What is the contact with the family?
Is it the blood that is born and inherited, or the emotion that is not related to the relationship,
Is it support after a corner, or unscrupulous damage.
In recent years, the concept of "home" has always been inseparable from the animated films directed by Mamoru Hosoda. From the large family of dozens of people in "Summer Wars" to the mother in "The Wolf's Child Rain and Snow" The single-parent family that was propped up, or the strangely reorganized family in "Youkai Son" (barely? A new family contract), Mamoru Hosoda's story is always full of family growth, rebellion and responsibility.
This year, "Future of the Future" was released in China. This time, I still feel another meaning of "home and family" in the director's mind.
The beginning of the story is like flipping through a family photo album. The director took us to quickly review the acquaintance of father and mother and the birth of Xiaojun, and then the picture changed from the long-term view of the big city to the bird's-eye view, focusing on Xiaojun's home little by little. .
coming of the future
Xiaojun is the first child in the family. He has been waiting at home for a long time, and finally his parents are coming back today. This time they also brought a little baby. Dad asked Xiaojun to name the baby, and mother told Xiaojun to protect the baby. But Xiaojun's expression was still unbelievable. He didn't know what the arrival of the little baby meant?
But later, he knew: it meant taking away his mother's care, and that he was not the center of the family. Of course he couldn't accept this, he hated everyone around the baby. Until he meets a mysterious man. He told Xiaojun that he had also taken away the attention of his parents because of Xiaojun's arrival, and this person was Yuko, the family's pet dog. Xiaojun couldn't understand what Yuko said, but by playing Yuko, he seemed to be able to feel Yuko's mood. And this kind of empathy is just the beginning of the story. Mom and Dad named the baby the future. Xiaojun bluntly said "what a strange name" (not to mention how disgusting it is).
"Me" and the future, mom, dad
future
The future will continue to touch Xiaojun's bottom line. Xiaojun doesn't like his father's care, he doesn't want to share his mother's love with the future, and he doesn't want to live in peace with the future. A magical thing happened again. Through the big tree in the yard, the future of the future appeared in front of Xiaojun. She blamed her brother for always making fun of her face, but begged her brother Xiaojun to help clean up the dolls that had not been put away.
Of course Xiaojun wants to, he doesn't like the future. Although Xiaojun later agreed to the future and solved it smoothly with the teamwork of the future, Xiaojun and Yuko, this idea has not changed.
mother
One day, Xiaojun begged his mother for a gift. Not only did his mother break the topic, but he also asked him to put away his toys. In Xiaojun's opinion, his mother blindly spoiled the future, but ignored her own thoughts, which made him cry again in grievance. Immediately afterwards, the big tree took him to his mother's childhood. Just like myself, my mother also has what she wants. She thinks that she is the favored child of the family, and no matter what she does, she will be forgiven by adults. After Xiaojun went home after going through everything, he saw his mother with tears in her eyes in her sleep, and couldn't help comforting her. This does not mean that Xiaojun can truly understand his own mistakes. He just found that even a mother like a hag can't do things, and he can't get what he wants just by crying.
dad
Xiaojun owned a bicycle and eagerly asked his father to take him to the park to practice, but he failed again and again, fell over and over again, frustration and pain made him immediately give up practice. Until he met his great grandfather again. He took Xiaojun on a horse and a motorcycle, and told him that no matter what kind of means of transportation, as long as he mastered his language, he could control everything. Although the great grandfather has a lame foot, the way he drives a motorcycle makes Xiaojun feel very cool. With the guidance of his great grandfather, Xiaojun returned to the park again. After trying several times of wrestling, he finally learned to ride a bicycle with "know-how", which shocked his father.
Originally, this clip did not have much to do with my father, but after seeing it, I found out that my father didn't start practicing driving until he was in elementary school. Like Xiaojun, he also experienced many falls and crying. More happy for him.
Mom said, this is all my father's credit. Although Xiaojun seems to have learned to ride a bicycle through his long-dead great grandfather, in reality, Xiaojun's growth cannot be separated from his father's company and encouragement.
These clips introduce the family members related to Xiaojun to the audience. They can be Yuko, a miniature mother who is blamed and crying, or a lame grandfather who is still handsome. Although they are not really in their own Appears on the trajectory of life, but has a deep and shallow connection with himself. Just like Xiaojun saying "thank you" to the great grandfather in the photo, it seems to break the gap of time.
The future and the "me"
This is the last short story of the movie.
Xiaojun lost his temper and insisted on wearing yellow trousers that had not been dried. While crying, he was taken to a station in the countryside through a big tree, and then he got on the train by accident and was taken to a huge station. The bus stop made Xiao Jun panic. He tried to find his family through lost and found, but found that he didn't remember the names of his parents. And once unclaimed, Jun will be taken away by a special train.
In an emergency, Xiaojun finally admitted that he was the future brother, and was immediately rescued by the future future.
The future brought Xiaojun to the family tree. Only by finding the time point that belonged to Xiaojun, can he successfully return to his father, mother and future.
The future tells Xiaojun that the big tree in the yard is the directory of the family. Everyone in the family can find their own past, present and future on it.
There, Xiaojun saw Yuko, mother and father, and even saw that the "legend" about the great grandfather was true. The lame grandfather won the grandma in the game, which started the subsequent story. If the circumstances at that time were slightly different, there would not have been the encounter between mother and father, let alone Jun and the future.
The narrative of this paragraph makes me feel particularly smooth. The protagonist and the audience open up the perspective of God together, showing the chronology that seems to be far away but is closely related to him. The birth of everyone in the family is a miracle that happens by chance. And such miracles are linked to each other, like cause and effect. Without the choices of the past, there would be no story of the present, and no possibility of the future. This in turn confirms the uniqueness of the family.
And this is always diluted by the trivialities of daily life. Those days of arguing and crying in the movie seem so annoying and exhausting, but once they grow up, they can always make people laugh when they look back. The big reason why I like this movie is because I, like Xiaojun, welcomed a new family member at an age when I was not very sensible. The little boy who always quarrels with me, but the older I get, the more I feel that the only one between me and him, although it may not be all happy memories, but because of him, and my father and mother, I To be able to more confirm their existence.
The beginning of life is a miracle. It's also a miracle to be able to be each other's family.
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