The time span of "Deeper Than the Sea" is only the coming and going of two typhoons. The English translation of "After the storm" means that the future of the protagonist will be sunny. With the peculiar effect of the dialogue between the characters that the director is good at, the captured scenes of these few days have a further length of time, and are subtlely perceived by the audience, as if a family is from the beginning of the life of the parents to the adulthood of the children and their old age. Go all included.
For example, when the storm was raging, the mother and son talked about how they hid in the church to avoid the typhoon and their friends when they were young, and lived in a house with narrow floors for nearly 40 years. A bit of a sense of loss but actually safe in life. Hearing this, the son had to answer embarrassedly: "You son is useless". The mother's long-awaited hope for her son, and the son's efforts in career attempts have been unsuccessful in middle age. This group of dialogues that pulls the deepest memories is the most touching. And when his mother was watering an orange tree on the balcony, the son remembered that the orange tree that never bore fruit was bought by his mother when he was in high school, and he was stunned that it was still alive and healthy. The writing is not heavy, but it is as strong as "there is a loquat tree in the hall, and the pavilion is now like a cover".
I wrote an article before saying that Hirokazu-eda's works are always related to "death". This is also the beginning of "Bihai". Many novelists played by Hiro Abe died of his father who did not give him too many warm memories. Everyone seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. The widowed mother was reluctant to make new friends, feeling it was just increasing the number of funerals. Although he said that the days were relaxed and quiet, he often felt that her husband was in the butterfly and had a conversation with her. They have lived for more than fifty years, and the distance opened by death is actually very small, because most people live in memories when they are old.
Many people can't be relieved that they disagree with his father on the choice of life path, and feel resentment that his father has not read the novels written by him until his death. Later, however, he learned that his father carefully stored his first edition of the book, proudly distributing it to the surrounding neighbors. This plot is exactly the same as the national epic drama "Eternal Sanchome Sunset". No matter how bad the son is, there is always something that will make his father proud. The father often hides it implicitly, as if deliberately making his son recall mixed feelings.
Many grew up like this and embarked on a career path that betrayed his father. Life is not good, in order to pay maintenance on time, borrow money to gamble on racing cars, and default on debts. He took over the work of detective and original comics that he didn't like, and was cruelly judged by his ex-wife as "not suitable for starting a family". Such men are everywhere around us, and they may also be our parents, our future self, which seems to be the fate of most men. Dreams can be realized by a few people after all, the goodness and innocence in their hearts are worn away, and they are discouraged and confused. It seems that they can't completely blame them for not working hard enough. It is really like what Li Zongsheng sang: "I couldn't understand before, how could life be? difficult."
The setbacks in life and the deviation from ideals can easily knock them down. But this kind of self-sinking is more of a loss of direction for them. The original goal of orderly progress has been muddled by the chaos that has broken in again and again, and the clarity is not clear. When a person is young, a person can use the humble dream to get warm, but when the fire of the dream fades and there is no other substitute, it is a very miserable and extremely cold fate. A man will one day need to treat the world rightly and casually. Promised big words.
"Where did my life begin to be abnormal"? Many apparently did not get the answer. Perhaps it is only when people establish relationships with other people that they will find that dreams will silently change their goals and become detached from the individual, or that it will eventually burn for the family they set up. Unfortunately, his ideal fire failed to warm To others will perish. The ex-wife who is committed to reality said: "When you are an adult, you can't live by love alone." It's like judging the truth that a childhood sweetheart's lover enters a life that requires cooperation and finally breaks up in a tragic way. A lot of people who feel helpless are deeply confused, but there is no refutation. Husbands should provide the basic conditions for a family to continue, but they are easily accused by their wives of Peter Pan-like unwillingness to grow up and face up to reality when they encounter difficulties.
What the wife doesn't understand is that in the husband's world, if there is no love and family ties, he may have lost his purpose long ago, and he will be bored in the repetition and boredom every day. There are too many people in the world. With the help of alcohol and bad temper, he escaped everything that life throws at him. In the rainy night that takes up half of the film, many spend a short time with their ex-wife and son. Turning to the last scene, many let their wives and children go to the subway station, and the background gives people an incomparable strength to forge ahead. For the people he loves, he needs to be firmer and harder, and it will be more difficult, but this is the greatest blessing for him.
The song of a failed man rehearses that we will eventually become waste wood one day, but fortunately, there is nowhere to relax, and it is also tightening our hearts to not breed waste wood. Waste wood still has a tenacious belief in a better life, such a man will always be respectable and equally lovely. The belief in life exists in the family, and the close relationship between people is the weapon against real problems.
A complete family is even more complete in the eyes of the elderly mother. The mother's professional household, Shu Xilin, pours two glasses of milk at home alone and puts it in the refrigerator. Compared with the film, the aftertaste can not help but sour. How she longed for her son to come home often to dig shaved ice with her in the cool summer evening, and chat for a long time. At this age, she was looking forward to more accidents in life, such as a typhoon passing through the rainstorm, the visit of her son's ex-wife, she was happy and hurriedly prepared meals, and asked her to stay overnight, and cut out the pictures when her son was born. The umbilical cord was given to her to tie a family to her.
NHK has paid attention to the increasingly serious "missing" of Japanese society with the development of modernization (refer to Shanghai Translation Publishing House of "Undestined Society"). Young people can live alone without social circles, and the elderly die in the house for weeks without anyone noticing that they are disconnected from everyone. The concept of family is weak, and colleagues in the workplace do not have the deep friendship that supports each other. The interpersonal relationships that used to be familiar to each other in the countryside have disappeared in urban life. Although this has reduced the conflicts and disputes caused by relationship connection and reunion, the potential terrible problems have also become increasingly prominent. "Deeper Than the Sea" also touches on this kind of pervasive fear in many places, the way my mother thinks of dying without causing trouble, the lonely death incidents talked about by passers-by... People are not only alienated, but even After all, many detective offices are in charge of capturing the cheating of husbands and wives in order to put them at a disadvantage in the event of a divorce.
The title of "Deeper Than the Sea" comes from Teresa Teng's Japanese single "Premonition of Parting": Deeper than the sea, bluer than the sky. I don't love your tricks more deeply than this (Baidu Encyclopedia). In the movie, it was read by her mother. She was afraid of the lack of life, and the solution she thought of was "never love someone more than the sea." By shooting this subject, I also insist that the various levels of problems arising from interpersonal alienation in modern society can only be alleviated through the family, and emotional tolerance and integrity are important to a person. The family is not only the spiritual pillar behind the aging parents, but also the place where we live in ordinary life when it is difficult to obtain a seat in the survival game of the workplace.
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