Shanghai Film Festival Participating Film "Hello, Mom": A letter of memory to a middle-aged man and his mother
Japanese film "Hello, Mom": Frustrated middle-aged man and his warm mother who rekindles the fire of love - introduction.
There are many literary films in Japan, which look inconspicuous, but they always moisten or smooth the softest corners of your heart in the smallest details, and then can't help but shed the most soothing tears.
In the cinema, silent tears, a face.
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"Hello, Mom" is such a Japanese movie. The hero, Akio, is middle-aged, and his career and family are not satisfactory.
In terms of career, although he is the head of the personnel department and can predict the company's layoff list in advance, because he is too principled, even if his good friend is on the layoff list, he is tight-lipped and never reveals half a word in advance, so he is ostracized and complained by everyone.
In family life, Akio and his wife are on the verge of divorce, middle-aged couples, have long lost the passion for life, not all love, can be smoothly transformed into family affection, may also turn into hatred.
Akio's daughter loves freedom, and she prefers to stay with her grandmother.
In fact, the heroine of the movie "Hello, Mom" is Akio's mother.
In the movie, Akio returns to his hometown to visit his mother, in fact, to find his familiar rhythm of life and escape the constant pressure brought by the big city.
However, when he returned to his mother, he found that her mother was no longer the person he knew.
The mother in my memory, always wearing an apron, was busy in the kitchen. And the mother in front of her, full of vitality, dressed fashionably and young, warm love, between her eyebrows, the corner of her eyes, the look is flying.
The mother's dear man is a priest, a charming and low-key man. His mother was willing to listen to the pastor talk about his dreams, his past, and why he chose to be a pastor.
When listening to these stories, the mother's eyes released the gaze of a young girl Huaichun.
All this was too foreign for Akio, who returned in search of warm familiar rhythms and tastes, only to find that he could no longer find the old days that were buried in his memory.
Everyone has to look forward, don't they?
Akio tried to understand his mother and integrate into her life, but in the end, he found that in fact, he was the most incompatible with everything around him;
What he didn't want to do well with the past was also the cowardly self in his heart.
In the end, her mother chose to let go, and instead of staying with the pastor until she was old, she let go of the hands she had always wanted to hold firmly.
It can't be said that his mother is completely for Akio, but until that moment, maybe Akio suddenly figured out, what exactly did he want to find when he returned to his mother?
At the end of the movie "Hello, Mom", Akio resolutely resigned and gave up the career development prospects that seemed great to outsiders. He really went back to his mother.
Akio, who failed in both work and marriage, lives with his lovelorn mother, who seems to have returned to her girlish appearance, and there is an uncontrollable light in her eyes.
Many Japanese movies preach a feeling of loneliness and sadness all the time, and the male protagonist Akio finally completes his self-redemption by regaining the familiar rhythm of life with his mother.
The special significance of "Hello, Mom" is that it is not only a classic movie starring actress Sayuri Yoshinaga familiar to Chinese audiences, but also the final chapter of the 91-year-old Japanese national treasure director Yoji Yamada's "Mother Trilogy" series after "Mother" and "If You Live with Mother", and his perspective has always focused on Japan's aging society.
Just as we croak and detach from our mother's body, when we are soaked in the outside world and exhausted, we finally return to the person we were with in the beginning of life, the mother, and draw warmth and strength.
Hello, Mom! Hello.