The original work "Mediocre" is a transformation of Furuya's work from a spoof to a realistic theme. It is resolutely summarized: the fall of an ordinary high school student. The author treats his characters coldly, serious, and even a little paranoid. Under the background of daily reality, the cruel fate is used as a clue, and the characters themselves appear fragile and powerless; the inner world of the characters is peeled off layer by layer by the sharp blade of fate, the hard part of the heart is shattered and beaten, and gradually exposed Completely helpless, the "underground world" he helped us open is something people don't want to see. At this time, the characters seem to have become one with the author. Going down the dark steps into the inner abyss, this paranoid journey is suffocating ,despair. So this kind of gray, grim comic with a discussion of human nature is really thankless, because it tells and analyzes the "disaster" of ordinary people.
Synopsis of the film: After the 311 tsunami and earthquake, Yuichi Suida, a 15-year-old high school student who wants to live an ordinary life, lives with his mother, who runs a boat rental facility. Several refugees who have lost their homes are temporarily living around the Shuitajia boat rental yard. Keiko Chazawa, at the age of 15, her dream is to support each other with her beloved and spend a lifetime together. She has a good impression of the mature teenager Sumita who is different from other classmates and actively contacts her. Despite Sumita's resistance to her, the distance between the two is shrinking. However, such daily life, one day, suddenly drove in an unexpected direction... The appearance of Sumita's father, the degenerate father would beat Sumida every time, and hoped that his son would "drown" early so that he could get the insurance money ; The mother also ran away with the middle-aged man; the debt collector gangs squeezed Sumita, who was in the third year of junior high and was alone, but Chazawa and refugee friends have been encouraging and supporting him. When his heart was gradually melted by everyone, fate pushed Sumita into the abyss again. Sumita killed his father. He was in complete despair. Blade of. A boy who gave up his dreams and hopes and stepped into the dark abyss and a girl who only believed in love. Can the two overcome despair and see the light called hope again? The end of the film is happy, Sumita walks out of the abyss. Maybe it's the reason why the movie should be seen by more people. This ending is completely different from the original, so the story itself has become two separate genres: comedy and tragedy. The film introduces the post-disaster society in Japan as a background, so that the meaning of the film is raised to the social level, cheering up people after the disaster, trying to reinvigorate people's spirits, such a sense of social responsibility seems to be in many types of films that describe young people. can manifest. The core part of the film: how to face natural disasters, how to face the injustice of fate, and where to go for the people of the island country.
The performance of the two young people can be said to be a performance with all his strength. Someya Shota showed the stubbornness of the character. He firmly believes in the values he has established himself. Troubled 'scum'!". Until he couldn't face his scum father, he also became the 'scumbag' who was inferior to mediocrity. His values and understanding are shaky, and he stubbornly protects his last defense of self-worth. In "The Bonus Life", this stubbornness prompted man to add a glorious self-redemption on the road of self-destruction, and his absurd acts for heaven did not make him feel more relieved. Instead, it was the warm help of refugee friends and Cha Ze that made him weak and hesitant. The weakness at this time is valuable for health, and it can also destroy his self-worth of destructive tendencies.
The crumbling life has fallen into happiness in the warm words again and again. On that night his vision of the future seemed to seize happiness, until the bullet was not in the head, but in the air. Another journey of redemption for mankind, luckily the structure of the herringbone is mutually supportive. At the end, Chazawa accompanies Sumita to the police station to surrender himself to the positive and sunny ending. Although it is different from the ending of the comics, it is different from the character creation of the original work. But as an earthling who lacks positive energy, an earthling who lacks positive psychology research papers, and an earthling who lacks happiness... He has conquered himself. For a desperate person, choosing to live requires more courage, This is invaluable! According to the description of the original work: the gunshots sounded, the heroine opened her eyes...the washing machine hiding the revolver...the sun was in the sky...a young man fell into the grass...and at this time, it was us who were shot, and there were only endless people left. Despair and darkness.
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