The second Hainan International Film Festival officially opened there.
How can Poison, who lives by reading films every day, miss such an opportunity?
Buy tickets and walk away~
If you follow the last film festival, you will realize how awesome the father of the funder is.
is also very strong this year, all the people invited are from the film industry. As for the actors of
, there was a national treasure actor like Aunt Yu Pell (also the chairman of this main competition unit).
and the powerful American actor Ethan Hawke came to help. As for the director of
, the organizing committee in addition to this time invited Fahadi ("A Farewell") and Guan Jinpeng ("Ruan Lingyu"). What surprised me most about
was the invitation to the famous Japanese horror film master, Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
▲ Kurosawa Kiyoshi (left) and Jia Zhangke (right)
are different from the horror films with supernatural themes like Takashi Shimizu ("The Grudge").
Kurosawa Kiyoshi's horror films rarely see blood.
even himself complained about this:
"I'm not good at scenes full of blood. The blood in the movie is really disgusting..."
Kurosawa Kiyoshi's horror, the biggest feature is that he is good at depicting the atmosphere. Work with image symbols to create a kind of psychological fear. The "X Shengzhi" recommended by
before is a typical representative.
later, for a while, because of the lack of continuous shooting of similar subjects, he decided to switch to other types.
therefore has the classic that I want to talk about today, which will be re-screened at this festival-
Tokyo Sonata
Tokyo Sonata
Does the title sound like Bergman's "Autumn Sonata"?
even made a poster design that resembled the "Tokyo Sonata" in the restored version released by the famous film studio Standard Company in 13 years.
Of course, this is just a coincidence. On the subject of
, the two films explored completely different things.
The movie "Tokyo Sonata", as I just said, is a "transitional work" by the director. The film
was nominated for "a concern unit" in Cannes and won the jury award.
According to Kiyoshi Kurosawa's own statement, he just wants to make a work that reflects the daily life of contemporary Tokyo families, and he will not consider adding horror to it.
But when you watch the full movie, will find that the foundation of the movie is still full of horror.
Actually, this is not the director.
Kurosawa Kiyoshi did not lie, he did make a film about Japanese family life.
However, the focus is quite a mind-bending topic- middle-aged unemployment .
has to say that the release of the film is a coincidence.
suffered a panic financial crisis in 2008, the year after it started shooting. The opening of the
film is simple and clear:
is facing the fate of being eliminated by the lure of cheap labor in China under the background of global economy. Although
has contributed most of his life to the company.
But the boss still forced him to leave the company because of his lack of ability.
all know that the Japanese workplace culture once advocated lifelong tenure.
Not surprisingly, an employee should go from young to retirement after entering a company.
But this situation is becoming a thing of the past.
Some time ago, a NetEase layoff of terminally ill employees went viral in the Moments of Friends, which in fact fully confirmed the reality of the current global employment environment depression. The way
is presented in the film is desperate.
After being unemployed, Long Ping wanted to quickly find a level job after his career, but the unemployed long line seemed to have no end.
plus Japan's "good tradition" of "male dominates outside and female dominates inside". After losing his job, Long Ping did not dare to bring the bad news home immediately.
didn't even enter the door from the front door.
has a guilty conscience, is like a "thief" after losing his financial resources.
The same situation happened to his acquaintances.
is worried about being found out of unemployment. The other party even sets an alarm regularly, pretending to be connected to the phone, to dispel the worries of surrounding people.
can be cruel in reality. Once the
lies are punctured, some families will eventually suffer a fatal blow.
For Long Ping, he has to bear the pressure of being unemployed.
, on the other hand, has to bear the naked reality that the family desperately needs its own support:
furniture is broken and must be bought;
son’s interests must be taken care of (even though he refused);
wife’s driver’s license must have a genuine car. Prove its value.
used a very depressing tone in the early stage of the film to portray the embarrassment faced by an ordinary Japanese working group after unemployment.
But even so, in order not to let her face scandal at home and lose her authority.
Long Ping still goes out every day in suits and shoes, pretending to be business as usual.
Although, he has fallen to the point where he has to receive relief food with the homeless and old people .
Don't simply think that this is a magical scene that Japanese machismo can give birth to.
"Working Man" directed by Antoine Russback last year also reflected the same problem. Both films of
have pinpointed the potential crisis behind middle-aged unemployment-once the truth is exposed, may lose not only work, but also family .
Ironically, in such a situation, Long Ping is still unwilling to give up his position at home.
Faced with the wishes of the two children (to learn piano and become a soldier), he not only rudely refused. What is even more unacceptable for
is that he also likes to put on a preaching face to point to other people's choices.
did not conceal his unemployment, but kept his face unchanged and asked the child to tell the truth to himself.
corresponds to its own situation, and the irony of the film about the adult "one set in front of the other set " is clear.
Speaking of family, "Tokyo Sonata" also has a finishing touch to Yong Ping and his family members. The great thing about the
movie is that uses these characters to point out the various ills in Japanese society .
For example, Long Ping’s wife, as a housewife, had been working hard to handle the housework before her husband had a job.
But his own efforts have not been recognized by her husband.
On the contrary, when she needs help, her husband is always in a state of disappearing.
In the later stage of the film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa "stole" his wife's truth with a thief burglary. After
discovered that her husband had concealed unemployment, she said that everything before was a dream.
In fact, this sentence has euphemistically expressed his wife's dissatisfaction with this marriage.
was subsequently kidnapped to the beach, and the endless black horizon aggravated her panic and helplessness about not being able to change her destiny. The darkness in front of
is like her past when she lost herself after marriage. When
thought of having been hollowed out by housework, it was natural to collapse on the spot.
However, for housewives, marrying a husband means marrying housework has become an irreversible fact. In the sense of
, the localization of "Tokyo Sonata" based on the original script of Australian playwright Max Mannix is quite clever. The increase in
's role in his wife has allowed the audience to see the cruel reality of the imbalance of Japanese women's family status.
In addition, through Long Ping’s two sons, the film also allows the audience to see the indifference of Japanese society and its embarrassing international status. The youngest son of
was punished by the teacher for making a mistake at school. In a fit of anger, he shook the teacher's embarrassment.
Then the students booed so that the younger son realized the mistake.
But his apology got the following response from the teacher:
The friction in the classroom was taken outside the classroom. Teacher
personally vetoed the etiquette taught in class by his own behavior.
This is still true at the educational level. In the entire capital-oriented society, such apathy is also everywhere .
A fallen person who was in the same situation one second before can become a passerby who does not greet him the next second.
's warm and cold feelings have been made clear in Long Ping's surprised look.
In addition, the passage about Longping’s eldest son joining the army.
He was not participating in the Self-Defense Forces, but the US Army.
What does this show? Japan has been the younger brother of the United States since World War II. Not only is
willing to be its watchdog, it also actively contributes to local minors to help the U.S. become the world police.
And this way of thinking of “relying on American thighs to gain local security”, has been rooted in the brains of young Japanese people like cancer cells.
Young people are so dependent on power, what should the country do?
"Tokyo Sonata" twice used the image of "ship" to express concerns about personal future and national fortune.
once compared the boat with Yongpyong's friends who were also facing unemployment.
He said:
"I think we are like silent ships. The lifeboats are already drifting away. Knowing that there is no hope for help, we are still blindly looking for exits. The lifeboats are already far away, and there are only women, children and young people on it."
This kind of "blind vision" that cannot see hope is mentioned again in the dialogue between Yong Ping's wife and the thief.
At that moment, the invisible ship is no longer a concrete sign, but a metaphor of anxiety and disappointment about the hopelessness of the future.
Although Kurosawa cleared the darkness that could not see the ship with a bright ending.
But for most people in reality, the problems reflected in the film still exist.
This is the misfortune of this era, and it is also the sorrow of this era.
horror does not require the scare of ghosts, when you are penniless, that is the greatest horror .
And such horror, as long as you are not an official ape, it can happen every day.
