Usually a small production can reach a certain commercial distribution, which is often an acceptable trendy work, usually a work with a certain depth of thought. Generally, there is hardly any commercial here. Gimmick. For those who like pure literature, it may be "right way".
Like this kind of work in other countries, it is a bland life story. The difference is that it takes place in Japan. Well, Japan is not like any other country Is there any difference? Of course, different cultures are based on different values and are also counteracted by the way of life in a society divided by culture, interdependent and mutually restrictive.
The interpersonal relationship in Japanese society is based on a fairly strict protocol of courtesy (PROTOCOL ) to restrict. And this is directly reflected in this work:
the protagonist was shocked when his grandmother left since he was a child. A kind of sincere interpersonal relationship. Then he fell in love with the boy next door and got married and had children. The couple is very emotional. Simple Life is enriched by the abundance of emotions. Through the film, you can see the typical interpersonal relationships in the ordinary class of contemporary society in the urban area of Osaka: family, friendship and neighbor/colleague relationship.
When the protagonist's husband is run over on the train track When it was crushed, the pain of the protagonist was deep. But after being introduced by a neighbor, she took her young son to a remote area (it seems to be Hokkaido, or did not explain or missed it) to marry another one in her life. Man.
This is probably more difficult to imagine in the contemporary West. At this point, the first difference in contemporary Japan has emerged.
In a rural town with traditional lifestyles and values, the protagonist initially has some cultural differences to adapt to: just arriving at the station, his strange husband is late for work, making him wait at the train station. He has just received her and must return to work immediately , leaving her and her son at a home they had never been to. Her husband's father, a retired fisherman, told her "forgivingly" that she would rest today and visit her neighbors tomorrow. The next day, she went to meet and introduce one by one. .But in order to formally introduce the new protagonist to the neighbors, many neighbors were invited to drink. At the wine table, there were old neighbors who volunteered to welcome the protagonist with traditional Japanese songs. The whole table immediately gave high fives. Although the protagonist is the economic lower class of the big city I grew up in middle school, but in a big city after all, I don't know anything about this kind of living habit of playing with palms, so I can't do anything.
As for the new husband's little daughter who is a few years old, the protagonist just said lightly: "From today onwards I will be your new mother!" The little girl smiled and nodded in acceptance. Then the reorganization of a new family proceeded logically. Life has new members but follows the original operating mechanism of the husband's family. The children are very harmonious. The two couples also live naturally.
What I realized after reading this work is that the various courtesy agreements stipulated by Japanese society for their members are the social basis for them/them to be able to clarify their obligations to each other.
This The transplanted life should be a big challenge in the contemporary West. The ordinary and peaceful life of the Japanese contemporary lower society in the works is enviable, but I dare not experience it. After all, I am not Japanese and have no such values. The system is the foundation.
In short, the work successfully describes the life of the lower groups in contemporary Japanese society, giving outsiders an opportunity to think: Compared with the society and culture we live in, which one is more in line with us?
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