Sonoko On is a new hope for Japanese directors. If I had doubts before, after "Mediocre", there is no doubt about it. Furuya Mi's original work is avoided. In front of more original directors, the original work is just a target for reference. In the film, Sono Ziwen explores a question that plagues all human beings - who am I, where am I, and what should I do. These seem to be three problems, but in fact they are all "self-cognition" problems. Because of his absurd father and mother, and the background of the earthquake, Sumita-kun begins to doubt the meaning of life. He doesn't believe in any extraordinary human beings, he thinks everything is ordinary.
In other words, there is no such thing as surprise or hope in this world. Surviving in the cruel reality he admits, he finally picked up a stone and killed his father. He killed people. The time after the murder is a day bestowed by God. He decided to use this bonus day to be a "road demon", but only to kill those scum that endangered society. This is a mistake that countless people make occasionally. You expect harmony and fraternity in society, but the opposite of harmony and fraternity is chaos and evil. Chaos and sin, in turn, give birth to harmony and fraternity. If chaos and sin disappear, harmony and fraternity lose its reference and become something else (and no longer the so-called harmony and fraternity). Moreover, chaos and sin cannot be eliminated. A room less than 10 square meters can be cleaned all the time, and the dust will not disappear. On the contrary, they will become more obvious and dirty because of their relative cleanliness.
Under the protection of Cha Ze, Sumita-kun gradually understood this truth. Everything that the old man who lived in the courtyard of the charter house did for Sumita, and everything that Chazawa did, was for the same purpose, to keep Sumita's doubts and hesitations going. They didn't want Sumita to gain eternal peace in the movie, Sumita commits suicide to gain eternal peace. But he finally gave up this act, because in post-earthquake Japan (a society where trauma is common today), a person who always has doubts about the present world is an absolute positive force. He is more motivated to promote human progress than those people in the city who demand to give up their seats. On the contrary, people who act and talk about the established social rules have become walking dead. Of course, Sumita is not ordinary, and he will pay the price of suffering for it. There are always buttons of "collapse", "madness" and "death" in his life options, but at the same time, he may also come to his senses and discover the true meaning at any time. More often, he swings between poles, as shown in the movies. On the one hand, he wants to wash his ugliness, on the other hand, he is happy to be full of mud...
The supporting roles in the film are almost brought together by Sonoko Wen's love generals, including the male protagonist in "Exposure of Love" (a boy who sings on the street) and the male protagonist's stepmother (Sumita-kun's mother in the film), as well as "Ice Cold". All the protagonists of "Tropical Fish", even Kubozuka Yosuke, who rarely sees each other again, also showed up. Yuan Ziwen has his own set of choice of actors. The two young Japanese actors who play Sumita and Chazawa this time are really talented, especially the actor Sumita-kun. Alas, while lamenting the strong momentum of young Japanese directors, I can't help but shake my head at the lack of anger of the younger generation of directors and actors in China.
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