"Tokyo Sonata": Questions and Answers on "How to Face the Fault"

Libbie 2022-09-05 13:08:31

Uncle Posted: 2009-12-09 00:38
SDMS Rating: 89.5

Although the whole "Tokyo Sonata" spends almost three-quarters of the time talking about how bad a situation is, it is actually a hopeful work The film, which explores the theme of "How do we deal with mistakes?" Like many promising films, "Tokyo Sonata" uses fragmented plots to repeatedly ask and answer itself: "Is the situation bad enough? Can it get worse? A little? So what's the worst?"

Like a scalpel, the film slices open, layer by layer, a Japanese family built with countless stubbornness and forbearance. The eldest son, Agui, is ignorant and ignorant. He hopes that one day the world will be turned upside down and all the rich will suffer. His unreasonable head is full of ambition and stubbornly thinks that joining the army is to revitalize Japan and protect his family.
The second person to be exposed is his father, Long Ping. For the sake of the image of the family, he has no intention of taking back what he said even if he is wrong. He believes that this is the "dignity" of being a father. For this dignity, he has to pretend to be busy with his career every day, and as a result, he works everywhere, eats relief meals, and then goes home to vent his dissatisfaction with his younger son. And as her mother Hui said, "your dignity is just that little bit".
What about the mother? She kept saying that being a housewife also has happiness, if it wasn't for an accidental hijacking, she would have kept herself in the dark, and was almost willing to deceive herself to the end of the day. When she was about to dedicate her body to the hijacker, her mother Hui finally admitted: I hope everything is just a dream, and when I wake up, I find that I have a different life.
The youngest son, Kenji, is the biggest victim of the whole family's mistakes. He is obviously talented in music, but he is almost buried because of his father's attitude of making mistakes. When he was imprisoned for fare evasion, he was reluctant to disclose his name and family, because this was a family that he could not trust and feel safe, so Kenji was regarded as an adult prisoner, and his fingerprints were placed on the indictment. There are stains in life.
In fact, this is an ordinary family, and every audience can find the shadow of their own family in the story. Father Long Ping's unemployment, like the first domino to fall, magnifies all the discord in this family. Although the entire "Tokyo Sonata" is almost three-quarters of the time about how bad a situation is, it's actually a hopeful film that explores the theme of "How do we deal with mistakes?"
Like many Like a hopeful movie, "Tokyo Sonata" uses fragmented plots to repeatedly ask and answer itself: "Is the situation bad enough? Can it get any worse? What about the worst?"
Perhaps for a normal Unemployment is an unacceptably bad thing for a man, so when it comes, how do you escape it by all means? Like Long Ping's friend Black Beard, the phone automatically rings five times an hour, pretending to be busy, but in the end, he and his wife both committed suicide in the gas.
And Long Ping is a positive specimen, but he did it reluctantly. Sneakly, Long Ping went to interview after interview, and even absurdly sang K in front of the interviewer, and finally he got a job as a toilet cleaner. And when his wife found out about this job, he collapsed to the point of being shameless.
Therefore, God arranged for him to have a car accident that he could survive, so that he could seriously figure out "the situation is not the worst, and what can be the worst?" Can I go back?" She drove to the beach, almost about to throw herself into the sea, but was hugged by the kidnappers. At this time, Hui had given up resistance and let the other party ravage her body, because in her opinion: her life is already like this, how can she be ruined? However, the sea breeze at night made her suddenly see a star, "although very low but still very bright".
Mother Megumi and father Longping came home from the end of their lives and ate breakfast as usual with their youngest son Kenji, and now they can peacefully discover the good in their sad life. And the eldest son finally understood in the army that the values ​​exported by the United States are not absolute, and he decided to stay in the Middle East.
At the end of the film, Longping and Hui finally let Kenji take the exam at the music school. The whole movie doesn't have much soundtrack, and at this moment, director Kiyoshi Kurosawa gave Kenji time to perform the piano music completely. In this long plot vacuum, the director left enough space to let every audience recall the sweetness and bitterness of the film. Everyone will be deeply moved by Debussy's "Moonlight" at this time, but I am sure Every emotion is different.

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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.