Some time ago, Buya Jun saw such a piece of news.
Our world is too big, and there will be such human tragedies in 2020.
Under the epidemic, this year's world is not easy, in the special period, some cattle ghosts and snake gods began to stir, and there were some "anti-human" remarks in Japan - advocating the use of the epidemic to "take advantage of the opportunity to solve the aging".
This is a picture that is highly reproduced on Japanese social networking sites, and has also been on the domestic Weibo hot search.
Some egoistic young people preach the hope that the elderly will get more new crown in order to solve the current serious aging problem in Japan.
The above two news pieces make Buya Jun think of a very heavy old movie, that is, today I want to tell you about this "Kaoyama Festival Examination", which is known as the japanese god of the world.
The story of "Kaoyama Festival" was made into two films in 1958 and 1983, and today I want to talk about the 1983 version.
The film director is Masahira Imamura, as a leading figure in the new wave of Japanese cinema, he has a pivotal position in the Japanese film industry, and his international reputation is second only to his predecessors Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, and Kenji Mizoguchi.
"Yǒu) Mountain Festival Examination" is the representative work of Imamura Changping, won the Best Film Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival, one of the world's three major film festivals, and more than 30,000 netizens on Douban scored a high score of 9.0, which is recognized as a divine work, and is also restored and remade for screening at major film festivals in China every year.
Director Masahira Imamura is good at shooting the most authentic side of human nature, persistently grasping those ugly parts, and this "Kaiyama Festival Examination" uses 130 minutes to tell the story of human nature.
The name of the mountain is the name of the place, the festival is the custom, the examination is the examination, and the title of the film means to go to the place of the mountain to investigate the local customs.
At the beginning of the film, the snow covers the mountains under the large panorama, and with the passage of the long lens, a snowy mountain village comes into view.
The story takes place in this isolated village in the mountains of Shinshu, Japan, more than a hundred years ago, a mountain village that is desperate.
People here live in extreme poverty, there is no surplus food to support the elderly and children, so here a cruel custom has been formed:
In every household, only the eldest son can marry and have children, other men can only work, not marry, they are called "slave cubs"; the born male babies are discarded, the female babies are exchanged for money to maintain their lives; widows have to have sex with all the single men in the village to atone for their sins.
It is also appalling that when the elderly live to be 70 years old, they will be carried by their sons to the mountain behind the village and let them fend for themselves.
It is said that it is to send the old man to the mountain to worship the mountain god and pray for the mountain god to protect the village in good weather, but in fact, it is because there is no surplus grain in the village for the old man who has no production capacity to eat, so the old man must be eliminated.
Therefore, in this village, there are more men and fewer women, and the only requirement is to live and vent their desires, and family affection and love are very suspended things.
The protagonist of the movie, Ah Lingbo, is 69 years old, and she does not feel very afraid of being sent to the mountain to pay homage to the mountain god, and she behaves very calmly, step by step to arrange the future of herself and her family.
In order to make herself look older, she also knocked out her teeth, and what made her care was two things about her two sons: one was the matter of Tatsuhira's continuation, and the other was that the other son, Ritsusuke, as a "slave cub", had no right to marry a wife, and had not yet tasted the joy of men and women.
She fulfilled these two wishes before going up the mountain.
Finding a woman named Ayu becomes Tatsuhira's wife, and a strong new daughter-in-law can take care of the family instead of herself. Convince his friend Akin to let his youngest son experience the affairs of men and women for the first time.
If you refuse to carry your mother up the mountain to die, you will be poked in the spine by the whole village, and if the old man is not willing to obediently send him to death, he will be directly thrown to death by the five flowers.
It was extremely cruel, and some old people were sent up the mountain and ran back, and they would be treated with extreme cruelty, just like this.
Tatsuhira did not want to send his mother up the mountain, but he could not think of a way to counter the cruel tradition of the village, and had no choice but to choose to carry his mother up the mountain.
Back to the top of the mountain, where white bones are piled up and the cold wind is clear, this is the focus of the whole film, no spoilers.
In the extremely sad music, Tatsuhira tearfully bids farewell to his mother who raised him, and every step of parting is like a thousand gold weights.
After watching this movie, I only feel sad, flowers blossom and fall, spring to spring, life and death, cycle after cycle.
But the human beings in the movie are both ruthless and affectionate, but this feeling is so fragile and helpless in the face of survival.
Old-age care is a worldwide problem, but director Masahira Imamura uses an allegorical story to expand this problem to the level of humanity.
This is the story of more than a hundred years ago, modern society will not have such a custom, but the problem is not only the pension, because of the development of the network, we can also see more of the evil customs that still exist, the human tragedy is still staged in our society, the tatsuhei in the movie can not fight with the group, the heart is very painful, and some people in our reality, doing evil things are really bad....
Today' recommendation of this relatively heavy film is not to spread negative energy, but to sincerely recommend a recognized masterpiece.
And our life should not only be entertainment, many practical problems need our attention, may not be directly solved, but attention is also an attitude, and the aging problem, you and I may encounter in the future, this concern is also self-interest.