"My Neighbor Yamada Jun" is a family comedy, but many people say that watching this movie, laughing and laughing, they cry!
The life described in this movie is very trivial and ordinary, but you will feel inexplicably kind, and you can't help but sigh, this is my home!
It was produced by Studio Ghibli in Japan, which was founded by Hayao Miyazaki and has produced books such as Totoro and Valley of the Wind.
The director is Takahata Hoshi, who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Miyazaki, and the film is adapted from the four-frame manga of Ishii Shouichi, which tells the ordinary life of the Yamada family in the form of sketches combined with watercolor.
The premiere was also a bit old, on July 17, 1999, and in the same year, it was selected as the third outstanding award of the Media Arts and Animation Department of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
The film is not made up of a complete story, but rather a patchwork of dozens of seemingly unrelated chapter rounds.
If it's another movie, and you ask me what the movie is about, I'll give you a brief story line.
But if you ask me about this movie, I have no way to streamline it, I can only tell you, this story of home you have to see and experience for yourself!
Home, in Chinese, was first evolved from the oracle glyph "宀", which can be seen from its glyphs as a place to shelter from the wind and rain, that is, related to the house.
"豕" in ancient Chinese means pig, raising pigs in the house means that you don't have to hunt so hard and dangerous.
In a place where you can live, there is a stable source of food, you can live a stable life, that is, home!
Later, jia yan conjured up the meaning of family, "Poetry Zhou Song Huan": "The Mandate of Heaven is solved, Huan Huan Wu Wang, there are warriors, Yu Yi Sifang, Ke Ding Jie family."
The family is a family of five, a small house and a small courtyard where the Yamada family lives, and a pet dog owned by the Yamada family!
Father Aaron: with an ordinary face, he is a clerk in the miscellaneous goods department of a small company, and he is the pillar of the family, and the whole family is supported by his meager salary. Machismo, sometimes he will call his wife to do this and that, the only thing the family is afraid of is the mother-in-law, because the land where the family built the house is given by the mother-in-law, so he has always felt that he can't look up in front of the mother-in-law.
Mother Matsuko: Ordinary looking, blessed figure, is a full-time wife. Like all stay-at-home wives, she worries about what to eat every day, and after a week of curry, she decided to pluck up the courage to continue cooking curry. She was also a confused and forgetful housewife, and even the courier knew where the seal of her house was, and she herself could not remember.
Brother Ah Sheng: The qualifications are average, and the results are not satisfactory. Teenagers who have entered adolescence no longer cling to their parents and begin to have their own privacy and space, which makes his father Aaron feel that he is a little strange to his son and does not know how to communicate with his son.
Younger sister Nonoko: The youngest child in the family, in the third grade of elementary school, the sense of presence at home is not high, once went out, and was even forgotten by the family in the mall.
Grandmother Mrs. Yamada: She is very old, and her daughter's confusion and forgetfulness are inherited from her. She is also a little cool, a little poisonous old lady, sometimes sad about life and death, but overall it is still very righteous and positive.
In the movie, the eldest son Ah Sheng commented on his family like this: If my father is good and handsome, my mother is in good shape and beautiful and can cook, our family is very rich, my life will be completely different from now, at least if I can achieve the same...
Did you ever have such a thought when you were a child, growing up in an ordinary family, but fantasizing about having a perfect home and starting a new life?
Why does this film feel so intimate and resonate easily, because the home depicted in it is highly consistent with the home that most of us live in, ordinary and ordinary.
A new couple was married in front of everyone, raised children together, built a house in order to let the family have a home, and a new home was built.
In the movie, the marriage of a newlywed couple is likened to two people on the same boat, facing the waves of the sea together, ups and downs, riding the wind and waves together to overcome difficulties.
This is different from the fairy tales in Europe and the United States, in which the princess and the prince have lived happily ever since after they got married. The film compares the combination of a couple to an adventure on a new journey, which is more in line with our lives.
When two people in a boat inevitably have disagreements, go left to right to left and right to right, in which direction should the pulp paddle, at this time must stop and communicate well, otherwise the ship will always be parked in place and cannot sail forward.
Aaron and Pine Nuts sailed in small boats and caught up with flocks of flying geese who were messengers with a package in their mouths.
They picked up the package in the river, it was a giant peach, and when they opened the peach, they welcomed their first child.
This passage is very similar to the origin of Thumbelina in the fairy tale, where Thumbelina's mother is a child found in a flower bud.
When we were young, we asked our parents, where did we come from? Parents would say we were picked up by them.
But you don't actually know that before "picking", they have crossed thousands of mountains and rivers to find you, every child is a gift from heaven to the family, and every child is not easy to come by.
A family of four who first had a son and a daughter was like a cloud, happy and happy. But soon the mother's heart is unbalanced, the child is two people, why only herself is affected!
Fathers who are asked to take their children are in a hurry, and the children are either arguing with each other or grabbing toys.
The life that is happy to float up is finally dragged back to the ground by reality, facing the chai rice oil and salt at home, and facing the heavy responsibility of providing for the house.
Home is a huge, bulky snail, the father pulls it hard in front of it, and the family sits on the snail and waving the flag and shouting.
Home is both a burden and a driving force for moving forward.
Life is most afraid of the consumption of chai rice oil and salt, but home becomes interesting because of chai rice oil and salt.
Life is trivial, a place of chicken feathers, but a home without "chicken feathers" is not a home.
(1) Education issues
Ah Sheng's academic performance is not good, Matsuko has been very worried, so he told her husband Aaron and her mother to ask Ah Sheng a tutor, a student of the National University, come to the house twice a week, three thousand yen a week.
Aaron's eyes lit up as he listened: "I'll come."
Mrs. Yamada next to her hurriedly said: "I will come, twenty thousand is enough."
Ah Sheng heard this conversation inside and ran out to Matsuko and said: Give me the money, I must study well.
Matsuko couldn't help but sigh: This is the case every time!
The issue of education is a serious one, but sometimes it's funny.
(2) Life and death issues
Mrs. Yamada's old sister was sick, and Mrs. Yamada was very sad and went to the hospital in a dismal mood to prepare for comforting her sister.
Unexpectedly, when she arrived at the hospital, her old sister did not grieve about her illness, but told her that she found that the relationship between men and women in the opposite bed was not legitimate!
Live to old age, live and die, gossip on your own!
(3) There is no question of love
After work hours, it was raining heavily, and Aaron found himself without an umbrella. So he called home and hoped that his family would send an umbrella over.
Matsuko answered the phone, and after she understood it, she called out to her son and asked Ah Sheng to bring an umbrella to Aaron.
Ah Sheng ten thousand unwilling, shouted that he wanted to watch TV, Matsuko said that he was very tired and did not want to go, Mrs. Yamada yelled at the side, what's going on, don't you just go to send an umbrella?
Aaron on the other end of the phone exploded and said loudly: No need, I'll go to the supermarket and buy one myself!
Unexpectedly, my wife immediately said: That dare to be kind, by the way, bring a little beef home.
Aaron was so angry that he went to the supermarket to buy an umbrella, passed the place where the beef was sold, went back and forth several times, angry, did not want to help his wife bring it, and finally felt that he had returned to buy it.
Out of the supermarket, not far away, Aaron saw Matsuko with his daughter Nonoko and son Ah Sheng to bring him an umbrella and take him home.
Not every family will be like the DuJiang family, putting my love for you on their lips every day.
Yamada Jun's family never said love, if one day someone in the family said love, they may worry about him, is it not a fever.
It is this family that never says love, but you have experienced warmth and love from it!
You wouldn't have thought that Aaron's life was so stressful, the people were so rough, and he was still a poet!
Occasionally, when life has a feeling, he also writes some sour poems to record his life and beauty.
Look up at the distance where there is poetry, look down at the life at your feet, there is poetry!
In addition to the enemy, it may also be your father and mother!
They grew up with you and know your habits and your disposition. Always get to the point, a word to the point where you care most.
Sometimes you argue with your family, sometimes you even think they are annoying, but when you turn around, you are reconciled again.
Home is a magical place, we want to escape when we are young, and we want to go back when we grow up.
The wanderers of ancient times, perhaps for the sake of ambition, or for the sake of fighting the sword, chose to leave home.
And every festive season, but also think of relatives.
In modern times, when we leave home to study or work, you will find that there is no sense of festival without family.
Living the New Year alone, even if it is noisy and lively outside, you will feel that this has nothing to do with me.
In the movie, the first snow of winter, Aaron's family took a family portrait, the meaning is not the first snow, nor is it this family portrait, after all, it can be taken at any time.
What is meaningful is the family portrait of the first snow in winter, the family has long been integrated with the special day, without any party, it loses its meaning.
What makes sense is not a festival, but a festival with family together.
Because of this, every Spring Festival, we fly home like migratory birds.
Home is our root, cherish the relatives around us, cherish the current time, happiness is hidden in our ordinary life!
Yu Ji Tao Doll: Headline emotional field writer, a science student but a love for words, full of curiosity about all the unknowns in life, hope to use a pen to share life with you.