What are the criteria for a successful man?
Are the above two problems the same problem?
The answers vary. But there must be those who unify the two questions into one answer, and there must be those who associate "rich", "enterprising", "successful career", "car bungalow" with "good man" and "successful man". Indeed, the general value orientation of this society is such that a poor man who is not motivated has no market in today's society.
There is such a man, who is good in martial arts but is a low-level warrior. He works in the warehouse accountant with a salary of fifty shi; To borrow money for a burial; he could fight a duel with someone higher in rank for his friends, but he refused to give him the task of killing his opponent, with no regard for the honor of a samurai; he went home after get off work, He never goes out to drink with his colleagues, so he was nicknamed "Twilight Qingbingwei"; he has a demented old mother and two underage daughters. Reading, because he believes that as long as you read, you can think, and you can live in any environment.
He is such a geek who redefines what it means to be a samurai by acting completely contrary to Bushido in a chaotic world where Bushido is above all else. In the eyes of many people, he is a weird person, an unsuccessful person, a poor person, but he has won the love of his childhood sweetheart woman, won the respect of daughters who are poor all their lives but full of pride for such a father, and his happy days It was only three short years, but those who understood him thought his life was complete.
He possesses the qualities of responsibility, wisdom, affection, benevolence, forbearance, and kindness that are necessary for a good man. But he doesn't seek fame, he lives in poverty, and he is only responsible for his family but unwilling to be loyal to his master. In the eyes of his dead wife, he is not a good man, because with his ability he can seek a higher status, but He didn't. He is not a successful man.
The era he lived in was the last days of a samurai, and his prudent behavior to protect himself overturned the public principle of samurai, "the way of the samurai is the way of death." But he did not lose the spirit of the samurai, but just reinterpreted the meaning of the samurai spirit. It can even be said that the real samurai spirit is not ignorance and loyalty, and there is another samurai model for reference.
Yuwu Shanemon, who he was ordered to assassinate, was a high-ranking samurai with high martial arts and a good status, but he was implicated and died because of the downfall of his master. He was so poor that his wife and daughter both died of tuberculosis. He was faithful to the Lord, but in the end he could not avoid being mermaid. It was the standard samurai of the era, but with a more tragic ending.
Qingbingwei and Youemon are both the sadness of the samurai's end, but the difference is that Qingbingwei has his own thinking and arranged a life that he is satisfied with, but Youemon is involuntarily becoming a sacrifice of the times. Taste.
If the era of the two people was removed and they were put today, they would still face the same value judgment. Seibei was a good husband and a good father, but in the eyes of most people he was a loser who did not want to make progress; although Uemon had a broken family and was lonely, his momentary status would win the respect of most people.
When the film was released in Japan, it won great honors, won numerous awards, and performed well at the box office. Many middle-aged Japanese people wept bitterly when watching the film in the theater. This film made them feel a lot. The definition of success over the years has caused them to be held hostage by the public's social value orientation and lose their true meaning of happiness and happiness. Running around and working hard all day, but not necessarily getting what you want. When you are exhausted physically and mentally, you realize that the greatest happiness is actually a simple life, ordinary family happiness, and spiritual well-being and abundance. The word twilight in the title of the film not only refers to the Qingbingwei returning home until dusk, but also to the end of the twilight in the warrior era. When there is no way out, it can reflect a person's integrity.
In fact, no matter what era we are in, each of us is a small person. The more turbulent the environment, the more we need to maintain our own peace and integrity. There is no end to the egg, but as long as he clearly knows what he wants like Qingbingwei, and perseveres unremittingly without regrets, even if he only enjoys three years of happiness, it is a very perfect life.
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