This year's Shanghai Film Festival has contributed a large wave of good films to the audience, among which the most anticipated by Nan Ge is "Fool's Tale".
The appearance at the Shanghai Film Festival brushed out a wave of explosive word of mouth for "Fool's Tales", and "depressing", "cold" and "human nature" were all keywords posted by the audience.
Seriously, Japanese films are absolutely world-class.
This time, "Yuyuki" is adapted from the original novel of the same name by Tokuro Kanai, and is also the debut of director Kei Ishikawa, and the young Japanese actors Satoshi Muki and Mitsuru Manjima act as a pair of brothers and sisters with very complicated relationships in the film.
Judging from the name of the movie, "Foolish Deeds", born as a human being, walks alone in the world, and it seems that a "foolish" word is engraved on the head.
Stupidity and stupidity are different, stupidity comes from innate intellectual defects, and foolishness seems to be a struggle in character, using a "foolish" word to describe all sentient beings, is it superior to look down or sadness from the heart?
The story of "Fool's Tale" begins with a murder case investigated by journalist Takeshi Tanaka, played by his wife,Satoshi Mu, and a series of sentient beings that unfold from this vividly express the so-called "foolishness".
The family that was tragically wiped out belongs to the elite class in the eyes of the public, the male protagonist Tian Xianghaoshu and his wife Natsuhara are both graduates of prestigious universities, with excellent work experience and study experience, graceful and elegant in the world, and happy family relations, how to see belong to the winners in life.
With the investigation of Takeshi Tanaka, the number of people associated with the deceased's family gradually increased, and through interviews with Hiroki Tian Xianghao, Natsuhara's college classmates, ex-boyfriends and others, the elite family in people's eyes gradually revealed the essence of corruption.
Class differences and the struggles of the people living under them become the main tone of the film.
When Tian Xianghaoshu was in college, he was willing to be a spare tire for rich women in order to get job opportunities in large enterprises.
And more than once, he would even find two rich women from large companies at the same time, just to get a job in them, and even, such an act seemed to him to be taken for granted.
The so-called network and interpersonal communication are all tools that can be used in the eyes of Tian Xianghaoshu.
In fact, such ideas are also recognized in our real life, aren't they? Around us, the wine table culture and the socializing between the workplaces are deeply engraved with such a concept, and Tian Xianghaoshu just nakedly shows such ideas in front of people, and he will become an outlier.
With such ambition and execution ability, Tian Xianghaoshu will not become a mediocre person, and his wife will definitely not be stupid and sweet.
In Takeshi Tanaka's investigation, we can see that Natsuhara is very successful in college, which is a very remarkable thing.
In the school where Xia Yuan attended, the door and background became a very important criterion for measuring a person.
As the rich woman who climbed the tree before said, "Japan is not a poor society, but a class society." ”
In a class society, a person's family background is far more important than his personal ability. However, the passage between classes is gradually tightening with the development of the times, and it is becoming more and more difficult to join the upper class, and it is clear that Natsuhara has found a way to deal with the upper class.
As an ordinary person with no background, Natsuhara is a goddess in school, she is beautiful, cheerful, approachable, and has a good relationship with those "insiders", and even becomes a bridge for others to get close to these "second generations".
The reason why Natsuhara is like a fish is very simple, she is good at using resources, these resources can be connections or others, as long as the second generation needs her can always find a way to get it, which is consistent with Tian Xianghaoshu.
On the surface, Tian Xianghaoshu and Natsuhara are happy elite families, but in essence, they are still victims of this class society.
Even though they are good at dancing with long sleeves, they have also gained some resources and lived a fairly good life, they still cannot be regarded as the "background" part.
They are friends who drink and play with the second generation, and they have gained their trust by means of flattery and body betrayal, but in the final analysis, they are just a good tool.
However, compared with this elite couple, the society is much more cruel, and there are many more people who are struggling and living far less than them.
There are more victims at the feet of Tian Xianghaoshu and Natsuhara, who do not have the greed in the bones of the couple, nor the fierceness of unscrupulous means to achieve the goal, and can only be reduced to tools.
The lady of the coffee shop, Natsuhara's college classmate is one of them.
As one of the girls who secretly envied Natsuhara, when Natsuhara threw an olive branch to her, it was difficult for normal people to refuse, but her boyfriend was quickly pried away by Natsuhara, and she immediately broke away from the strange circle around Natsuhara, such an experience can only be called hurt by her, which means that there are more girls who try to contact the upper class through Natsuhara to become Natsuhara's tools.
The story line of the film has two parallel lines, one is an interview investigation into the massacre of the gate, and the other is related to the sister of the male protagonist Takeshi Tanaka, Mitsuko.
Because of child abuse, Photon was imprisoned, and the children who had not been fed for a long time were malnourished in the eyes of malnutrition and even dying, and the case was soon exposed after being discovered, and Photon's tragic life was slowly revealed with the contact with psychologists and lawyers.
Childhood by the father sexual assault, domestic violence can only be regarded as the beginning of the tragic experience of photon, photon's personality is the aforementioned will not fight, let others take, such a person is destined to be the bottom of the class society, if photon still try to climb up, the end is probably more tragic.
"Fool's Tale" shows a cold group portrait of what people struggling below the class look like.
The complexity of human nature lies in the coexistence of good and bad, there is no dualistic opposition, and greed, jealousy and stubbornness in human nature are the essence of the "stupidity" of all sentient beings.
If you want to join the high society, want to have a lover's child, want a peaceful and peaceful life, these wishes, no matter how big or small, are all pinned on human nature, want to go smoothly in the dark and cold world, you are destined to experience these.
"Fool's Tale" gives people the feeling of autumn rain, with a cold wind that blows away the last bit of temperature in the heart.
After watching the movie, Nan Ge has been thinking, "Fool's Tale" is more like a mirror, shining into life, through which we can see our own shadow, perhaps in which we find our own "foolishness" is its meaning.