It's not that I'm not incapable of succeeding, "I'm just not fully committed"
Today I want to recommend to you a Japanese light comedy "I just haven't gone all out", after watching the movie, I feel that I will find a little shadow of myself from the protagonist, every time I am determined to do one thing, I am full of ambition, I set up a flag, but I am not defeated by difficulties, and I give up first. I don't know if there is such a person around you, who does not take the usual road, hates to live a nine-to-five work life, does what he likes, and everyone envies his free life, but does not dare to try.
The protagonist of the film, Shizuo, is a 42-year-old Japanese uncle who just resigned, living with his 17-year-old daughter and old father, although he is middle-aged, he has no goals of his own, and he does not know what he wants, and after resigning, he lives a muddy life, and his father urges him again and again to find a serious job. Once, while reading manga, I suddenly decided to become a manga artist so that I would not have to work. When he got home, he announced the news to his father and daughter, who just smiled and encouraged and said, "It's fine, but Shizuo's father is crying angrily."
As a result, Shizuo began the road of a manga artist, And Shizuo, like many ordinary people, was full of confidence at first, but he was always hanging on to Lang Dang and unreliable. However, I finally made a little result, drew the first comic and submitted it to the publisher, and it is conceivable that the first time I was rejected by the person in charge.
Shizuo feels discouraged, in order to maintain a normal life, he has to go to a fast food restaurant as a clerk, and the colleagues he works with are young people in their teens and twenties, seeing that he is old, he jokes about him as the store manager, but the actual store manager is only 25 years old, and Shizuo is very abrupt among them. A dinner party of the whole store, learned that Shizuo is a comic, all laughed at him, said to find Shizuo in advance to sign, Shizuo drank some wine, and the girl opposite showed kindness, asked her what kind of boy she liked, the girl looked at Shizuo coldly and said, I am looking for someone who has savings and an annual salary that cannot be lower than mine. You should be looking for a serious job at this age, not getting by as you are now. This made Shizuo very angry, and he made up his mind to draw a good manga that surprised the store managers, managers and colleagues who looked down on him.
There is a very interesting scene, the scene of the 42-year-old Shizuo borrowing money from his 17-year-old daughter, it is reasonable to say that he should take on the heavy responsibility of the family as a young man, but he has a good daughter, and every time he faces his dreams, he is gentle and gentle support. Shizuo has a successful career of Fa Komiyata, is the head of the real estate company, divorced, has a five-year-old son, sees each other once a month, every time he goes to the izakaya to drink is a small guest, when it comes to Shizuo's dream, Miyata is still very envious, can be free, but every time he mentions the matter of drawing manga, Shizuo always says, don't worry, manga artists also need to rest. He also advised Miyata, who was only forty years old, not to pretend to be mature.
Shizuo works in a fast food restaurant with a new 26-year-old clerk Xiuyi, Shizuo takes good care of him, and has become a friend, so Shizuo took him to find Miyata to rub rice, the three men began to talk about careers, Shuichi wanted to be the same as Miyata, to be a salaryman, decent, but always felt that he was not capable enough, only to do some ordinary part-time jobs. They both envied Shizuo and could do what he wanted. Shizuo continued to draw his own caricature, every time he felt that he had exhausted all his strength, but the person in charge just felt that it was not OK, and he would not use it, Shizuo was very confused, what in the end to draw to debut? Once, when watching TV at home, I saw an interview with a very famous manga artist, the same age as Shizuo, whose works have been made into movies and TV series many times, but he is ready to retire, and Shizuo is very devastated.
Once on the way home, Shizuo met his daughter, the father and daughter had a wordless chat, Jingxiong did not want his daughter to be too disappointed in himself, saying that his part-time job increased his hourly wage. Shizuo asked his daughter, what would happen if I made my debut and became a manga artist? The daughter thought about it and said, I don't know, so you should look at it. Shizuo was very encouraged, and worked hard to draw another comic and submit it to the publisher, but he still said that he did not pass. Back at home, his father learned of this and had a big fight with him, kicked him out of the house, and Shizuo had to go to Xiu's house to spend the night.
His dream life was that, five years later, his comics would become very famous, made into movies and TV series, and his daughter would have her own family and live happily, like a princess. And the father would praise Shizuo in front of his mother's portrait, saying that he had finally come out, but all this was just his daydream. Later, Shizuo felt that he had been unsuccessful because of his bad luck, so he went to the street to find a fortune teller and changed his pen name, although the fortune teller was just a liar, but Shizuo who changed his name really had great luck, and the comic "300 Years of Life" was not only adopted, but also won the newcomer award in the corner of the magazine.
Shizuo became confident, but his father told him that after fulfilling his dream, he could return to reality and find a serious job, but Shizuo did not pay attention to it, but continued his own path. When Shizuo thought he was finally going to debut, the person in charge of his work resigned, and the new person in charge did not like his work and refused to adopt it.
Shizuo suddenly felt that his whole life was over, on the way home was also weak, wanted to massage and actually bumped into his daughter who was working part-time in a massage shop, and later learned that her daughter was doing part-time work to support her father's dream of being a cartoonist, Shizuo let her daughter quit her part-time job, and decided to continue to insist and live up to her daughter's wishes for herself. Miyata, on the other hand, resigned and decided to open a bakery that his son liked the most.
In life, we have many dreams and many things we want to do. But have you really done your best for what you love?