"Today is May 7th, the first day of my life. I neither surrendered nor committed suicide. It seems to be much more despicable than I expected. Anyway, I have a bad life, so I will use it effectively, even if Only once, make a contribution to the society" This video line is the spiritual monologue of the protagonist Sumita after killing his father the day before.
The Japanese ghost director Sono Ziwen is indeed a very good director. I think, maybe in Asia, only Korean geek directors like Kim Ki-duk can be compared with him. Maybe it's just the narrowness of my knowledge that caused me to have such a perception, but Sono Ziwen has a unique view on personal "existence". In the movie "The Crime of Love", he learned that "besides words, there is no need to remember", and in "Mediocrity" I also learned the same philosophy: flies in milk, black and white; lazy people and diligent people, you can tell at a glance. Why is it the same? Both mentioned that "the authorities are obsessed, and the bystanders are clear", that is, people can see things clearly, but cannot understand themselves. I think Sono Ziwen's filming of such a film should be based on postmodernist literary thought, with a deconstruction and subversion connotation, aiming to explore the inner world of individuals. The movie "Mediocre" relies on the background of a certain small town withering after the grand earthquake in Japan, showing the psychology of the Japanese everywhere, involving extramarital affairs, sexual violence, drugs, loan sharks, earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear leakage, etc. a chaotic society.
Since the film involves many aspects, about survival, values, family, money, etc., I will only briefly say my humble opinion on how to become a dream of an ordinary person. Sumita, a third-year junior high student, saw the teacher on the podium talk about the so-called grand ideals and how to revive Japan. But Sumita wants to be an ordinary person, running his own rental boat house. Cha Ze, who is in the same class, loves Sumita without hesitation. No matter what he does or what he does wrong, he supports him without hesitation, printing and distributing the flyer of "Sutian Rent a Boathouse" for him to help him. In addition, Uncle Yono, who almost died for him. There are also several victims who have nowhere to live, all of whom are friends of Sumita. It stands to reason that Sumita is not a poor person, although his parents divorced, his father drank and gambled, and owed a lot of debt; his mother ran away with someone in the end, but at least he still had friends. After dropping out of school, he ran his own boat charter business.
However, all this was disrupted by two things in succession. The first thing was that loan sharks came to his house and asked him for money, because his father owed six million yuan, and Zhu Tian naturally had no money to pay, so they beat him, humiliated and beat him. Another thing is that he killed his own father. His father came home one day and said that he wanted to live in the fields and die, and it was trouble for him to live. This kind of family feeling was gone for Sumita at the moment. It was raining heavily outside. He caught up with his father and threw a stone at him. When his father was in a coma, he burst into tears and endured all the complicated emotions. In the rainy afternoon, he buried his father in front of his house. Since then, only his recordings have been made, and it seems that he is going to be violent with this world. Every day he wanders the streets like a zombie (as Chazawa is called), with a dagger in his handbag. On the street, he saw many strange phenomena, a gangster who stabbed a pregnant woman to death on a bus, a sexually abused bikini woman, a maniac who wanted to kill a street singer (this man kept asking others to answer who he was, about The question of "who am I" is an eternal one). He wants to kill the bad guys who are causing trouble for society so that his zombie-like body has value.
In fact, people who have normal and beautiful feelings for ordinary people are Cha Ze. She is an angel-like girl, who is willing to give Sumita a lot, and is willing to marry him, get married and have children, and live an ordinary life. Perhaps Cha Ze's behavior is naive, but a person with a beautiful heart can have enough courage to live and pursue what he loves. She eventually influenced Sumita and went to the police station with Sumita to surrender. Of course, the film also drew a more satisfactory end. However, there are still many questions that remain in the minds of the audience.
Among them, one question is just like the title of my article, "You are only bound by your own rules." This sentence was originally a line of Heze to persuade Sumita. I quoted it, naturally, to illustrate a problem. I think the reason why the director made such a film is not only to express the macro theme of cherishing life and loving life, but also to illustrate a kind of change and adaptation, to break his own rules. Although Sumita is facing an unfortunate family and is very lonely inside, but there are many friends around him, he must try to open his heart and enter the crowd in order to live an ordinary life.
I think sometimes if even living an ordinary life becomes a luxury, so-called idealism is not surprising.
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