"Until you see ordinary is the only answer."
The song "The Ordinary Road" has been very popular since its release. However, few people can explain clearly why ordinary is the only answer. At the beginning of this year, the Japanese drama "Restart Life" was born. This high-scoring masterpiece tells the trivial daily life in a gentle and healing tone, and firmly grasps the fantasy theme of "rebirth". The collision of and perfectly interprets every rare moment in ordinary life. We finally get a glimpse of the "only answer." Ordinary details reveal true feelings This cycle of reincarnation has been preceded by many film and television works. In "Happy Death Day", Terry, a girl who is constantly reborn after being murdered, is able to get out of the cycle by finding the murderer in her rebirths, realizing her shortcomings and changing herself. In "Source Code", the protagonist needs to find out the cause of the train explosion and prevent the explosion in just 8 minutes. Each cycle puts people in breathless pressure and adrenaline surges. In "The Beginning", the male and female protagonists are trapped in repeated rebirths. In order to prevent the explosion and end the cycle, they begin to find the truth of the accident, and ultimately save the lives of a car of people. Most of these works are exciting, suspenseful and highly dramatic. However, "Restart Life" goes in the opposite direction. It uses the gentleness, healing, and delicacy of Japanese dramas as the main tone, giving another possibility to "rebirth" - no suspense of revenge, no ups and downs, only triviality. Being ordinary and meticulous can still create wonderful stories, and even resonate more with the audience. The story of begins with Asami Kondo. An unmarried woman in her thirties, working in the municipal government of her hometown, faced trivial matters every day. I complain to my colleagues at work. The work process is lengthy. Every purchase of a pen has to be submitted for approval. My boss always keeps shirts to prevent his collar from being pulled by customers. When speaking to customers, I have to choose my words carefully. Get together with friends after get off work, sing karaoke, and gossip about classmates. Asami thought that her everyday life would repeat itself like this forever. Until after a party, she was hit by a truck and came to the "reincarnation transfer station". There is only one office worker in the white space. She was told that she would be reincarnated as a giant anteater in her next life. In order to be reincarnated as an adult in the next life, Mami decided to start a new life and accumulate negative virtues. Then, the gears of fate began to turn. In the next few rounds of life, Mami did more good things every time. stopped her friend Reina's father from cheating on her husband, helped her grandpa identify the medicines that should not be taken together and successfully saved her grandfather, prevented the teacher she once hated from being slandered, and helped Reina get rid of the cheating married man around her... one after another. Small things don't seem as satisfying as saving the world and completing revenge. is like in the third round of life, Asami became a television producer. When creating a TV series about rebirth, others said that it would be too unattractive if the reborn person only did small things like preventing cheating; the protagonist should do something big, such as saving the world. These words seemed to give Asami a head-on blow. It turned out that everything she had done was too insignificant. However, at the end of the story, it was Miss Kawaguchi who prevented the captain from cheating and saved the people on the plane. is too far for us to go to heaven and earth like a superhero and save the world. And the ordinary things that ordinary people like Asami do are exactly what we can most empathize with. Restarting life, making up for past regrets, living a simple life better, and enjoying every happy moment of life may be the meaning of rebirth. Friendship gives people the courage to live. This delicate portrayal is not only reflected in these small things that accumulate evil, but also in every chat with friends. Every seemingly trivial dialogue does not make people feel boring, but instead strengthens and highlights the sense of reality. Colleagues who work in the city office, the topic is "Instead of saying welcome, what should I say"; when I meet old classmates at KTV, they can discuss for ten minutes about "giving me too many fries to eat"... The most touching thing In one of the dialogues, Asami, as a producer, was far away in Tokyo and saw two friends, Natsuki Mabel, traveling thousands of miles away and coming to her home with loads of snacks. A look of surprise appeared on Asami's face, and emotion spread within it. The fatigue of life seems to disappear when communicating with friends. This healing power can support everyone to face the future bravely. These plots are as real as what would happen to you, giving you a full sense of immersion. It seems that I have also gained the courage to face life in this babble. What is even more unexpected is that the winner in life, Mari, was originally a member of the team. In order to save Natsuki and Mabel who died in the plane crash, she was reborn again and again, but failed again and again. She could have told the two friends not to board the plane, but although this would allow the two to survive, it would not allow others on the plane to survive. So, she decided to become a pilot, fly that plane, and change the route. For this reason, Mari sacrificed time with friends, worked hard to exercise, improved her grades, and finally became a pilot. However, every time it was a little bit worse, either because of insufficient qualifications or because there was no way to change shifts. Every time he was reborn, Zhenli drifted away from the three of them. It wasn’t until I met Asami in the fourth life that the loneliness that had been hidden for a hundred years was finally seen. If Mami was previously reincarnated as an adult in order to accumulate moral virtue and make up for the regrets in her life, then after meeting Mari, this state of mind began to change. In Asami's fourth life, Mari still failed to save her two friends. In this life, Asami finally lived to the age corresponding to the death of her friend. Stepping on the bridge that I had crossed countless times with my friends, this loneliness finally flowed from Mari's mouth to Asami's heart. So after the fourth life, Asami could have been reincarnated as a human being, which was her goal all along. But in order to save her friend's life and to accompany Mari who had endured a hundred years of loneliness, she chose to be reborn again. This is also her last chance. As a result, Mami in the fifth life and Mari in the sixth life embarked on a journey of salvation together. In order to meet the standards of pilots, the two of them worked extremely hard, and inevitably became strangers to Natsuki Mabel. However, losing this friendship is precisely to save this friendship. Their hard work paid off, and finally at the last moment, the two of them successfully piloted the plane that would hit the meteorite, changed its route, and saved everyone's lives. Meteorites passed by the window, and the firelight reflected in their eyes, praising the courage to face thousands of hardships and endure hundreds of years of loneliness. And this courage does not come from the grand ideal of becoming a savior, but just from the small long-cherished wish to save a friend. This is more direct to the heart than a grand superhero narrative. Thousands of sails have passed, but the original intention has not been forgotten Fortunately, at the end of the story, the four people became good friends who talked about everything. In the dark, it proves that people whose fate is not yet fulfilled will always meet. Asami returned to her hometown city hall, and Mari became a kindergarten teacher again. Every time the four of them get together, they still talk about those little things, and they still discuss trivial matters like whether to go to karaoke or not. Some viewers may still be puzzled by this: Why should we give up the hard-won perfect life, give up the respected high-paying job, and live an ordinary and ordinary life again? But I think that for Asami and Mari, who have lived for more than a hundred years and experienced countless lives and deaths, nothing is more precious than the time spent with friends and family. What they tried their best to protect was just the most ordinary daily life at that time. For example, Miss Kawaguchi was reborn eight or nine times. Except for being encouraged by Mami to try a different path and choosing to spend her ninth life as a stewardess, she chose the same life every time because of this ordinary but ordinary life. A happy life is what her true heart desires. For a long time, we seem to have been taught to "live a meaningful life." But what kind of life is meaningful? In this regard, Paul Korchagin said - A person's life should be spent like this: when recalling the past, he will not regret for wasting his years, nor will he be ashamed of his inaction in the past; when he is dying, , he was able to say: "My whole life and all my energy have been dedicated to the most magnificent cause in the world - the struggle for the liberation of mankind." This touching monologue has always inspired countless people to move forward. It is an interpretation of the meaning of life. But this does not mean that every bit of life right now is meaningless. In today's society with serious involution and great pressure, especially for the people of East Asia who are nicknamed "no gap year", this rhetoric cannot work well. Because people always have to put aside grand narratives before they can return to micro life. What each of us ordinary people want most is to be able to eat hot dishes cooked by family members when we go home on cold winter nights, to be comforted by friends when we are lonely and empty, and to gain inner peace a hundred years later. Those days that once seemed boring and monotonous are not a complete waste of time to another extent, but are the driving force to support us through each difficulty. Mami was reborn five times, and finally chose to return to her original life. This is exactly telling us that you can embrace an ordinary and simple life, as long as you can obtain true happiness. Asami's actor, Ando Sakura, said at the press conference of this drama: "This drama is about re-living. I hope to live a good life this year, with a strong vitality." Back to reality, although We can’t restart our lives from scratch, but every time a new year comes, isn’t it a restart? The moment the clock struck zero, everyone washed away the fatigue of the year and welcomed the arrival of the new year with a new and high-spirited attitude. Human beings gain the courage to continue living in the anticipation of the New Year again and again. Whether it is creating a great career or protecting ordinary life, it can all start again at the beginning of the new year. Just like every time she is reborn, Asami's parents will smile and happily say to this child who "just" came into the world: "Thank you for coming to us." Every New Year, I hope everyone can feel Just like the happiness of rebirth, with imagination for the future and the courage to live, I say: "Thank you for coming to this world." htmlThe "Life Restart" at the beginning of 4 has come to an end, and the "Life Restart" at the end of the year has yet to be completed. reprint and mutual promotion: lansing0514 business cooperation: Lsxhrg Back to the original beauty↘↘↘
