The type that is difficult to define is by no means Ozu's lament and lament, nor is it the inability of Ichieda Hirokazu, and it is not like Nishikawa Miwa's small-angle observation. This is really like a sonata, with a long development and a recurring program. Many people think that the difference between the front and back paragraphs is too large, and the family ethics drama suddenly becomes strange and absurd and cannot be self-consistent, but I think it's okay, who can say that the quiet life in the first half is not the biggest absurdity, and the second half of the story is actually the most reasonable way out. ? The entire film is neatly matched before and after, and the details are tightly stitched together. From the family's situation, to the various confusions and state of mind about the current situation of Japanese society, the relationship with the US politics and military, the panic of being squeezed by China's economy, and then to the deep portrayal of the national psychological situation. Must be complete.
In fact, this seemingly realistic film has an absurd tone from the beginning. The father played by Kagawa Teruzhi is already 50 years old, but he is still just a section manager with a big sesame and mung bean. Eliminate unemployment. In order to maintain his dignity as a family member, he dared not tell his family the fact that he was unemployed, but he still dressed up and went out to seek work every day. At the same time, the eldest son who went to college also decided to join the army due to the economic downturn, and his mind and his precocious younger son entered a delicate stage of growth. The wife, who has been a full-time housewife all her life at home, sank into a life like drowning and no one to help. predicament. A family of four, seemingly calm, but in crisis, everyone is walking on thin ice, unable to see the hope ahead.
The eldest son left home early to join the army, which shows the subtle mentality between the US-Japan alliance and the master-slave, and also shows the powerlessness of ordinary people under the constraints of reality. As my son's friend said, I want to get involved in politics so that all the laws against motorcycles can be lifted. It can also be seen that the political awareness of the younger generation is weak and indifferent.
After accumulating the daily tension of the entire first half, the fact that the father was unemployed was also exposed by the family. Dressed in the uniform of a building cleaner, he accidentally found a bag of cash in the bathroom. At the same time, his wife was kidnapped by the robber who robbed the door, but he bumped into him when he was calmly shopping. The youngest son helped his little friend but was defeated by the violence of the adult world. A family of three started running at the same time in the film.
The father fled in the exact opposite direction of his wife with the huge sum of money that could change his fate. The wife obviously had the opportunity to leave, but she automatically returned to the robber, and drove away with the robber. The younger son fled in disappointment because he was unable to save his friend. The three people in this family are all escaping from their own destiny, from a home full of ties, responsibilities, self-esteem, and appearances of happiness. It is also the first time in the escape from the identity of father, wife, son, self-awakening. Therefore, when Kagawa fled into the night, the director gave a long shot that resembled "Four Hundred Blows" to run. He ran to exhaustion, and there were constant obstacles along the way, and finally fell into a pile of garbage, but said the exact same lines as his wife at this time. : "Is it possible to start all over again?" The robber played by Kyoji Kazuyakusho was desperate and drove to the seaside, but the two could not save each other again in the romance of escape, and even a simple slap in the face was difficult to do, so he lamented: "I really hope to wake up. I found out that my previous life was just a dream.” There is a fog on the other side of the sea. You can't see anything, and you don't know anything. This is probably a deep-rooted sense of fear in the hearts of the islanders surrounded by the sea, and a reflection of the reality of confusion and helplessness. Therefore, the desperate locksmith, Koji Koji, finally threw himself into the sea, which is really the version of Kagawa's reality control group.
Yes, at this point, how can we start over in life? I don't know when everything went wrong. Typical office workers, typical happy families, have always been humble people like ants who exist as the most basic unit of society. However, he suddenly realized how wrong his previous life was. How can we eliminate such fallacies, how can we wash away such a deep sense of failure and humiliation and survive, and how can we find the meaning of life again? The answer is, only death.
So when Kagawa was knocked down in a trance, today kneels to the sea and weeps bitterly, and when his youngest son Kenji is locked in a dungeon, they all actually died once to start over. But also when you want to live like mustard grass and die like a stray dog, Kagawa slapped her butt and went home as if she was fine. When you look at the sunshine of a new day once again on the face of today's mixed feelings, you know that you can only return to the absurdity of daily life, in the life that is like a chewing gum that is crushed day after day, in the ravaged After being trampled on and letting go of the damaged self-esteem, he went home, drank a bowl of hot soup, and lived absurdly by relying on each other for life. Only then did he obtain the dignity of life that is more important than the previous social dignity.
Kenji's piano lessons seem to have been fruitful, playing Debussy well in just four months, and the moonlight is maddening, serene and graceful but subtly disturbing. When all the people gathered silently and leaned over to listen, the parents were in tears. In such a dramatic and ceremonial scene, the family stood up calmly, accompanied and left under the attention of everyone. Life is the most absurd drama.
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