The bureaucracy's tediousness and inefficiency, and the casual memories evoked by the old, outline the regrets, happiness, and numbness of the first half of his life, as well as the fact that he was out of place for his son's upbringing, along with the physical fragmentation of the family and the arrival of cancer, Watanabe. life is about to change.
The writer took him through a life experience he had not experienced. Life is so beautiful; love is so beautiful, before he got cancer, he never really lived, or in other words, really lived for himself. The girl is life and vitality, Watanabe's last straw in drowning, he seems to be reborn in the hotel's birthday song, Watanabe starts to do things, but under the suppression of the bureaucracy, his credit goes to Vice City However, he died in the park he built. The disgust of the dead bureaucrats in the world is exactly the same. The crying spirit of Heijiang residents can tell the back of the heart. Ironically, Watanabe's son can't squeeze a single tear and can hardly speak, because the one in the photo The man named father is a stranger. "There are also good people in the government, but they will change after working for a long time." This is the finishing touch of the second half. After the drunkenness, the crowd was enthusiastic, and everyone shouted to inherit the spirit of Watanabe. However, after sobering up, everything was business as usual. flattened. The desire to live in the whole system and society is surging secretly, and the swing that Watanabe has swayed on is swaying in the laughter of children. Will the next generation be okay?
In fact, the group portraits in the second half describe the process of Watanabe's construction of the park, and it is a Rashomon, but the outline of the image of this Rashomon is gradually converging. The rhythm is a little procrastinated, simplify it, and it would be better to have less words. But it is these words that make this group of small bureaucrats seem so ironic from self-defense, to respecting Watanabe, and finally to their actions as always.
Akira Kurosawa's greatest movie is like that.
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