Dignity

Evie 2022-09-16 05:54:49

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"It's very dignified to rent 40 square meters." To a certain extent, I also think so. After all, if you buy a house with insufficient accumulation, to a greater extent, you may be forced to become a house slave and will be pushed up the house price. piece. But on second thought, even if I really want to take root in a 40m2 house, where can I rent these houses? The national policy is a stipulation. Generally speaking, 70% of the units in the new real estate are smaller than 90m2, but the small units that young people can really afford are still just the cake in their minds, which is beyond imagination.

Sadly, the house turned out to be a measure of dignity. In my opinion, dignity is about the heart, and a house is the most basic living facility for people in a civilized society. Now that the house is tied to dignity only shows that something is wrong with our housing market. In fact, if you look at it a little, you can see that even people who own a house do not necessarily have dignity.

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Japanese film "Tokyo Sonata" is about the spiritual crisis of an ordinary family living in the suburbs of Tokyo. Mr. Sasaki was the head of the family, and his job loss made his already shaky authority in the family even more vulnerable. Their family does have a house, and even a family of four lives in a house similar to a villa. However, his youngest son Kenji's wish to learn the piano was not supported by his family, so he had to use his lunch fee as tuition to steal the piano; his mother's time was spent in the trivialities of daily life, and an accidental robbery allowed her to drive a car in Speeding on the highway, her stagnant life was activated instead. Mr. Sasaki, the mainstay of the family, can no longer support it. After being hit by his wife and doing cleaning work in a shopping mall, he ran all the way, unable to face himself and his family, and ended up in a car accident.

Japan's social hierarchy is rigid, and various moral standards are still overwhelming to this day. A few years ago, I only remember that this country invaded our country and developed rapidly into the ranks of developed countries after World War II. After I work, I can better understand the anxiety of the people in this country. In a small country, frequent earthquakes, and lack of resources, although there are Japanese-made products that swept the world, the reality of its economic strongman and political dwarf does not add much pride to the people. The Sasaki family is a typical Japanese family, the elder and the younger are superior and inferior, the division of labor in the field and internal affairs is clear, and the dignity of each person comes from the inherent concept. Perhaps those ideas are the glue of the family, but more often they are the shackles that limit the personality.

At the end of the film, the iceberg between the family begins to melt after the disaster. The most important thing is that Mr. Sasaki can finally accept his job calmly, the pressure brought by tradition has eased on him, and his father, who was once unemployed, has begun to find his dignity elsewhere.

In this world, there are too many people who provide values ​​and related standards, but only those who follow their heart are the happiest.

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Extended Reading
  • Chesley 2022-04-11 08:01:01

    The family theme is an outlier in Kurosawa Kiyoshi's works. What remains unchanged is that the car ride is still a symbol of the ruins of modern people. This seems to have become a convention in Kurosawa Kiyoshi's films before the daily turns to the opposite. The difference is that the ruins are followed by thoroughness. Fall or rebuild. This film chooses the latter, which is rare in Kurosawa's films, and returns to the dining table after everything is destroyed as a starting point for a new start. After all, since the Ozu era, Japanese family movies have often built family relationships with oriental cultural flavors through actions at the dinner table, as Yamada Yoji did, and Ishii Satoshi.

  • Eliseo 2022-04-16 09:01:09

    There are too many things I want to express. After picking up the money, I stepped from realism to magic.

Tokyo Sonata quotes

  • Megumi Sasaki: Screw your authority.

  • Megumi Sasaki: How wonderful it would be if my whole life so far turns out to have been a dream, and suddenly I wake up and I'm someone else entirely.