Film review | The desire to live
2020-07-25
This is another very old movie, a black and white movie!
The protagonist of the story, Watanabe, is a civil servant who works in the Civic Section, and although he is the chief of the section, his main job is to deal with cumbersome official documents, and here you can see the most rigid Japanese appearance!
Don't do practical things and make mistakes, spend time, just try to keep his black hat, the increasingly serious stomach disease, so that he has to go to the hospital for examination, but this result is really ... In less than half a year, he was like a person who had lost his soul, and suddenly he looked much older!
He originally wanted to tell this news to his family (son) for the first time, but the indifference of his family made him lose the possibility of speaking, and in the end he only talked to a wandering poet, a poet who advocated freedom, and took him to enjoy himself all night, so as to perceive the beauty of life!
A hangover, Watanabe, who failed to solve the problem, was even more depressed, and at this time he just met his young female subordinate, Watanabe was attracted by her youthful vitality, and seemed to find the real happy things in life, he indulged in the laughter of girls' youth, and it seemed that his years had not gone far!
But the good times did not last long, the girl began to get tired of the stuffy and old Watanabe, and at the last dinner party, the old Watanabe, it seemed that in the girl, saw his difference, decided to return to his job, do something for the people, so began his final journey!
After watching this movie, I suddenly felt that people's lives are a particularly serious thing, and the director also wanted to ask us through Watanabe's story: How should people live in the end, so as not to waste this life, what is the value and meaning of life?
For Watanabe, death is not terrible, what is terrible is that the life before that is meaningless, that feeling of nothingness in life, let him feel dead, just like he said it himself, it feels like drowning, his eyes are dark, he desperately wants to grasp a straw, but unfortunately he can't catch it, but in fact, the life-saving thing is not necessarily straw, and straw is not necessarily life-saving!
His first straw was his son, who had raised his children with painstaking efforts for many years, but his son's filial piety was chilling him, and Watanabe blamed his mediocre life on his son, but the girl's words made the father who had experienced vicissitudes dumb: He did not want you to be a mummy!
Life itself is its own, there is no special nepotism, Watanabe can choose to live for future children, and children also have the right to choose to live for others! Own worth and pursuit, even if the choice is sad!
Watanabe's second straw is wine, but after the wine color, only more empty Watanabe is left, and the scenes of the scene make Watanabe more uncomfortable, how should Watanabe write his life in the end, in order to be happy and satisfied?
The desire to live, this is what the director asks us, how do people live in the end, in order not to waste this life?
Many people feel very disgusted, after all, such a thing seems to be far away from us, unknown life and death?
But the movie is reversed, and only when people face their own death can they understand the meaning of living!
In fact, no matter how old we are, death is approaching us step by step, in the process, perhaps identity, fame, status, money, affection, etc. can be used as a substitute for the meaning of our lives, can be regarded as the meaning of our life, but this is all?
When you live for yourself, what is the meaning of your life?