practice

Darian 2022-12-20 13:10:51

When I heard what my father said, I couldn't take it back, because it was the dignity of a father, and a parent, without dignity, would be finished. So why do you need children? Because no matter how miserable you are, do you have almighty authority and power in front of your children? It is really difficult for a person to truly grow into an adult. The vast majority of people, all their lives, have been miserably seeking a little bit of security.

Needless to say, from elementary school students to middle-aged adults, a clear sense of despair permeates Japan throughout this film.

After the father's unemployment surfaced, the eldest son took the American dream to join the army, and his life and death were unknown; the kidnapped mother lay crying on the beach, the father who was hit by a car fainted and died on the roadside, the younger son went out alone He was locked up in a detention center because he was caught by the police for evading fares. Really sad and desperate. In such a miserable life, everyone is thinking, if you can start over, but you can't start over, then at least let everything end at this time.

The joke is that such a hopeless life was back on track the next day. Father and son reconciled, everyone reconciled with life. Even the eldest son who went to the United States has to come back because of the reduction of the army. Those hurt and pain, we selectively forget it.

After despair, there is such new hope. However, is such hope a layer of skin wrapped around the numbness? But it doesn't matter, many things in life are inherently incomprehensible.

That's why I said, this is a practice.

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Tokyo Sonata quotes

  • Megumi Sasaki: Screw your authority.

  • Megumi Sasaki: How wonderful it would be if my whole life so far turns out to have been a dream, and suddenly I wake up and I'm someone else entirely.