Is it really okay to indulge in illusory tranquility?
The anime "Meat Sauce in the Fishing Port" is based on the novel of Nishi kanako.
The film tells the warm story of Meat, who has experienced ups and downs, and "daughter" Kikuko.
The whole film is like a Japanese healing animation, with almost no dramatic conflict and no grand narrative.
Only the life of ordinary people, only under the oppression of life, but positively and optimistically face the picture of life.
Kikuko was originally the daughter of Meat's friend, but after her friend gave birth to Kikuko, she was overwhelmed and chose to run away, leaving Kikuko to raise for Meat.
The kind meat treats Kikuko as her own and does her best to make Kikuko live a comfortable life.
Meat works tirelessly in restaurants.
The owner of the restaurant is very good, providing nutritious "working meals" such as beef for the mother and daughter on weekdays, and renting a cheap boat for the mother and daughter to make a house.
Under the calm and unfazed life, there is actually a small undercurrent.
At school, Kikuko is encouraged by Maria to isolate another friend in the class, Dalisia, and after Kikuko refuses, she is badly told by Maria behind the back of her classmates.
But Maria's plot did not succeed, leaving Maria herself as the isolated girl in the class.
At the same time, Kikuko meets a strange classmate, Ninomiya.
He always grimaced behind other people's backs. Kikuko learned more about it and realized that it was a disease, and Ninomiya couldn't control himself from making grimaces.
In addition, Kikuko's menarche has not arrived for a long time, which becomes another clue hidden throughout the film.
The above three sub-plots run through the whole film.
Based on a simple small plot, the film constantly shows the close feelings of Meat and Kikuko.
And the exquisite picture becomes a tool for emotional expression.
To be honest, I watched this film a lot of times.
Healing anime like Japan, whether it's a movie or a novel, it's hard to appreciate her beauty without a peaceful state of mind, and it's hard to feel the lingering emotions in the film/novel.
These days, because of the isolation, the mood is more impetuous, and it is not very possible to see this film.
If I have to evaluate, I think it's very general.
I have seen the original novel of the film a long time ago, and this film focuses more on Kikuko's perspective than the novel, through which Kikuko shows the kindness and impulsiveness of meat.
But both the film and the novel have a fatal flaw — they don't break through the warm perspective and don't think about things from a deeper social perspective.
The film doesn't think about the causes of the meat dilemma.
Why is meat repeatedly deceived by men? Why can meat be poor and poor when it can only do the service industry to make ends meet? Why does maria, a classmate, have to be isolated in the class?
What are the reasons behind these problems?
None of the films are explored.
The other day I read a documentary literature called "Poor Women in Tokyo," which describes the plight of women under Japan's current system, who are forced to become the lowest level of society, either because of family reasons or because of their female status.
Most of them are extremely pessimistic and disappointed under the pressure of an embarrassing economy.
They lose hope for the future, and they don't know when they will commit suicide.
Although the book does not give an answer, at least more people can know that this group exists in society, at least this group can be exposed, and then induce more people to think and change the status quo of this group.
This group of people in the book may be more able to express the emotions generated by people's embarrassing economic pressures.
In contrast, in "Meat Sauce in the Fishing Port", meat still remains positive and optimistic, kind and kind under the embarrassing economic pressure.
The characters who appear in the film, whether they are the bosses who hire meat or the neighbors, are so kind and amiable.
This is too illusory, too labeled.
There is an inherent sense of poverty and happiness, but the film only shows positive and optimistic emotions, only shows people who are kind and kind, and I think this is more of a kind of nipple music.
Japan's interest classes seem to want to use these tactics to get the people at the bottom to live and work in peace and contentment, and to stop thinking about the reasons for their bad situation.
Of course, this is not just to say that the film is not positive, in fact, she can become a means of hypnosis, watching a little while sleeping at night, immersed in the beautiful world of the film.
I think this is perhaps the biggest significance of Japanese healing works, right?