#英語#The gloom under urban civilization

I'm still very interested in Furugu's comics. I read the original book roughly N years ago, and I was looking forward to knowing that "The Mediocre" was made into a movie. I didn't actually review the original comics before watching the movie, so I almost forgot many plots and details. The only thing I know is that the world described in the comics is very dark and extreme. Sure enough, the movie opens with a feeling of suffocation.

The background of the film version is set after the 311 earthquake, people were displaced, and many people lost their homes, relatives and even their lives. In this large environment rendering, the tone of the whole movie appears abnormally dark and helpless. Usually under this setting, many Japanese comics promote love and hope, but "Mediocre" is very paranoid to despair and extremes. The protagonist Sumita is cursed by a drunk father and abandoned by his mother; he is persecuted by his mother every day to commit suicide. Characters such as Chazawa, who lost everything in the earthquake and took risks in order to help the protagonist, are all telling the helplessness of this society. The feeling of the movie is even more depressing and uncomfortable to watch. In the film, there are many scenes of going mad or even hurting people in public places, which further expresses the director's deep thinking on the current social situation in Japan. This generation seems to be rich and civilized, but its heart is so fragile and helpless. Those crazy people in the film keep shouting "Who am I", which is actually what the protagonist Sumita thinks, and perhaps it is also a lot of nowadays. What people think in this indifferent society is "Who am I" - what role do I play in this society? Probably because of the lack of human self-form in today's civilized society.

The protagonist's mental breakdown and desperate behavior after killing his father brought the film into a deeper darkness. However, in the end, the director was merciful and left some hope for the audience. This is slightly different from the ending of the original book, and it can be regarded as a reaction Let's climax, it seems that the director still can't bear to bring the audience into despair, that's fine, facing the darkness - do you want to continue to fall in or struggle to climb out, the two endings of the movie and the comic are up to you to choose - this It also echoes what Jin Zi, a loan shark, said in the film, "You can choose the path of your life".

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