The cool night of boyhood, the summer of Masahiro

Vito 2022-04-21 09:03:02

Maybe this year's summer is too hot. These days, I will be sleepy except for sleeping, and I inadvertently recall the summer vacation when I was a child. For more than 10 years I can remember the beginning of summer generally being the end of a semester and the day of my birthday. There is a problem here. The quality of my birthday is absolutely linked to the final grades, and my grades are not mentioned. In summer vacation, there are basically no friends who specially come to celebrate my birthday. So the beginning of each summer for me coincides with the irritability under the scorching sun. The air in Shenyang more than 10 years ago is not very good in my memory. Even in summer, the sky is hazy and hot, and clear blue sky is actually rare in summer. During summer vacation, I usually have to attend some cram schools or tutoring, and occasionally I can go out to travel, but I am a lazy person, so it is difficult to feel any fun. But there are those summer homework threats after school starts, so even a summer vacation like this is reluctant for me to let it pass quickly.

In the early days of elementary school, there was probably no air conditioner installed in the house. Although my memory is not very reliable, there were always a lot of people in our community at night, and the noisy and playful children were playing mahjong with their plantain fans bare-chested in the yard. Sir, an old lady sitting on the side of the road in the community. My feeling is that in the summer in the northeast, if it is in the slight cool breeze at night, the cooling effect is still very good. Now I don't know how, but it is more suitable for cooling than the sultry heat in the south. Of course, the children don't just sit there, play in threes and fives until late at night until they are scolded by adults and go home, and then make an appointment to continue the next day. Before you know it, day after day has passed.

The teenagers will always grow up, but every era has its teenagers, and now I come back every day to see those children in the community (there are always a lot of children in the community) They can play a lot of things now, there are many kinds of skateboards and water guns. Community-organized games are far from just running around like we were back in the day. It's good, but I don't know why I see their backs running into the distance, and my eyes will become wet without knowing it. At this time, I have a real feeling that I have grown up.

I watched the movie "Kiujiro's Summer" because of Hisaishi's "Summer", but before I knew Director Kitano Takeshi, I knew about the comedian ビートたけし, so maybe the feeling of watching it at first will be different from others. .

The reason I thought it must be a comedy at first, and I was only 14,5 at the time. I don't have a deep impression, but there is always a question, why is it not Masao's summer but Kijiro's summer? This should be a movie where Kikujiro helps Masao find his mother, and the protagonist is Masao. After watching it, I didn't think much about it, and gradually I forgot about it. It's just that summer has to be listened to many times every summer like a conditioned reflex.

And today I watched the movie again, for no particular reason, but suddenly felt that Kikujiro had overlapped with me who was sad looking at the back of the child. It's of course unlikely, but like those comments, it wasn't Kijiro who helped the child, it was the child who helped him. There are no bad guys in this road movie, only the best things. This may be a kind of utopia for Takeshi Kitano and a kind of nostalgia for his father Kijiro.

I'm only (already) 23 years old. As I grow up, I lose more and more things, and my original dream has long since become a joke, but the children will always spend every summer vacation, and they will always have similar troubles. Then become an adult like me.

Thinking about it makes me relieved a lot, isn't this like Kijiro who was purified by a child?

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Extended Reading
  • Rudy 2022-01-12 08:01:50

    And I only saw the deep loneliness, the loneliness of the two children.

  • Kasey 2022-03-17 09:01:06

    Half laughing in the middle

Kikujiro quotes

  • Kikujiro: [to the teenagers who have stolen Masao's lunch money] Hand over more money or I'll kill you guys!

    Kikujiro's Wife: Quit playing gangster!

  • Kikujiro: Hey, Baldy, you didn't have to take everything off jackass!