lonely existence

Haven 2022-02-28 08:01:55

Maybe there really is a person like Tony in this world. Tony Taki Valley. Like he appears in Murakami's novel and Ichikawa's film. His presence seems more real than yours or mine. When he occupied your time for more than an hour, interpreting his life in front of you, a lonely life, and being shared, after that, he seemed to really exist - unlike you, you are also lonely, this loneliness but unknown.
So it resonated with Tony because he was so completely alone. It can even be synonymous with loneliness. His father curled up on the ground in his cell in 1940s China, listening to the gunshots of the execution outside the window. His peaceful and beautiful mother, who had only been with him for three days, left. His tedious long work as a painter alone. He thought that his wife, who was alone in his mind, had freed him from loneliness, but was desperately shopping because his inner loneliness could not be relieved. They all left him alone.
As a person who has lived alone since childhood, eating alone, sleeping alone, walking alone, thinking alone, after growing up, he is still alone, driving a motorcycle on the road alone, and painting in the studio alone. Before he met the woman who became his wife, he didn't particularly experience this kind of loneliness, and he was very used to it. After meeting that woman, he realized loneliness and wanted to get married. After marriage, he looked at her, whether it was her sleeping face or the way she was doing housework, it made him sincerely happy. Will loneliness end?
no. Just walked a long way together. After his wife left, he left behind a room full of clothes. After my father left, he left behind a pile of precious vinyl discs. Looking at these, he couldn't calm down. After selling all these to a second-hand store, in the empty house, he lay on the ground in the same posture as his father in a Chinese prison cell in the 1940s, and his heart finally calmed down, and he returned to loneliness again. But, there's really nothing wrong with that.
Someone once lived in us. He also once lived in our hearts. He takes loneliness away and returns it. Tony's father lost his parents and brothers in the war and returned to Japan from China. "He can only live alone in the world." Perhaps this means that his blood connection with the world has been severed. He has Tony, a man who continues to be alone. When Tony was lying on the ground in an empty room in the same position as his father, by accident and certainty, I found that there are some things that cannot be erased, a hope, even if you plant a kind of loneliness, as long as you reap this kind of Alone, there is no emptiness, and life is not empty.
I love that Tony is enjoying his solitude again. Although people always try to get rid of it, you can always be with you, and Tony understands this better than anyone else. He continued to paint robots that others saw as cold and unsympathetic, but maybe some people liked them too. It's like watching a movie like this, and I like Tony's Lonely Me.
Tony is always expressionless. He's curled up in a computer swivel chair, spinning back and forth, playing with a pen, or just staring out the window. There is a strange contagion. This is what I got from this movie. He is alone.

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Tony Takitani quotes

  • Narrator: In that place, the boundary between life and death...

    Tony Takitani, Shozaburo Takitani: Was as slim as a single strand of hair.

  • Narrator: He found his home had been destroyed in the firebombing, and his parents and his only brother, lost to the same fate. In other words, he was then... utterly alone in the world.