My neighbor Jun Yamada
I live in a peaceful and calm neighborhood. After nightfall, you can see the lights in the opposite building by leaning against the window; the lights on the road downstairs are flashing. I have always had a fondness for such a sight; it truly feels the presence of life.
I just don't know if you watched "My Neighbor Jun Yamada" this week?
Forgive me for being lonely, if I hadn't recently read The Winds of Ghibli, I wouldn't have known "My Neighbor Jun Yamada."
The Winds of Ghibli have three passages:
One:
Former Nippon Television chairman Shiki ichiro, who loves Takahata's work, considers "My Neighbor Jun Yamada" to be the no.1 of Ghibli's work. Suzuki asked, "What do you think is good about Mr. Takahata?"
"He just fascinates me!"
"What the hell are you obsessed with him?"
The clan family thought about it for a moment and replied:
"He has the lingering smell of Marxism in him!"
Part 2:
"The joys and sorrows of ordinary people are really insignificant from the perspective of a bystander. But for the parties, every feeling is so real, as a person, this is actually the most fundamental, I think we should cherish these feelings as sunshine. ”
Third:
Takahata spent three or four years writing the script for The Tale of Hui Ye Hime, which was originally three and a half hours long.
So on a weekend night, I found "My Neighbor Yamada Jun" and immediately watched it.
Yamada Jun is a middle-aged uncle in his forties; this film mixed with life chores, family troubles, work toil, classical background music, and haiku, if it is not Yamada Jun's age and situation, I am afraid it is difficult to fully empathize. But that doesn't stop him from showing a lifestyle that is repeatedly knocked down by cold humor. The little children are calmer than the adults, and the adults are constantly lost and speak strange logic; as if the older they are, the more trivial they are, the more chaotic and unexplained they are, and then they suddenly wake up and stubborn at a certain age. Is this also an allusion to the inevitable law of life?
Maybe Yamada Jun is really like a neighbor who lives next door to you and me; on this side of the wall I listen to music, write articles, the lights are gentle, quiet, and quite cheerful; the other side of the wall may be playing a TV remote control battle, or discussing to buy lettuce, cucumbers, ham, light bulbs, garbage bags.
The details of the life of Yamada Jun's family are really scary, such as throwing the family's garbage package into the park garbage can, such as everyone eating wild ginger and constantly throwing it around; Yamada Jun also has lost dreams, and he does not understand how the wish of the messenger of justice when he was young has become this miserable and cowardly appearance, so that he sits on the swing of the moon and night for a long time, and at the end, he also has a haiku sentence: "Cave, miserable, cricket under the unicorn fairy."
Caves, miserable, crickets under the unicorn fairy
In a way, this is a somewhat inexplicable film, although the cold humor is pervasive, but there is warmth and loss in the details, warmth is understated, and the loss looks profound.
Yamada Jun said a long paragraph in the movie around one hour and thirty-two minutes:
Today is an auspicious day of the zodiac...
[… …]
Life can be said to be full of unpredictable things,
Even so far, it seems as if everything is going well,
But all of a sudden, it will be pushed to the bottom!
And, it is no one else who pushes you, it is the person you trust the most!
But...
The most important thing in life is to be open...
[The crowd was stunned]
Thinking openly is the biggest secret to not being discouraged, not frustrated, and not crazy when facing any situation.
No matter how bad the other person's behavior is, as long as it is not out of malice, then as long as you think openly, you can tolerate it.
No! You can't live without inclusion.
"No way! No ruts!"
This sentence is not only negative; it is absolutely indispensable;
It is the trick to run a happy family, and it is also the key to optimistically facing life and breaking through difficulties.
No matter how difficult things are,
Just chant like a mantra,
"What's the solution?" this seemingly negative sentence,
It should also cheer up...
It is really difficult to say what kind of role these words of some Ah Q spirit can play; in any case, it is good to help Yamada Jun temporarily relieve the pressure. So after watching this movie, you may be silent: we adults, may understand that this is probably the truth of life; then you may also casually say, "What else can I do?"
So what else can be done?