You can be the person you want to be, but you can't let yourself give up chasing your dreams; nothing is deeper than the sea, so we have been alive and looking for happiness every day.

Dwight 2022-04-17 09:01:13

After reading "Seaside Diary" and then watching "Deeper than the Sea", I am more familiar with Hirokazu Kore-eda's expression techniques. The story is close to the real life at the bottom of Japan. I think when I was in college, after reading Haruki Murakami's novels, I also had the idea of ​​becoming a novelist. Because when I feel hesitant about future employment and life, I plunge into Murakami's novels, giving people a kind of tranquil comfort. Here I have to mention Haruki Murakami again. Although he has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature many times, his best-selling novels are indeed popular. He found a literary expression that audiences loved. Haruki Murakami opened a bar after graduating from university. But because the business of the bar has improved later, he wrote novels while writing. The first novel won an award, and the road went smoothly afterward, and because he himself came from a middle-class family, in order to gain creative inspiration, listen to classical music, and travel to Europe, his works rarely felt the love of his family from his family. The scolding for not doing the right thing, and the cold eyes of his friends around him. At the same time, his married life is still happy.

However, life is realistic. If you want to find a good-looking and ideal wife, you always have to pursue stability. Sometimes your life efforts are not enough, and you have to look at the man's family conditions. When the male protagonist puts a sticky note on the wall and asks himself why my life is like this. He used Hemingway's way of finding inspiration to write, through personal life experience, to write what others can't see. Most writers are like this, not only did they fail to write decent works, but they made themselves poor all their lives. However, this type of novelist has the courage to give up the pursuit of stability. Civil servants are a sign of stability. They take their own life as a bet and become a writer wholeheartedly. And how many novelists in the world write as a sideline, have a steady job, and make time to write. If you can achieve it, you won't lose it if you don't. As discussed by the mother and son in the film, living up to now, I don't know what my father is pursuing in this life, and maybe he doesn't know it himself. Attributing the failure of my life to the lack of opportunities in this era.

The best performance was not given to Hiroshi Abe, and my evaluation was given to Shirin Shulin, that is, many mothers. Filmed in 2016, died in 2018. In less than 2 years, there is a feeling about my life: as I get older and weaker and weaker, I am also a person who is about to die; how can there be an immortal person in this world, the current house is Better than the original, but I didn't expect to live for 40 years. The most profound thing about this film is that it allowed me to see the living conditions of the people at the bottom of Japan, and it also allowed me to see their strengths. The powerful people at the bottom have a dream to pursue, even if they are ravaged by life, they still remain optimistic and strong. Through this movie, I learned that Calpis is a Japanese national drink. I seem to have drunk it before, but I don't feel very good, but it is the favorite of Japanese real estate citizens.

The father in the film is the same as the father in "Haijie Diary". He confessed his death at the beginning of the film, and not a single scene appeared. But through the conversation, getting along and communicating with children and family members. It was as if he saw the image of his father. My father is like many others. He likes to buy lottery tickets and even gamble. He has nothing to do all his life. He wanted to be a civil servant when he was young, but he did not become the person he wanted to be, but he was full of pursuits in life. Father loves a lot. I quarreled with him when I wanted to be a writer, and I was excited for my son when I wrote the first work. Even the last game was set up by the father for his son. He sold almost everything in his life at the pawnshop, but there was no ink grinder, so he had to get a lot of signatures. Just thinking that one day my son will be forced by life, but don't give up your dream of pursuing life. Yes, dreams are a good thing, and now I am in the system, and I am neither rich nor poor. Being called to and fro every day, this movie is inspiring me to be who I want to be, but I can’t let myself give up chasing my dreams. There is nothing deeper than the sea, so we have been alive, looking for happiness every day.

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After the Storm quotes

  • Shinoda Ryôta: The lottery isn't gambling.

    Shiraishi Kyôko: Of course it is.

    Shinoda Ryôta: No, it is not.

    Shiraishi Kyôko: What is it, then?

    Shinoda Ryôta: It's a dream. A dream you buy for 300 Yen.

  • Shinoda Ryôta: I'm not... who I want to be yet. But, you know, it doesnt matter whether I've become what I wanted. What matters is to live my life trying to become what I want to be.