"Always chasing after something that has been lost, or something beyond your reach. It's always like this, how about enjoying life. If you don't open-minded, you'll never get true happiness."
What impresses me most about "Deeper Than the Sea" is that it successfully portrays people's gradually easing attitude towards their unsatisfactory life: they are farther and farther from what they want to be, but they are no longer so resentful; I am no longer so resistant to people and things that I once wanted to strictly draw a clear line. People always have to learn to slowly accept their imperfections and shake hands with their regretful lives.
Many aspire to be writers. This is not a whim. In his early years, he published a novel and won an award. He was a popular figure in the class. He insisted on his literary dream. The boss of the detective agency advised him to become a full-time detective, but he refused: "I came here to accumulate materials"; the editor of the publishing house asked him to create a story for a gambling comic. At first, he also He refused on the grounds that he was creating a new work.
It is a pity that the god of literature did not care for him anymore, leaving him with post-it notes full of inspiration and a troubled life. In order to collect enough support for his son, he had to blackmail the customers of the detective agency in disguise. He had to steal from his parents' house to pawn it, and borrowed money from his colleagues and sister. The borrowed money was turned into gambling.
Despised by the middle school students he extorted, he angrily taught: "Being who you want to be is not that easy!"
After losing the bet in the racing car, he shouted at the players unwillingly: "Come on like a man!"
Being laughed at by his wife for buying a lottery ticket, he excitedly defended: "Buying a lottery ticket is a dream for 300 yen!"
These indignant words are more like venting their dissatisfaction with their poor situation and expressing their grief for their underappreciated talents: the writer's dream is difficult to come true, the wife thinks that she is not acting as a divorce, can't pay the child support, and can't afford the right Mother's obligation, even when someone knocked on the door, she didn't dare to open the door easily, for fear that she would come to collect water, electricity and gas bills. He was bruised and bruised by reality, unable to fight back. Extremely resentful, he had no choice but to "Cry for a long song".
His sister criticized him: You stand here and borrow money from me, just like your father.
Many have hated their fathers very much. Because he was no longer working hard, his family was forced to move out of Nerima and into Danji; Dad kept taking things from the house, even his son's stamp album. In order not to repeat the mistakes of their fathers, many childhood hopes were to grow up to be a civil servant and lead a stable, "normal" life.
However, many who have been repeatedly ravaged by life and forced to take the path of their father's pawn and borrowing money, seem to have gradually understood their father, and understood the unwillingness and pain behind his father's seemingly depraved behavior. He sorted out the censer for his father and asked his mother, "What kind of person does Dad want to be? His life did not turn out as he wished."
Mom replied: "Are you thinking of him? No matter how much you miss him, you can't bring it back. You have to treat him well while you are there."
The resentment towards his father was repeated in many of his sons, Shingo. When he was praised by his grandmother for his excellent literary talent, like his father, Zhenwu asked cautiously, "What is literary talent?" Because his father caused his parents to divorce, in the young Zhenwu's eyes, his father's behavior was wrong and should be avoided. , so Shingo is instinctively disgusted by the clues that "I look like a father". In the slide, many asked what Zhenwu wants to do in the future? Zhenwu gave the exact same answer as many when he was a child: "civil servants".
Zhenwu asked a lot: "How about you?"
Looking at the torrential rain outside the slide, many looked thoughtfully and said, "It doesn't matter who you want to be, what matters is that you have worked hard."
During the stormy night, many reached a reconciliation with their late father and also with themselves.
In fact, only children will judge right and wrong based on the outcome, will stubbornly adhere to the concept of black and white, and will take cause and effect as a matter of course. However, I believe that as he grows older, Shingo will gradually understand his father in the future. The wisest grandma in the movie, even though the tree is useless, still waters it; although her son's literary talent can't get a decent income or a big house, she still gives a lot of affirmation in front of Zhenwu, Uphold his dignity:
"Writing is a great talent, not everyone has it."
"If you want it but you can't get it, what can you do with your life." If you have nothing to do, just let it go! Just let life go on.
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