The economic depression in Japan in the film is not China in the future? Those anxious middle-aged people, isn't it the future you and me?
Before I reached middle age, I already realized the anxiety of middle age. This anxiety is reflected in the fact that how much money I earn is not enough to spend, and the burden of the whole family is on me alone.
Under such circumstances, even a little change in a family may destroy the fragile family. Whether it's unemployment or illness, rising prices or a stock market crash, just a little bit of volatility can completely change a family's life.
I always thought that as long as I wanted to live a good life, I couldn't have a bad life. But in the context of the overall Great Depression, as isolated individuals, we really cannot swim against the tide. Without experiencing hardship, I am afraid we will never be able to imagine the harm that hardship can bring.
In the era that my father lived through, no one paid much attention to education. He dropped out of junior high school and began to rely on physical strength to make money very early. Working in the construction team, producing bricks in a brick factory, carrying cement in a cement factory... Almost all the hard work in my hometown was done by my father himself.
As a child I didn't think there was anything wrong with this, because almost all the grown men in the village did this kind of thing. But if you work hard, you will eat young rice. If you get older, you can have accidents.
When I was in the third and fourth grade of elementary school, a series of diseases caused by labor, such as a herniated lumbar disc and bone spurs, found my father together. The family, which was originally warm, harmonious, and financially acceptable, suddenly fell into darkness. To treat the disease, my father spent all the family's savings, and he was unable to work and earn money for several years.
The family of three can only live on the salary of the mother working in the garment factory. As a man, as the head of the family, and as the pillar of the family, the father must be uncomfortable.
I can't imagine my father's mood at that time, after all, I'm not him. In order to make money, my father thought about raising sheep, but my family was surrounded by other people. Even though the vegetable garden had been leveled and a sheep pen was built, I finally gave up this plan because the smell of raising sheep was too great.
Later, my father collected the junk for a period of time. At that time, I thought it was very interesting, but I didn't feel the humiliation that my father would inevitably have in his heart. It's not that I despise collecting waste, but this profession is a profession that is despised by others.
My father said that he picked up trash and rode a tricycle around the streets to collect junk, but he only mentioned these things lightly and never said anything in depth. Collecting rubbish can not bring stable income, and later my father went to work as a security guard.
In his forties, few people in the village work as security guards at this age, but his waist injury makes his father unable to work hard. What else can he do if he is not a security guard?
This security guard has been around for more than ten years. Since then, his father has changed countless units, but his identity as a security guard has never changed. Now that my father is over fifty-five years old, this young man in the village, as long as he has no culture, is a young man who relies on physical labor to earn money to support his family, and almost all of them go to work as security guards.
But more than ten years ago, when my father was in front of the security guard, when he saw that they could still earn several times their own salary by physical strength, I was afraid that he had mixed feelings. I think in the early days when my father collected junk and became a security guard, he must have felt very lonely.
Everyone wants face, even if it doesn't matter, who really doesn't care about the feelings of others?
It is difficult for girlfriends to understand that the wealthy boss and his wife commit suicide together in the film. In fact, I can understand the reasons for their suicide. The once prosperous life suddenly fell into trouble. What about the mortgage? What about car loan? What about children's education? What should I do if my elderly parents get sick and care for the elderly?
Incomprehensible, everything is incomprehensible. In the face of an unsolvable future, what else can be done except to escape with death?
In fact, the director did not deliberately magnify the suffering of ordinary people. I believe that the real reality is far more cruel than the world shown in film and television. In the face of adversity, not everyone can live strong, and not everyone can enjoy the hardships.
But even so, this is still not the reason for our pessimistic disappointment and negative life. It may be too hard to face a difficult situation, but I still think it is more difficult to live than to die (well... writing this, I may feel that it is more difficult to live).
I can't make up my own opinion, I think I can understand those who committed suicide, and I can understand the collapse of the protagonist's family on that day. Everyone has a day when they are overwhelmed by life, so this requires us to live more wonderfully within the time we can control.
I saw a quote from Nietzsche two days ago (hopefully what he said): "Every day that never dances with the wind is a disappointment to life." Live happier, at least every day you want to live, Just make yourself happy. Otherwise, when we really get to the day when we are crushed by life, there may really be nothing to remember.
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2018.10.16
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