People usually don't think about why they want to live and why they are afraid of death. They are always busy with things, and they also feel that death is far away from them. Just like Watanabe later let his life free, dancing, singing, drinking, eating, dating, there are thousands of reasons to live, but how did he not know how to live before he got cancer? If life is so boring, why is there such a fear of dying after a cancer diagnosis? The reason is that the happy time spent with his female subordinates rekindled his desire for life. He had just tasted the good taste of life, but his time was running out. This is also the tragedy of Watanabe. Before the diagnosis of cancer, life was as quiet as water, and death seemed so far away, so he had no fear of death, nor did he know the taste of life, because he was blindly thinking about others. After losing his wife in middle age, Watanabe has always placed the whole meaning of his life on his son. His son's joys, sorrows and sorrows have always affected him. Even after learning that he was terminally ill, all that came to his mind was spending time with his son. but when he overheard that his son and his daughter-in-law wanted to use his pension to build a new house, the son not only did not want to listen to his own difficulties, but also interfered with his relationship with his female subordinates. Desire finally shattered. A female subordinate suddenly woke up with a joke in the office. Why are people afraid of being absent from work? It's not that I'm afraid of the consequences of lacking myself, but I'm afraid of finding out that there is no difference without me. So he began to question his work and the meaning of his dying life, saving so much money in vain that he didn't know how to spend it, only to realize it was too late. And money itself has no value. This is more clearly reflected after paper money has replaced gold and silver as a general equivalent. What is valuable is what people want to exchange with these papers. In other words, money has only instrumental value. Or external value, its value depends on the purpose to be achieved, then if there is no basic conception of the purpose to be achieved, then making money will be meaningless, just like the protagonist of this film for thirty years. Work full time and end up not knowing how to spend it. It is often said that "poverty limits the imagination", but it is true that one day a windfall will come, and I believe that many people will be at a loss for a while. Poverty has nothing to do with imagination. It is well known that young children do not know how to consume, even if they are born in a wealthy family, but gradually lose their imagination in the process of socialization As the metaphor in "Sophie's World" shows, the world is a fluffy rabbit, and the process of a child growing into an adult is Sliding from the top of the fur to the depths, he can no longer look down on the world around him, but comfortably be a frog at the bottom of the well. "Poverty limits the imagination" just shows that it is the desire for money that limits the desire for other things, and this desire is undoubtedly pathological, because the money it desires is worthless and meaningless if it has no object. The protagonist has been in the dark for thirty years, perhaps because he has made money and has forgotten his desire to live.
The individual is like a part of the social machine. Although the individual parts are lacking to function normally, the machine as a whole is indispensable. Are city hall bureaucrats and civil servants really dispensable? Then why should there be a government? Wouldn't it be more efficient to leave it entirely to self-help? Or is it more efficient to hand over to a system with a careful division of labor and a high degree of specialization? In fact, the latter is not as efficient as we imagined. One of the reasons is that each department is blaming and arguing with each other, unwilling to perform functions and afraid to take responsibility. One of the reasons for this is probably due to the numerous administrative laws and regulations, laws and regulations. Various administrative agencies have been entrusted with legislative authority, and many have not limited their content but only given discretionary power. Even if they are limited, the shadow area of literal meaning can always leave room for interpretation and continuation of the law. What's more tricky is that even if the norms are clear and explicit, officials do not necessarily maintain an internal view of the norms, but are full of reasons for weighing one or the other, mostly related to their positions, salaries, and relationships with colleagues and supervisors. When the protagonist successfully builds the park, he competes for credit and rewards, or he is willing to hang up high and live in a daze. Hart said that when a legal system has only officials with an internal view of norms, the society is undoubtedly a lamb to be slaughtered. What's more, officials do not hold internal views, but succumb to interests and power, and secondary rules are generated to make up for the insufficiency of only primary rules. The danger is that only a small group of people can participate in the creation and application of the law, while the possibility of another group is completely excluded. Of course, this is more than a personal consideration. For the individual, the advice from this film is the following "Song of the Phoenix Boat":
Girl, life is too short to fall in love
Before a touch of red lips fades
Before the blood is cold
There won't be a good time like this tomorrow
Girl, life is too short to fall in love
Once you find a lover, take the boat of life
On those hot cheeks, on your cheeks
(Otherwise) no one will come here again
Girl, life is too short to fall in love
Before a black hair fades
Before the fire in my heart is quenched
There will never be a good time like today
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