I talked to my life coach a few days ago and said that I am still in the stage of full of pink bubbles fluttering. The life mentor taught me: sooner or later, I must land and be proactive. At that time, although I agreed with my lips, what I thought in my heart was that it was really practical and boring.
The Japanese movie "Gravity Clown" tells a story that floats in the air.
Ryo Kase's older brother Izumi is a graduate student studying DNA, and Okada Shosei's younger brother Haru does the work of cleaning graffiti, and the two live a peaceful and happy life with their father. One spring, the link between the location of the graffiti and the serial arson case is discovered, and the brothers begin to intervene in the incident, during which Quanshui discovers the relationship between the text in the graffiti and the DNA, leading to one of the key words of the film: congenital heredity and acquired environment.
It is mentioned in the film that people who have a criminal record when they are young have a higher probability of continuing to commit crimes than ordinary people when they grow up. So what if it's the offspring who inherited this gene? Will the offspring who are raised in a completely different environment from their parents continue to be affected by the "criminal gene"?
Haru is the owner of the "crime gene".
In fact, Izumi and Haru are half-brothers, Haru's biological father is a criminal who raped 30 people in a row in high school, and her mother is the victim. After the incident, the family moved elsewhere, but the mother found out that she was pregnant. Dad accepted the child in obedience to his own inner voice, and Mom gave him the same name as his eldest son.
The criminal, who had been in custody for only 5 years in a juvenile correctional facility, was now running a custom shop and even tried to blackmail his former victims.
Izumi is undoubtedly in love with his brother, and he usually seems to be honest and honest, he has made a series of plans, from knowing whether the criminal repented, to learning how to kill people online, a "normal person" made a decision to exceed the law in order to protect the happiness of his family, but just before implementing the final plan, he finally understood the meaning of graffiti.
And Chun is not as cheerful as it seems, since his mother accidentally died after learning of his own life from his father, he believes that he has brought shame to his family, the more the family does not mind, the happier the family, the more he is pulled down by the gravity of reality. He hated his genes and even became a little ascetic, so much so that Izumi began to doubt Haru's sexual orientation...
Haru's answer was still great
Haru had to say goodbye to the dark past, though it wasn't his fault. So he began to set fires in succession, each place of fire where the criminal had committed a crime, in order to remind the criminal to make him reflect. After discovering that the criminal had no intention of repenting, Haru made the same decision as Izumi.
It's a big deal, and Chun takes her brother and baseball bat with her every time she does something big, otherwise she won't feel at ease. That's why he used his brother's familiar DNA as an element to create graffiti to attract his brother's attention, he didn't want to pull his brother into the water, but he was never timid, hoping that at least his brother would be present.
And the spring water did arrive.
As Haru brandished a baseball bat at the man who had brought misfortune to him and his family, I remembered "The Drowning Knife" I had seen before. Also due to legal problems, the perpetrator has not been punished enough, and the victim has been carrying pain and even secondary injury, the protagonist also chose to erase the shadow with his own hands in exchange for the strength to continue to move forward. In the film, Haru has been quoting Gandhi, the advocate of "nonviolent resistance", all in order to hide or suppress his own pain.
The background music is soothing and beautiful, reminding me of many sections that use Ode to Joy, Radetzky's March, and other violent scenes to score.
I don't know if Haru also regarded her own existence as part of the crime that criminals need to purify, but in the end the brothers returned home with a gray face, the home of his father who was battling cancer, with a baseball bat.
The father, who vaguely guessed what the brothers had done, talked to the two sons solemnly, and first asked if they had done anything bad, and both brothers denied it. Then, holding Haru's hand, Dad asked if he had done anything big, Chun touched his lips and said no, Dad smiled and said, Haru and I don't lie.
Spring water and spring must have been redeemed by this sentence, and the warmth of the day after tomorrow is enough to eliminate the haze brought by genes.
The movie's name, Gravity Clown, stems from a family of four's experience watching a circus performance. The clown on the stage nervously did not dare to grab the swing that came from the swing, and the young spring worried about whether the clown would fall, and her mother comforted that the clown enjoyed it so much that it would not fall, and even if it fell, it would be fine. Quan Shui then asked why? Dad replied: If you enjoy life, you can get rid of the gravity of the earth.
Mom's next words were also full of happiness: our family seemed to float in the air. This also confirms that the unexpected death of the mother is only an accident, not a suicide because of the shadow of the past.
At this point, the second keyword group of the film is also discussed: reality and happiness. At first glance these two words are not antonyms, but in reality how many people are forced to give up happiness because of reality.
The reality is that a family bears the finger-pointing of many people, raises a child conceived by rape, and is bound by gravity; happiness is that they do not escape, nor endure, but do not care, floating in the air.
The dad who said firmly and proudly "my two sons"
With his own paintings, he fights back against the spring of those who laugh at his family
While teaching Chun not to hit the other party's mother
In the face of his brother's inquiry about "what does rape mean", he uses the wisdom of a child to clumsily make his brother happy
Japanese "春が二階から落ちてきた" pun, the subtitle group translates into two meanings, if the beginning of the film "spring meaning falls from the second floor" is only a season,
Then the "spring, jumping down from the second floor" at the end is that spring is really not bound by gravity and floats up.
I decided to watch the Japanese film "Gravity Clown" because the introduction said that it was "another story form of "Qingzhiyan". Also for the sake of the family "killing the father", Xiuyi, who protects his family with his own strength in "Qingzhiyan", curls up alone in the cold and fragile fish tank, and can only use death to seek relief, while the spring brothers in "Gravity Clown" are warm and tough because of each other and parents who ignore gravity, and get happiness together.
However, whether it is the original novel or the movie is art after all, maybe I still take the initiative to land better...