When watching a movie, there are several questions in the barrage, which may make some Chinese feel strange. In fact, if you know Japan, you will know that those phenomena are very consistent with the conditions of Japanese people and Japanese society, and even in the current era, they have something in common. for example:
1. My mother gave birth to so many children and couldn’t afford it. Why didn’t they send them to orphanages, throw them away for adoption, or let those fathers take care of them and let them fend for themselves at home?
The technical reason may be that the child has no legal status and the child is unwilling to go to the orphanage, but these are definitely not the main reasons and can be solved technically. The main factor is: mothers are selfish, save face, troublesome and irresponsible. This is a common problem of many Japanese. If the legal procedure is followed and the mother's incident is exposed, she will be scrutinized by the society. The Japanese are very special (emphasized three times~) who care about face, which is why many Japanese people make big mistakes, and they would rather choose suicide for things like scandals, and some things we don't even seem to be that level at all. A Japanese professor once said to me that in Japanese culture, as long as you die, no one else has anything to say about any mistakes you make. Secondly, it is unrealistic to ask fathers to be responsible. First, they will almost certainly not be responsible, and secondly, Japanese people will not be as stubborn and crazy as Chinese people, so mother herself did not ask fathers for money. , but let Amin go. For such a person, running away secretly is the easiest way. In real life, the attitude of many Japanese people is the same, they are timid, they love face, and they avoid problems.
2. The clerk of the convenience store, Amin's girlfriend, the landlord, and the neighbor, why is there no one to help them?
In fact, both the clerk and Amin's girlfriend helped. Of course, in the Chinese moral concept, it is far from enough. Not to mention landlords and neighbors. The Japanese society itself is indifferent. They pay attention to privacy. They are also unwilling to take care of things because they are too troublesome, so they hardly take the initiative to take care of things that are not obligatory to others. Sometimes the news says that an elderly man who lived alone died at home for a long time without being found. It's not surprising that this kind of thing happens in Japan. The Chinese, at least some of them, are quite the opposite. They think that moral obligations are almost the same as obligations. For example, if a person throws rubbish at random, the Chinese see it and may tell him to pick it up, but most Japanese people may strongly condemn it in their hearts, but will not take any action. Because he didn't need to cause trouble at all, nor was he obliged to take care of things that were not his own. Seeing a person encountering difficulties, if you have the ability, but you do not help, the Chinese will think you are wrong, the Japanese may think it is normal. It's hard to say which attitude is better. The Chinese can sometimes feel like a nosy, and the Japanese can seem too indifferent, but in a legal sense, there's nothing wrong with that.
3. Why didn't they ask for help?
The movie mentions that life in the orphanage was not good, which may have been the case in the 1980s. But as mentioned above, the personality of the Japanese is also a factor. In the end, the youngest sister died, and they didn't take the initiative to seek help, but only hoped to call the mother who had no possibility. Is there anything worse than death in this society? If so, what would it be? It may be isolated society, apathy, and despair.
I am not writing this to say that the Japanese and the Chinese are good and who are not. Many times, I vaguely feel that the society is progressing and the quality of people is improving. We will definitely become more and more polite and educated in the future, just like Developed countries, like the Japanese, can be followed by increasingly indifferent and isolated social relations. The innate emotional connection between people no longer matters.
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