I'm not a movie watcher. Therefore, when I caught a glimpse of the text related to "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko" in several different places (including Jianshu) these days, I expected that this 2006 film must be related to me. There is a fate as small as a mustard seed.
After reading Matsuko's life, I can't help but think of another classic "Forrest Gump" that chronicles the personal life course. Forrest Gump and Matsuko, the two heroines and heroines with similar eras and different environments have experienced two lives that are mirror images of each other.
Forrest Gump's life started low and walked high, all the way forward. In the non-stop running, he ran into the university, ran into a star, ran through the war... In the end, he not only made himself a winner in life, but also led Jenny to recover the wandering soul and inspired Lieutenant Dan Brighten up a bleak life.
On the other hand, Matsuko Kawajiri's life was just the opposite. From the beginning, the beautiful and kind middle school teacher with a decent career has declined all the way. He was "disgusted" again and again, and repeatedly asked alone in despair, "Why?!" He
was also running away, running. Forrest Gump's leg recovered, but Songzi's leg was lame. In the end, Forrest Gump can sit at the bus stop and guess what the next chocolate will taste like, while Pine Nuts can only live in the garbage heap all day and look forward to the idol's echo.
Both films use the same technique - both remind people of the passage of time with news events on TV.
Forrest Gump has witnessed almost every major historical event in the United States over the decades. Negroes had him when they went to college, accepted Kennedy to meet him, Vietnam War heroes had him, even ping pong diplomacy had him. He stumbled and became part of history. Forrest Gump has always been strutting in the mainstream of society, while Jenny, who he never forgets, is drifting with the crowd in the non-mainstream crowd at the same time. But in the end, the two paths converged. As for Matsuko, the oil crisis, the spacewalk, the Heisei era, the fall of the Berlin Wall, all the news on TV is just the noise of the room in her unbearable memories. She will always be just an insignificant audience in front of the TV. Even if she is watching astronauts travel in space, all she thinks about is flying to space with Aaron, staying together, and having a child.
Since childhood, his father left more care to his sick sister, so Matsuko struggled with the desire to be loved and the fear of loneliness all his life. And none of the men in her life could carry her most humble expectations. In the end, she could only be knocked to the ground by Aaron. Some people say that the tragedy of Matsuko is a tragedy caused by society to women. At least after being released from prison, Matsuko can live independently with her hairdressing skills, so why should she find a man?
Indeed, if Forrest Gump was not a man, his luck would be greatly reduced. Think about it, in order for the child to go to school, Forrest Gump's mother had to sleep with the wretched principal, and Matsuko was also coerced by the wretched dean and took off her shirt; Jenny, who was chasing her music dream, reluctantly found the men in the audience Only interested in her nakedness, and Matsuko can only get a job by stripping herself naked in front of the bath shop owner without hesitation.
So, Forrest Gump is lucky, he just has to run hard without having to endure the extra pain his mother and Jenny endured by sex. Compared with Forrest Gump, as a woman, Pine Nuts is not as lucky. She has to bear everything by herself.
Come to think of it, if Jenny's life was made into a movie, she would be another pine nuts. They love to sing as much, and they keep moving around in the world. In the end, when people reach middle age, one of them died of illness and the other died violently. The cruelty of women in this world is still more than that of men.
But it is always easiest and frivolous to blame the so-called "society" as the source of the tragedy. If everything stops at this level, it will weaken the color of tragedy. Since the time of King Oedipus, the deepest core of tragedy is not these external objects that can be described, but the despairing and uncontrollable-destiny.
Forrest Gump made it clear that her IQ was low, and Matsuko's head wasn't very smart--it was evident from the way she handled the theft. In addition, the personalities of the two protagonists are also very similar: they both have a single tendon to stick to. Forrest Gump only knows how to run, and pine nuts only need love. Aside from gender differences, what are the reasons why similar people can't have similar lives?
Let's zoom in, from the abstract society to the concrete people. If Forrest Gump's mother wasn't so determined and resolute, what if Matsuko's father could give her a little more smile? If Forrest Gump hadn't invited him to sit next to the angelic Jenny when he stepped on the school bus for the first time, what if Aaron, who stole the money, admitted his mistake immediately? If Forrest Gump didn't know Babu who was thinking about shrimp fishing all day when he was a soldier, what if the barber shop owner had been waiting for Songzi to be released from prison to reunite with her? Even, what if there were no gang of bad boys wandering around when Matsuko went to pick up the business card in the end? If this, if that, what will happen?
If the process of life is running a program, then personality is each person's unique code. The so-called fate is the input file given to this program - it is like the box of chocolate candies in Forrest Gump's hand, which is always random and unpredictable. And we, after writing the program in a hurry, don't have much time to debug. We have to use this program, bite the bullet, and run it until the final answer is given.
Everyone's code is bound to have bugs. Forrest Gump was lucky, the input data he got just bypassed the bug, and finally the program ran smoothly and gave a satisfactory answer. Some people are like pine nuts, they are bothered by countless bugs every step of the way, and finally they can only crash and exit until they are forcibly shut down.
Behind all encounters, there is some inexplicable fate. Similar Forrest Gump and Songzi met different people, so they wrote very different lives. Because all the fates are superimposed together, it is the fate of heaven.
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