Here let me introduce his expression method: 1. At the beginning of the film, a girl from Dalian, China appears in a big company, and there is a dialogue saying that she is fluent in Japanese and very capable.
2. The actor of the film, who held a high position in the company, received a dismissal notice after that.
3. That night, when he went home, he did not enter through the gate, but climbed the window. He did not tell his wife and two sons that he was unemployed. After that, he wore a tie and jacket as usual to "work" every day, went to the park to get relief meals to eat, and went to the job center to line up.
4. The family lives next to the railway. Usually, they only hear the noise of the tram passing by, and there is no joy. When eating at the same table, there is no dialogue. After the male head of household lost his job, the atmosphere was naturally a little more tense.
5. The wife was in the park and saw her husband queuing up for relief lunch, but she did not ask. In this family, everyone silently maintains the "crab" situation.
6. (The youngest son finds his own way out) The youngest son found a piano keyboard in the garbage dump on the side of the road, and used it to practice fingering in his spare time. One day, he told his parents that he wanted to learn piano from a private teacher, but his father did not support him. The disappointed younger son secretly took the lunch fee that was originally going to be paid to the school, paid it to a private piano teacher near his residence, and learned the piano with her.
7. (The eldest son also finds a way out) The eldest son yearns for the United States. He actually agrees that the United States is in trouble, and he responds to the call to become a volunteer army and follow the US military to the battlefield in Iraq. He asked his parents to sign it, but the parents objected, and the son fought with his father.
8. The wife herself also has desires. One day, she saw a new car in the car showroom and admired it very much.
9. The unemployed male protagonist is at home as usual, drinking beer and watching TV all night. The screen says: Today China is a big coal producing country, ranking second in the world.
Later, the male protagonist returned to work and cleaned in a large department store, but he still looked at his family and went out in a suit every day. During the period, the eldest son went to Iraq, and the younger son learned the piano successfully.
10. The most critical scene in the movie: The wife finally met her husband who was a cleaner in a department store. At that moment, she was stunned and completely at a loss. She didn't want to face such a cruel reality and ran away from the scene. The scene is very clever. Before, she just met a gangster outside the door of the department store, and then met her husband who was cleaning outside the bathroom door. When she ran away from the scene, she just let the gangster pull her into the new car, and she did not resist. In this way, she and a strange man got into the new car that she had long admired, galloped to the suburbs, and spent the night at the seaside.
11. The male protagonist who was knocked down by his wife was also in a daze. He was walking on the road in the dark night. He was hit by a car.
12. That night, no one was at home. At the beginning of a new day, everyone returned home, as if nothing had happened, and everyone clearly had "remembered" and "obtained". The wife is willing to continue to do housework; the eldest son comes back from the war in Iraq and has a new understanding of the United States. He believes that the United States is not completely right. The family got together for dinner again.
13. On this day, the youngest son will play the piano at the school, so the whole family is neatly dressed and goes to school together. The beautiful piano performance of the younger son, like the Tokyo Sonata, just describes the story of today's Tokyo in many ways. At the end of the film, the whole family seemed to have a bright future, and the sound of the piano became more and more beautiful.
This film depicts the unemployment situation in Tokyo in 2008. It not only presents the characteristics of the times (the rise of China, the unfairness of the United States to Iraq), but also vividly depicts the heart of the unemployed man's wife, which can make the wife satisfy the desire that has been hidden in her heart for a long time. Go out to the countryside with a (unfamiliar) man in a new car and spend the night by the sea. This romantic experience freed women from harsh reality and indulged in a night of indulgence, which made this socially realistic film stand out as a masterpiece of the times.
In addition, it is different in that it describes the difficult times of the society, and does not forget to encourage children to learn music, which makes people feel warmer, and the tragic plot also weaves people's dreams, and makes the people in the play grow in wisdom. Even family relations have improved. A happy family gives people confidence in the future of the world. (over)
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