This is Director Hirokazu Kore-eda's last work and my favorite so far.
It is said that the director wrote on the title page of the script, "We will never be the adults we want to be."
Many of the protagonists played by Hiro Abe are a little boyish middle-aged waste wood, sloppy clothes, sloppy, living in a small apartment that can't pay the rent, depressed but unwilling to give up the dream of becoming a novelist. Divorced from his wife because he was addicted to gambling, he could not afford the alimony of 50,000 yen per month, and he could only get together with his son once a month. Every time I go back to my widowed mother's house, I rummage through boxes, and live off some of the relics left by my pawn father. It is such a person who failed in the mundane sense to the end, relying on an unremarkable novel novel author award he won when he was young, stubbornly supporting his literary dream, and rejecting the arrangement of the publishing house, although it can make money but has no literary value. writing tasks.
The main line of the story takes place on the day of reunion with my son every month. At the beginning of the film, it is announced that the typhoon is about to land. As the plot progresses, the typhoon approaches the city step by step. By chance, the son gathered at his mother's house.
However, it was such a night, despite the storm outside the window, the family was crowded in the hut without too much drama, just calmly cooking, eating, gossiping, there was a kind of doomsday but calm warmth.
The ex-wife complained, "So if you want to be a good dad, why didn't you work hard when we were together?"
The son asked a lot of what kind of person did you want to be when you were a child? Did you make it? A lot of embarrassment, "I....haven't succeeded yet. However, this is not a question of taking it or not. The important thing is whether you live with such a belief."
When my mother learned that her ex-wife had decided to start a new life, she casually chatted with a lot of people, "Happiness can only be obtained by giving up something. I have never said that I love anyone deeper than the sea at this age. Ordinary people don’t have it, so people can live happily every day. This thing in life is actually very simple.”
The next day, the typhoon passed, the rain passed, and the weather cleared. The family waved goodbye at the station. It seems that there is no story to tell, but it seems to tell everything in the world.
Many have asked themselves, "When did my life go wrong?"
Probably everyone will ask themselves a similar question at some point. Did you do it in your ideal adult world when you were a child? Is there still a chance? Since when did you give up?
I saw a passage recently, "When you are old and look back on your life, you will find that when you go abroad to study, when you decide to do your first job, and when you choose a partner and fall in love, it's actually a great change in fate. It was just that at that time Standing at a fork in the road and seeing the situation, the day you made your choice, in the diary, was quite dull and ordinary. At that time, I thought it was an ordinary day in life, but a great change has happened, and the earth is shaking. I didn't realize it, it was just normal at the time."
Some people say that the older you get, the more you believe in fate, but I'm more willing to believe that everything is about choice. Don't resent your choices, and don't easily deny your ideals. After all, there has never been a perfect life, and people who are too stubborn are never qualified to regret.
On the last day of the thirty-two years old, I stopped the time with a glass of wine, looked back at the moments when I made a decision, or regretted or grateful or simply annihilated in my memory, trying to recall those who stood at the fork in the road, I was determined at that time The appearance of this is to support the loneliness that I keep walking at the moment. In this less than ideal moment, I continue to live my life with ideals.
I say to my tomorrow self, "Happy birthday, forever young, always with tears in my eyes."
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