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Annamae 2022-11-30 12:25:50


Treasure hunt in the snow and ice that is difficult to distinguish between true and false.

Kumiko, a 29-year-old Office Lady from a large institution, has curly black hair and a red hooded sweater that she often wears in winter. She seems to be a housewife who is married and has children over the age of 30. The perm made it a year to reach the mother, and the mother never tires of calling her daughter from time to time to ask her daughter whether she has a maturity bottom line that she does not have. The colleague deliberately alienates the rustic dress, listless, and slow walking Kumiko, and the young female colleague rests next to the tea room. Shida talks about the topic of beauty. The lonely woman can't break into the colorful world of her colleagues. The tea brewing ordered by the boss is an independent work that the subordinates do not need to work hard to cooperate with their colleagues. Kumiko looked at the cup in a daze, and vomited in the saliva of the tea in time to suck it back. She still received the greetings from the boss that cared about the emotions of the employees. Afterwards, the boss still asked the employees to take the clothes to the laundry after get off work, and she still wears them. After he was in a uniform, red-shirted executive boss’s personal errands, the boss was accurate, he calculated that lifeless subordinates would leave the company and would not meet his boyfriend to go shopping in the cinema, or accompany a female colleague to say bad things about the company in a coffee shop, the boss was fancy Subordinates have too much leisure, and it is inevitable that other female employees who have to do private affairs after get off work will attract rumors. The boss feels that Kumiko will not refuse, let alone convene colleagues to hold a condemnation meeting. The boss is convinced that the subordinates cannot escape. Candidate]’s work arrangements.

The boss summoned Kumiko to the office and asked why the 29-year-old female employee was still not married? A new female colleague with big eyes and clear skin was standing next to the boss. Dingqing watched the angry senior answer that there was still no love, and the boss wanted a new one. Blood was there to listen, with two intentions. One was to uphold the Japanese company's fulfillment of social responsibilities to hire graduates, and the other was to use young faces to warn old people that if they are still single after marriageable age, it is not suitable for Japanese women to marry at the age of 30. Traditional thinking, please resign and return to your hometown. Japan accepts Western ideas on the surface, and the status of women has improved a lot. However, the female subordinates make tea and give them to the boss. The male and female are still inferior. Did Kumiko's mother call her to ask her daughter if she was promoted? Did she make a boyfriend? The daughter answered the frustrating words of the mother. The mother added to her daughter's career success, and the hope of love fell in vain. The anxious daughter asked her to return home if she couldn't find a man. The daughter was troubled and troubled mother: What about if I don't get married? What about being promoted without being an official? My daughter’s life like a living dead can escape from the cold-eyed alienation of colleagues and the loneliness of leaning against the window frame in cold rain and eating instant noodles while watching the "Fargo" video repeatedly. A friend who is already a mother asked Kumiko to meet in the tea room. The friend went to the bathroom. She asked Kumiko’s several-year-old daughter to look after her sister who was looking at her fiercely. The child did not frighten and cry. The adults fear the innocence of the child, the child Hasn't been scumbed yet; society has already destroyed Kumiko as an adult. The new errand the boss gave to his subordinates was to lend his credit card and instructed Kumi’s children to buy his wife’s birthday gifts. Isn’t the boss kidding? The old husband and wife have been with the boss for many years. Every year the wife receives a gift from the husband on her birthday. Sharing bitterness and joy, at an age, no matter what the husband gives to his wife, she will be happy. The boss is tired of the annual birthday gifts. Years are a weapon to obliterate emotional touch. The enthusiasm of newlyweds is indifferent and cold. , The boss didn’t want to bother to buy gifts for his wife. He entrusted Kumiko to handle it for him. The gift he received lied to his wife that it was his own wish.

The high-level greetings to subordinates are public private devices to be reported back. Employees only need to be competent in their jobs and do not affect their job performance. Even though they have reached the age of marriage and the marriage has not blossomed, can't they be put on the shelf? It is open for the boss to introduce juniors to participate in the meeting with the boss and the subordinates. The unbreakable law declaring women to surrender to men, and giving a card favor to the boss, Kumiko will appropriately embezzle it. However, in order for unmarried women to be treated with cold words to be fair, the saliva-mixed drink must be given to the benefactor.

A woman in Japan hopes to find the treasure mentioned in the film based on real life in the snow-covered state of Minnesota. The black box of banknotes, insert the mark, and retrieve the amount based on this in the future. No matter how shiny the dollar bills are, the movie is a movie after all, and the audience is just holding on to the mentality of watching it. Kumiko takes it very seriously, and she looks forward to abundance. Snow can wash souls contaminated by the city, bury women who cannot live alone in the city without marrying, and return to their hometown’s discriminatory prisons; a large amount of banknotes can be used as funds for escaping from Japan and living elsewhere.

The freed rabbit is unwilling to leave. The pet who feeds instant noodles to the owner feels the owner's love. It would rather give up being at ease, but also stare at her when the owner scolds and leave, and asks the owner to take it home. The owner is used to feeding and petting. The accustomed rabbit cannot return to the earth to live. Its life model is rooted in the framework given by humans, but it is rigid but comfortable and carefree; the farewell of the subway car is the owner's insistence, leaving the pet to be adopted by others? Or leaving it? Kumiko seems to be forcing a society that treats women unfairly, focusing on self-interest and ignoring human care.

Written by Patrick Chan on August 24, 2015

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Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter quotes

  • Kumiko: I only need page 95. It is my destiny.

  • Older Woman: Solitude? It's just fancy loneliness.