence of the next "baseball boy" only needs an opportunity.
The subject of suspense and thriller, the depiction of the combination of reality and reality. Strong metaphors, rich cinematic techniques...
As expected of Jin Min's work! ! !
PS: Every time I read Jin Min's works, I want to write something, but I am addicted to vegetables
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