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Not only did the warning letter of death not pull Watanabe into the river of death, it pushed him to the other side of life.
Martin Heidegger once said that being-towards-death existence and death are intertwined. It is precisely because of death that existence is highlighted. People are thrown into situations such as family and society, and Dasein is troubled by things. When you are troubled by things and forget your true state, only when Dasein is cut off from the future by death can you get back to your true state and take responsibility for yourself. This is living toward death.
The narration preached Watanabe's death from the very beginning, and pronounced Watanabe's ending in an absolute sense, but aren't people the death sentenced from the beginning? Watanabe is repeating a meaningless life in a bureaucratic institution. The director has put a lot of effort into the absurdity of the institution at the beginning, kicking balls one department after another, accumulating a mountain of documents, very much in the castle of Kafka's novels. The portrayal of the story contrasts the helplessness and helplessness of ordinary citizens, and it is precisely this that lays the groundwork for the subsequent promotion of the plot. It is worth mentioning that they sent the citizens to say that Section Chief Watanabe was taking a break. This is a foreshadowing and also means that they still put the problem on Watanabe. This is the sinking state of people.
The director can be said to be very hands-on in the promotion of the scene and the coordination of the music. After Watanabe learned the news of his terminal illness, he walked out of the station and the movie was filled with a large number of vehicles and sounds. The camera zooms out to highlight Watanabe's sense of powerlessness at this time with an image contrast. Such a large amount of information is displayed through the processing of the camera instead of being directly revealed. The sense of directness brought by the metaphor makes the picture and sound go beyond language and become us. direct feelings.
After returning home, Watanabe prayed for his son's comfort and was kicked out of his son's room. He looked at his wife's portrait and began to recall his son's various past from his wife's death. Here Watanabe regards his son as his last value. Bian didn't get the response he wanted, and the collapse overwhelmed him. In the end, when people have no escape, they finally get out of the sinking. The most terrible thing is not death, but that I can't remember what I did before dying. There is no way to say frankly that I have no regrets in this life, but Except for the money, I have not accumulated anything, so what can I get back for the money that symbolizes the accumulation of my own years in these 30 years? And it brought death.
Watanabe said that he had never drank like this in 30 years. It was very happy but also very painful. Such contradictions and low emotions accelerated his death through consumption, and the things he desperately maintained brought death. Things in exchange for his own accelerated death, such a vent such a lonely pain that Watanabe yearns for a kind of relief.
The interesting part is still, the novelist said he was going to be a demon tonight, this dialogue reminds me of Faust, everything is implied coincidence.
On the night when the novelist took Watanabe, Watanabe's restrained form resembled that of a newborn child, full of curiosity and fear. He seemed so out of place, surrounded by the flowers of life that were blooming rapidly and violently, but he was about to wither, like a dead leaf being sent by the wind into a fiery bush. It is worth noting that Watanabe has always been curious about his hat. Except for the arrangement of the plot, it should be a metaphor for Watanabe's accumulated 30 years of image, and the hat is the 30 years he has followed step by step.
And in the stripper, Watanabe felt youth and life strongly, he longed for such a thing, so he suddenly wanted to hold that kind of life like a life-saving straw, when a woman wiped off her lipstick and took off the fake Eyelashes Watanabe suddenly couldn't stand it, he vomited, on the one hand because of his own body and on the other because he was disgusted with his state? He smiled gloomily and awkwardly at the novelist, and finally realized that he was only dealing with the novelist, and he was not happy.
Watanabe turned his needs to the vitality and vitality of the little girl. He was attracted by the strong vitality of the little girl and could not extricate himself. During this period, Watanabe was finally completely disappointed with his son. In the last conversation with the little girl, he finally understood He couldn't escape by himself, so he said what if he continued like this over there? So it's not too late to start now.
Watanabe Daigo empowered him to be so impatient and impatient, surrounded by preparations for someone's birthday, Watanabe passed someone's shoulders (who happened to be preparing for a birthday party), and suddenly the happy birthday song sounded, and Watanabe was at this moment. Really come alive and usher in his new life. The scenes and sounds here are the reflections of Watanabe's heart. Both the scene and the emotion endow such dramatic scenes with two layers of meaning, both inside and outside. Such details are to enhance the re-viewing experience of moviegoers. Once such a wealth of information is accepted, the density of information initially acceptable in many movies is even greater.
It didn't take long for the plot to suddenly switch to Watanabe and the scene of death. This kind of treatment seems to be bold today, which means that the rhythm is completely separated, and the atmosphere created before has been cut into two parts. At this time, I felt a sense of powerlessness and doubts, and this paved the way for the next development.
Later, the director used clips from different people's dictation to reshape Watanabe's image to enhance the sense of reality, while the first half of the narrative structure uses a positive chronological order, and the second half is similar to Rashomon's narrative structure. Leave a blank, as if the viewers also participated in a memorial service, because we are equal to the others in the film, and the viewers seem to be sitting quietly watching the progress of the funeral, while the It is the side profile of Watanabe's new student that he has a feeling of emptiness. He doesn't say anything but seems to say everything. What a superb skill.
In the second half, the strong narrative style of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's "In the Bamboo Forest" pushes the story to a climax. The director does not portray the greatness of Watanabe, but instead depicts the hypocrisy and ugliness of the other. The name speaks for itself.
Why did Watanabe suddenly change? Why did Watanabe suddenly change? Oh! He is like this because he has cancer, and if we are dying too, then he is nothing special! Everyone is the same. A group of people pretended to understand Watanabe and comforted each other, what did they want? In the end, they all want to justify themselves and continue to make such absurd meaninglessness.
There are shackles everywhere in the city. People are alienated into tools in machinery and numbness. In addition to sinking in their own tool attributes, they forget their value and meaning as human beings. They revel in their helplessness and passion after drinking. Keep grabbing the tail of meaning and the next day as if nothing happened, submerged in the sea of people, you think that death will lead you to meaning, in fact, you don't want to have meaning, you just need a skin of meaning to continue to deceive yourself to live. Go on, such a bureaucracy will occupy people's future and take away the possibility, just like a small cog, the more it seeks stability in it, the more it deviates from itself. But keep reminding myself that I need it and that I can't live without it.
Just like the angry man who finally sat down slowly, all he wanted was the surface of meaning, and what about Watanabe? What did he see in that snow? The park where children play with joy and vitality must be gradually imprinted in his pupils, and some songs penetrated into my ears in the snow staring at and staring at: How short is life, girl, let's fall in love before the red lips Before the color fades, before the enthusiasm becomes cold, no one knows what will happen tomorrow
Life is so short, girl, let's fall in love, before the black hair fades, before the flame of love goes out, today is gone forever I think he will say this at the end: "It's beautiful, just stop at this moment!"
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