In the afternoon three days after watching the movie "The Mortician", I dragged myself and tiredness to decide to express what I wanted to say after watching the play.
Saturday night was with a friend who was engaged in IT, probably because of the weekend, this show was almost full, we sat in the second row, the position was too close to become a little low, it felt like the whole picture was up.
Daigo Kobayashi, who has a cello dream, leaves Tokyo with his wife Mika and returns to the countryside after losing his job. When eating at home, I accidentally saw a very well-paid job in the newspaper, and after understanding it, I learned that it was a mortician, which was the prelude to the funeral company, washing the body of the deceased, putting on makeup, changing clothes, and putting them into a coffin.
At first, in order to make more money than other industries, he continued to hide the truth from his wife in the name of publishing the profession of a travel agency in the newspaper.
In the first two cases, he came into contact with the corpse for the first time, facing the impact of autumn frost on his young, masculine, uninhabited, spring-like life. The immeasurable weight came to him like that.
One night, Mika cooked the hot pot with great pleasure, and he saw the bloody feeling of the whole chicken on the table, and the chicken's open eyes seemed to be talking to him. He remembered the old grandmother who had just been disposed of and had been rotting for a week or so, and the smell of all the material decaying in the room.
He clutched miserably at the moment of Mika's emotional breakdown, no one knew the heaviness of his heart, and he cherished and returned life with a deep carnal desire. It wasn't an ordinary level of love, and when he saw death, he just wanted to cling to the love around him.
One day, Mika sees a videotape of Daigo acting as a corpse model for training in his private drawer, and she is so embarrassed and embarrassed that she persuades Daigo to give up this profession, not to seek great wealth and nobility, but to find a normal profession to support his family.
In the shot, Daigo is silently shocked. Until Mika is disappointed and leaves with her luggage. Outside the door is a snowy winter.
Later, When Zhou Suo spread the word about his work as a mortician, his friends thought he was obscure, avoided him when they met him, and despised him. Even in the eyes of many slanders, he still did not give up the profession.
After each funeral with President Sasa, they broke away from the solemn atmosphere of mourning and a smile of comfort and compassion on their faces.
Daigo had the inner conflict of resigning when he was experiencing unhappiness at work and being squeezed out by the crowd around him. One day when he applied to the president for resignation, the president was living quietly and exclusively in the sky garden, and the president roasted two delicious puffer fish white, and the two sucked it to the extreme. The elder of the society smiled and said, "What a sin!"
There are three scenes of eating in the plot, after the president and Daigo are buried once, the owner sends dry persimmons, and the two sit in the car, the appearance is sudden, and the heart is solemnly eating. The last time was Yuriko Uemura, President Sasa, and Daigo eating hot, soft chicken thighs at the funeral studio. The president said again what a sin!
Eating represents substance. The three people engaged in the work of death and burial, and saw clearly the nature of life, eating is the most basic need of the human body, and the optimization and enjoyment of the service taste. Their experience and cognition are not easy for ordinary people, they have earned more money than ordinary people, engaged in work that ordinary people fear, and tasted delicious foods that ordinary people have not reached. Life experience is at its limit. Grief for life is exchanged for the most delicious food to satisfy some comfort in life.
Daigo was buried with countless different corpses, people of both sexes, the elderly, children, middle-aged women, each with different families' requirements for burial and environmental atmosphere, and experienced all kinds of life.
When the neighbor who opened the bathroom, Grandma Yamashita, died, it was Daigo himself who was buried, and once despised his grandmother's son and family, and his wife Mika all witnessed his burial process and deeply respected him, and finally forgave and affirmed Daigo's sacred work.
Daigo's mother died in childhood and his father left, and his memory of his father has been blurred. Suddenly, one day I received a letter from my father who had passed away. At first, Daigo resentfully refused to go to see him, but through yuriko Uemura's persuasion, Daigo decided to bury his father.
Seeing that Dad's appearance was so strange, my heart still resisted. Angered by the fact that the people of the funeral industry wanted to hastily carry away the body, he buried his father with his own hands, and in his father's stiff hand he took out a small stone, which he had given to his father when he was a child, and he had been keeping another stone that his father had exchanged with him.
At this moment, he confirmed his father's eternal thoughts and love for him, and also showed that his father finally left with love. Daigo's gentle hands caressed his father's face, tears raining down, regret and unbearable love, so heart-wrenching.
In the shot, there are several crows, and the crows represent desolation, death and the song is finally scattered. A few times the snow flew in the air. The overall tone of the film is low and sad, as well as the cool color of the room, the dusk, and the solemn picture sense of the characters' expressions.
Daigo uses the cello to play this piece of Music to express his love for his father and his memories and thoughts of his childhood life in the family life accompanied by his parents.
The emotional tone of the entire film continues to be flat, and there is no obvious amplitude of ups and downs. It appears long, tangled, and lush, and feels the weakness of the mental level. Exudes real emotions, as if the circles of life are round, endless. It also says that life should be so plain.