This film is so highly rated, I watched it over the weekend, and it turned out to be like eating flies.
When I saw it halfway through, I thought it was a satire, a satirical drama about Japan's real society. This kind of country customs, female discrimination, family division of labor, hierarchy, red tape, reading air, conformity atmosphere, connivance to children and obedience to the elderly make me a foreigner who has lived in Japan for a long time. This kind of awkward feeling is not easy for Japanese people to feel when they are in this mountain; and foreigners who have not stayed in Japan for a long time may yearn for this kind of unity that looks like a mirror on the surface. Some of the comparisons (like the occasional replay of live baseball) made me think at one point I was paying homage to Brave New World.
In the end, it ended up being a family fun. It turns out that the director is not criticizing social issues, but praising Japanese-style family feelings (there should be a sincere smile here).
There are many unnatural places in the plot, and many childish places. Not to mention one by one. The most obvious is the sudden large number of heroine scenes at the end, which is very abrupt. In the end, the male protagonist's feeling of liking people was taken advantage of.
The male protagonist is actually very pitiful. It is equivalent to being deceived into the countryside, embarrassed throughout the whole process, picked up when it is useful, and rejected when it is not useful, repeated several times. And the heroine is really not here to be funny, it's actually very selfish, from start to finish. The only place where he showed a little kindness was the part of chasing the police car, and it didn't go very far in the end - shouldn't the Japanese drama run at this time.
In fact, the real hero and heroine are Kazuma and grandma.
PS: The squid sashimi is too hard for the elderly to chew, so it is recommended to replace it with tuna.
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