The director wants to express too many things in one film, but it seems like the last sentence of Photon: The heart is a small cup, if the feelings are too full, the tears will stay. If the movie wants to express too much, my brain will not be enough. To be honest, writing this movie review, I feel like I have no idea where to start.
Although it is classified as a horror movie, in my dictionary, it does not have any horror at all. I don't know why, Japan is a nation that likes to discuss borderline mentality. Many of their films reflect the mentality of people who are small or autistic, or crazy, or cynical, or have no meaning to survive. Perhaps this has something to do with the extremely meticulous part of the character of the island country and the Japanese. In a word, movies with the theme of suicidal mentality and cruel youth are also emerging one after another in the Japanese film industry. When I saw the chapter 2 part, I really guessed that the movie wasn't a companion to the "suicide cycle". It is only later that the essential difference between the two can be discovered.
Let me try to tell the story, though the tangled and tangled ending I believe I absolutely can't tell.
Noriko is the eldest daughter in the family but has never communicated with her parents. Finally, one day, after her outbreak, she ran away from home and went to Tokyo, where she met her netizen Kumiko. Kumiko runs a company called Family Rental, and no matter what kind of family you need, she can find it for you and provide door-to-door service on request. With nowhere to go, Noriko joins the company, and at the same time she also fulfills her wish to leave her hometown to see everywhere. Noriko did not break the contact with her younger sister Jiazi, so Jiazi soon followed in her sister's footsteps, ran away from home, came to Tokyo, and joined the same company. In the company, everyone is an actor who has abandoned the past, and they do not recognize each other. Only in the service can they become intimate.
Noriko and Kako's mother committed suicide after the two daughters left after the pressure was too great, but the father was convinced from the clues left by the children that they were not dead and embarked on the road of search. He commissioned his friend to contact Kumiko's company and hired Kumiko, Noriko, and Yoshiko to play family members. At the dinner table, the family finally "reunited". The father repented of his past selfishness and hoped to start over. The "family" happily took a bath, chatted, drank tea and smiled. Kako walked out of the room in the middle of the night and looked at the old sleeping appearance of her father. She was wearing the green windbreaker that her sister had when she ran away from home. On the empty street at 6 a.m., she ripped off the red thread on the cuff of the windbreaker and headed towards the boundless street. Go to the end. The older sister opened her eyes after falling asleep and picked up everything about Noriko again.
In my opinion, the director is just trying to tell this or that story in the movie, but the ending is unknown, like life.
Youth is cruel, because we have to go through the process of growing and tearing. We try to mature but do not want to accept the shackles of the rules, so we inevitably collide with the school, with the family, with the society, and even with the past. Grow up in blood. Slowly we remember our planet, everything has rules of the game, including growth.
The meaning of existence. Each of us, consciously or unconsciously, plays someone else. As the unknown man said to his father, have you contacted yourself? I want to ask, what is the real me? Noriko, Kumiko, and Kako are constantly acting as someone else, someone else's child, someone else's wife, someone else's mother, someone else's granddaughter, wearing too many masks, they forget themselves, and at the end, I don't know which one is the best. its own face. Junji Ito has a manga called Face Thief. It tells the story of a girl who learns to imitate the face of anyone who has been in contact with her for a long time in order to win the favor of a boy. In the end, all the teachers and students in the school put on masks, so that she could not imitate the beautiful face, and she also collapsed because she could not remember her own face. The Buddhist scriptures also say: All living beings are Buddhas in their own right, but because of the defilements and defilements, they are the true Buddhas. Personally, I agree with Noriko's final approach. She has returned to her essence, while Kako has not yet been fulfilled.
Death and suicide. The essence of Kumiko's purpose in establishing this club is not suicide, but sacrifice, sacrifice to this society. As they say, they will kill themselves only if the character needs it. In this society, everyone wants to be a wolf, everyone wants to be the most beautiful flower, no one wants to be a rabbit, no one wants to be a vase, then they will do it. If you want to share the joy of family, ok, we can warm you; if you want to confess to your lost child, ok, we listen; even if you want to kill your unfaithful wife, ok, we are willing to bear it. There is a kind of fearless sacrifice spirit that feeds the tiger with one's body and goes to hell. In my opinion, there are narrow-minded thoughts that are biased, but I also believe that everyone has their own understanding and feelings.
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and many more, including human nature, including emptiness, including family affection. Speaking of this, I suddenly felt that what this film may not be about is only love. There are also many metaphors in the play, which are related to the main lines before and after. I really don't want to spoil it any more. Because there are collective suicide clips of circular suicide, I still recommend people who can afford it to watch it.
In addition, there are a large number of LOMO-style street shooting clips in the film, the sunlight shining down from the diamond shape, the red wall covered with green leaves, the quaint wrought iron door, the lazy cat, which contain all the warmth but tell a cold story .
Life is a circle, but because of the infinite non-circulation of "π", the circle of life is never perfect.
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