The Shock Tokyo Film Review

Stacks of instant noodles, books, paper rolls and other daily necessities are neatly stacked at home. There is no need to close the door to go to the toilet, and there is no need to stand at the dining table to eat. He is an otaku who has not been out of the house for 11 years. He reads mountaineering, fishing, and travel magazines, but never goes out to practice. He imagined that he was walking on the noisy street without eye contact with others. The dazzling sunlight made him feel uneasy. He said that he hated contact with people, hated contact with the sun, and he was autistic. My father sends him money by letter every year, and he orders a PIZZA by phone every week. With these communication tools, people can realize a world of their own without contacting the society. He said that he could see the passage of time, the movement of the hour hand, the change of light and shadow, and that only lonely people have the leisure to pay attention to such small details.
Seeing this, my heart resonated a lot. Although I'm not someone who stays at home all day long and doesn't go out, but the otaku in the film's escape from the world also exists in me. Difficulty communicating with others, disliking eye contact, etc. A group of people like otaku and otaku are not uncommon in today's society. Because they cannot bear social pressure and are rejected by society, they choose to escape reality and self-isolate, so they stay at home. I think everyone will have an escape complex more or less, and I can understand the emergence of such a social phenomenon. But in fact, the practice of closing yourself will only isolate yourself from all the people, things, and things you don't like, including the people, things, and things you like. It is a way of cocooning oneself, protecting oneself, but letting oneself lose more.
The ordinary life lasted for 11 years, and one day after the otaku was isolated from the outside world for 11 years, his life turned around. He made eye contact with someone for the first time. It was a girl who gave away PIZZA, with pale complexion, bright eyes, and soft hair draped over her shoulders. The strong vibration in the otaku's heart caused an earthquake, and the earthquake gave him the opportunity to contact the girl. The girl fell at the door of the otaku's house. The otaku, who hasn't been in contact with anyone in 11 years, looks panicked, clumsily trying to wake the girl up, and stumbles across the button on the girl's body. After he nervously pressed the restart button, the girl really woke up. After the girl left, the otaku couldn't calm down for a long time. The love that had been dormant in him for so long was reawakened when it all happened. So he decided to break through his inner struggle and put on his dusty shoes to find his love. The otaku who has not tried to leave the house once in 11 years, finally stepped out of the house under the call of love. In fact, there is no lack of beauty in life. Girls are the symbol of beauty in life, and they are worth breaking through and searching for. If we close ourselves, we are closed not only in darkness but also in beauty. If you lose contact with the outside world, life loses its vitality and is bland. What is the value of life?
The otaku ran all the way excitedly, and the streets were empty. It turned out that most of the people in the city hid in their homes and no longer had contact with the outside world. This city where people have closed their hearts is silent and lifeless. At this point, the otaku finally found his girl, and the earth shook again. People rushed out of their houses to escape, and people finally began to appear on the street. The earthquake stopped in just ten seconds, and people hid back home. At this time, the girl wearing a hard hat came out of the house and finally stood in front of the otaku again. The otaku activated the button representing love, and the girl's eyes gradually filled with love. At this time, the earthquake struck again, this time causing this What shook the hearts of the otaku and the girl. People are building connections, and it takes telepathy to cause inner vibrations. Blindly refusing to communicate, everyone takes care of themselves, how can there be a collision of souls?
I think the idea conveyed by the film is to break through the inertia and fear of communication and find the beautiful things in life. We can choose to be passive and avoid the world, just like the otaku in the film who is lonely and self-contained, watching the passage of time, life continues, but unfortunately there is no content, people are empty. A city full of self-closed people will be like the empty Tokyo in the film, dead silent and lifeless. And if we choose to welcome it positively, the good and the bad, the likes and the dislikes are all accepted. Although life is full of flavors, it enriches the content and we gain more.

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