Feel a little miserable at home every day and not being able to go out?
Let's take a look at "Surviving Family", in this movie, the protagonist's family, who experienced a century of power outages, is undoubtedly more miserable.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > what if tomorrow the world has no electricity? </h1>
I remember that Helen Keller once wrote a famous book called "If You Give Me Three Days of Light", which made the reader enter the diverse world of Helen Keller with great interest from the beginning, and gradually learned to re-understand and interpret everything in the world from another perspective in the process of reading.
And "Survival Family" also has the same magic as it, at the beginning of the movie, set the world without electricity such a story background.
Let the audience start from the crisis, follow the footsteps of the protagonist's family, and gradually learn to look at life, family and life from another perspective.
At the beginning of the story, the Suzuki family of four living in Tokyo live a day-to-day urban life, and in just a few minutes of cutscenes, the personality characteristics of the four characters, the mother of a housewife who is busy with housework, the stereotypical and conservative company employee father, the ambiguous and vain sister, and the taciturn otaku brother, are fully displayed in front of the audience.
The sudden blackout caused the original life of the family of four to be completely broken, the mother could not wash and cook, the father could not go to work normally, the sister and brother not only had the traffic to go to school greatly affected, and a bunch of electronic products such as mobile phones and game consoles suddenly became useless scrap copper and rotten iron.
In the harsh reality that followed, the family finally decided not to sit still, fled Tokyo, and fled for their grandfather, the child who was far away in Kagoshima.
Without electricity, long-distance travel that could have been done by plane or Shinkansen became less so easy, and cycling across most of Japan became the only way for a family of four to reach their destination.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > both travel and growth</h1>
Although it is a family, the father and mother, parents and children have not had serious communication for a long time, which can be seen from the mutual accusations of the family when they face difficulties at the beginning of the trip.
However, as the long journey continues, the true feelings between family members gradually replace the bland indifference at the beginning of the story, and each person constantly changes their original self in the ensuing difficulties and blows, opening the inner windows to each other.
The first thing to say is the father, this small man in a midlife crisis, do not understand the family image does not seem to be a case, in real life there are many men like him, in the pressure of work and the immutable life gradually erased the passion and vitality of the early years.
It is also true that the practical significance of this role is the most straightforward.
In the anxiety of life and work, the stubborn and narrow-minded personality characteristics are accompanied, and he cannot tolerate the criticism and accusations of others.
This has allowed him to make all kinds of mistakes from the beginning of his journey and become the focus of a small and old family.
Despite the advice to drink the creek water to get diarrhea the next day, there is no sense of direction, and blindly command a family of children to run around like headless flies.
The most infuriating thing is that as the head of the family, he not only fails to fulfill his responsibilities and obligations as a father and husband, but also wants his wife and children to be humble to him.
It wasn't until the daughter and son burst out in the predicament of running out of food and no way out, that the wife's sentence "Don't you understand, your father is such a person" made Suzuki, as a husband, begin to realize his problems and shortcomings.
In the midst of the difficulties encountered during the trip, the family gradually learned to work together from the initial mutual responsibilities to face, and the role of the father finally completed self-redemption in the second half of the film, achieving true growth.
From kneeling in the aquarium and begging for "please give the two children a little food" to preferring to sacrifice themselves only so that the family can cross the river safely, to leading the family to work together to catch the pigs that escaped from the pen, the father's leadership role in the second half of the film is an important reason for the family to truly achieve mutual understanding and love.
In the long journey, in addition to the father, the wife and two children have also undergone earth-shaking changes.
Originally afraid of cutting fish, living in the shadow of her husband for a long time, the wife who has no opinion has gradually learned to pursue independently and dare to make her voice heard.
The son who took off his headphones was finally able to hear the sound of everything from the world, walk out of self-isolation, and learn to talk to his family calmly.
And like to complain, the daily stinky beauty of the daughter also learned to be tolerant and generous in getting along with her family.
And in order to survive, she changed the previous princess disease, fishing, catching pigs, crossing rivers, camping... These things, which she had never dared to imagine before, completely changed her perception of the world and herself.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > the true feelings of ordinary life</h1>
From mobile phones and washing machines to cars, subways, airplanes, all things related to electricity are all shut down overnight, and the background of such a story is not like the popular American drama "The End of the World" that year.
However, the director and screenwriter of "Survival Family" Yaguchi Shijing obviously does not want to repeat the various science fantasies built in the background of this story, and under the appearance of science fiction is a family story full of warmth and growth.
So, some people watch "Survival Family" with the mentality of watching science fiction movies, and after watching it, they ask questions such as why the whole movie is not involved in the government army. Why can't a decent map still be able to travel through most of Japan? Hunger and cold can still survive and so on, a bunch of questions, which obviously do not understand the theme idea that the director really wants to express through this story.
The depiction of delicate emotional changes is an important feature of Japanese literature and art, and in the works of literary heroes such as Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima, the depiction of the fluctuations in the inner world of the characters can be said to be numerous.
This feature has been well inherited in Japanese film works, and the "life flow" represented by Japanese film masters such as Hirokazu Kore-eda and Yoji Yamada is an outstanding representative.
Yaguchi Shijing can be said to have made unprecedented innovations and breakthroughs in "Survival Family", combining family stories with science fiction concepts.
Although the film's "Great Blackout" event, which is the premise of the story, is always in a vague description, and it is not until the end of the film that a lame explanation influenced by sunspots is given, it is undeniable that under the meticulous hammering, the story of a family of four after the crisis is very brilliant.
The film opens in a trivial daily life, showing the audience a middle-class family that has gradually lost its kinship in modern urban life, and the family members are full of alienated indifference that cannot be communicated and understood.
However, in the face of external crises, even if there are differences and contradictions in the family, they have never given up on each other, and gradually found the missing part of the family relationship.
In the process of traveling, everyone discovers their own shortcomings, learns to be responsible, understanding and tolerant, and more importantly, they understand what each family member means to each other.
Life is full of bittersweet and bittersweet, but as long as the family's hearts are always together, then even if they face great difficulties, they can bravely face it.
When the younger generation of Japanese people gradually lost themselves in urban life and modern technology, and when indifference and rigidity gradually replaced sincerity and warmth as the dominance of interpersonal relationships, the shooting and production of a film like "Survival Family" undoubtedly has a very special meaning and meaning.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" > the bond between widows and widows and family</h1>
In addition to the change depiction of a family of four in the main storyline, the film also expresses the concern for the lonely and widowed elderly group through plot depiction.
For example, the old man who lives alone in Tokyo at the beginning of the movie, after the power outage and water cuts, due to helplessness, finally unfortunately died in exchange for the belated companionship of his children.
Another example is the unexpected association of the Suzuki family with a grandfather in the countryside during their escape journey.
This old man who let the Suzuki family help him catch pigs as soon as he appeared, looked stereotypical and strange on the outside, but deep inside he was full of loneliness and helplessness.
The old man who lives alone for many years is full of misses for his son and grandson who are far away from home, but the estrangement of family affection makes him unable to hope for the return of his son's family as he wishes.
Therefore, when he first saw the devastated Suzuki family, he naturally recalled the happiness of his children and grandchildren in the past. In the process of getting along with the Suzuki family, he gradually untied his heart knot, and also changed from the strange stereotypes at the first sight to the warmth.
In the end, when the Suzuki family had to resign and go away, the grandfather's heart was unwilling, which can be seen from his open-mindedness to pack his bags for the Suzuki family and replenish food.
Doesn't the grandfather reflect those widows and widows who have been separated from their children for a long time and long for the warmth of family affection?
Some of these old people are lucky enough to occasionally look forward to the return of their children during the New Year's Festival, but soon they will face separation. And some unlucky old people can't see their children who are out and about for many years.