The favorite scene in "The Godfather of Tokyo", of course, is that Ahua fell from the top of the building in order to save the baby Qingzi, but was supported by a sudden gust of wind and landed steadily on the ground. At this time, the first sunlight in the morning was just shining. Bright his face and seeing this, I know, Oh, Jinmin believes in God, and the whole "Tokyo Godfather" is about the story of God creating miracles one after another in order to save those kind people.
After experiencing the bloody killing of the self, the id, and the true self in "The House of Wei Ma", and the constant pursuit of phantoms in "Millennium Actress", "The Godfather of Tokyo" is more like Konmin’s brain rest stop. Here, he Finally, how can I put it? You don't need to bother to construct a dual world of reality and illusion, you don't need to stare into the abyss of human nature or be stared at by the abyss, but tell a simple story like a fairy tale like a boat ride. This story may have been told gently by my mother before going to bed when I was young, or read it accidentally in a book when I was adolescent, but it is certain that such a story actually existed in every one of us long ago. In a person’s heart, there is just a little heart that has gone through hardships. The face of the story is gradually blurred like glass that is constantly scratched. For Jin Min, he decided to tell this story when he was just 40 years old. .
Since when did we no longer believe in "miracle" in the world, but chose to equate "miracle" with "naive" and "naive"?
The opening of "The Godfather of Tokyo" was a miracle. The story of "Nativity" was staged on the church stage, and the audience below was a group of sleepy homeless people. All they paid attention to was the charity of the church after the performance. Can the "Holy Communion" fill the stomach? Except for one person, that is A Hua. Ahua is a transgender person. He is born with a strong motherhood and desires to have his own children. However, before long, he and his companions, Jin and Miyuki, picked up a small baby in the garbage dump. Hua named her Qingzi. At the moment when Kiyoko appeared on the scene, I was already thinking of Jesus who was born in the stable, and Ahua, who was infertile but had a child, was equivalent to Mary who was pregnant and gave birth without personnel. Immediately afterwards, holding scattered clues, the three decided to set off to find Qingzi's mother.
Ahua, Lao Jin, and Miyuki are actually three unlucky ones. None of their plans can be implemented smoothly. However, what makes their journey possible are one after another coincidences and endless miracles. When Qingzi’s only ration milk powder was spilled, the three of them met in a cemetery that happened by chance. They just met a tombstone with paper diapers, milk powder and milk bottles. Seeing this, I really wanted to vomit, where would anyone be? Put these things in the cemetery! But think about it carefully, if this is the case, then behind these tributes, there must be a very, very sad story hidden.
The gang boss that Lao Jin accidentally met, his little brother happened to be the culprit who caused the destruction of Lao Jin's family. The assassin who wanted to assassinate the gang boss just happened to kill the little brother and avenged Lao Jin inadvertently. Ah Hua named the baby Qingzi, which happened to have the same name as Lao Jin's daughter. After Ahua fainted due to exhaustion, Jin and Miyuki sent him to the hospital, and the nurse on duty in the hospital happened to be Jin's daughter. Lao Jin made up his own past, which happened to be the life experience of the target of her daughter's marriage. The police officer in charge of investigating the missing baby happened to be Miyuki's father. The woman on the bridge who wanted to commit suicide happened to be the one they were looking for to throw away Qingzi. These "just happen" are too many!
If we say that a script can only be sustained by coincidence, we call it director lazy, then there is nothing but coincidence in the script of "The Godfather of Tokyo". At the end, I suddenly realized that this is not a logic-based approach. The story that promotes the development of the plot, what Jin Min actually does is to become the "God" of the whole story, using his "hands of supervision" to guide all the way, and finally reach the perfect ending of the family carnival.
Maybe Jinmin wants to tell us through these coincidences and unexpected encounters that the more eager to find the things, the more hidden in the mist, the more holding on to the things, they will eventually disappear. And the things that we can really have in our lives should be like looking up at night and seeing the moon in the sky, and they happen and get naturally like this.
In the definition of Christianity, "Godfathers" are often the respected and knowledgeable predecessors who use their life experience to guide young people to find the right path that belongs to them. In "The Godfather of Tokyo", at first glance, Ahua, Lao Jin, and Miyuki are the "godfathers" of Kiyoko, who sent Kiyoko back to her biological mother. But looking at it from another direction, Qingzi is actually the "godfather" of the three of them. During the journey to find relatives, Lao Jin found "family affection", Ahua gained "motherhood", and Miyuki, she finally sensed The power of "forgiveness".
There is also a very interesting point in the film, that is, it explores the separation and contradiction between the "name" of things and the "meaning" it really represents. The gangsters who wantonly beat up the homeless people in the middle of the night, they call the homeless people "junk", and in terms of their behavior, these people themselves are the real rubbish. Compared with the mothers who wantonly abandon their own flesh and blood, the mother Sang of the nightclub where Ahua used to work, is his tolerance and gentleness to Ahua more like a real mother.
Many things in this world, their universal meanings and the meanings they truly represent, are precisely contradictory to each other. Human beings are too rational and are often confused and misled by the various labels affixed in their heads since childhood. And forgetting to open up, jumping out of the inherent thinking, only by feeling and following those emotional trickles, can we lead us to the final answer.
When the heart misses a beat because of the appearance of Ahua’s image like the Virgin Mary, when the corner of the mouth rises with the ecstasy of the protagonist in "How Beautiful is Life", when the tears fall with the letter in "The Thief Family" When the self-reporting of Wang gradually loses control, you will know that the hidden deep story in your heart will be blurred, but it will never be forgotten, just like at this moment, it has been told again, at least Before the story is over, you once again believe that miracles will happen in this world.
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