It's actually a satire.

Clarissa 2022-03-18 09:01:09

This film is so highly rated, I watched it over the weekend, and it turned out to be like eating flies.

When I saw it halfway through, I thought it was a satire, a satirical drama about Japan's real society. This kind of country customs, female discrimination, family division of labor, hierarchy, red tape, reading air, conformity atmosphere, connivance to children and obedience to the elderly make me a foreigner who has lived in Japan for a long time. This kind of awkward feeling is not easy for Japanese people to feel when they are in this mountain; and foreigners who have not stayed in Japan for a long time may yearn for this kind of unity that looks like a mirror on the surface. Some of the comparisons (like the occasional replay of live baseball) made me think at one point I was paying homage to Brave New World.

In the end, it ended up being a family fun. It turns out that the director is not criticizing social issues, but praising Japanese-style family feelings (there should be a sincere smile here).

There are many unnatural places in the plot, and many childish places. Not to mention one by one. The most obvious is the sudden large number of heroine scenes at the end, which is very abrupt. In the end, the male protagonist's feeling of liking people was taken advantage of.

The male protagonist is actually very pitiful. It is equivalent to being deceived into the countryside, embarrassed throughout the whole process, picked up when it is useful, and rejected when it is not useful, repeated several times. And the heroine is really not here to be funny, it's actually very selfish, from start to finish. The only place where he showed a little kindness was the part of chasing the police car, and it didn't go very far in the end - shouldn't the Japanese drama run at this time.

In fact, the real hero and heroine are Kazuma and grandma.

PS: The squid sashimi is too hard for the elderly to chew, so it is recommended to replace it with tuna.

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Extended Reading
  • Theresa 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    I know it looks good, but I don't know how good it is.

  • Kayleigh 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    One of the four most popular books in Japan this summer, last year's box office miracle film, and this year's Japan SF Awards, but compared with Mad House's Jin Min, it's still not enough. There are too many people talking, many settings are not detailed enough, and there are too many story lines. Seeing that the story refers to "Real Name" and "Die Hard 4", it has such a reputation just by virtue of house, cuteness and love. It turns out that what is missing in this world is so simple.

Summer Wars quotes

  • Sakae Jinnouchi: [a letter in an envelope reading: To the family - read when the time comes, from passed away granny Sakae Jinnouchi, read in her voice] To my family. // First, take yourselves a deep breath. Crying and carrying on doesn't help anything. Make my funeral arrangement a simple affair, just our close friends, and then go back to your day-to-day lives. I don't have anything to leave you in a way of an inheritance. That said, I'm sure my old acquaintances will keep an eye on Jin'nôchi family. No need to worry, my dears. You've always been hard workers, and I know you'll keep it up. And grant me this. If Wabisuke should ever make his way back home... He's been gone ten years and counting now, so who's to say if that day will ever come... But if he does, I'm sure he'll be hungry. He never took proper care of himself and probably weren't even eating right. So, let him have as many vegetables from the fields as he wants. And the grapes and peaches, too, he always loved those the best. I remember the day we first met. Even now it's clear as a bell, his little ears look just like my husband's. Definitely, his father's son. We walked through the field of morning glories and I told him he would be our child from that day forward. He didn't say a single word, but his hand wrapped all the tighter around my finger. I was so happy to be giving him the family he needed. I like to think he could feel the happiness radiating off of me. Never turn your back on family, even when they hurt you. Never let life get the better of you. And if you remember nothing else, remember to find time to eat together as a family, even when times are rough; especially when times are rough. There's no lack of painful things in this world, but hunger and loneliness must surely be two of the worst. Thanks to you, my precious family, I didn't know a moment of either of those the last ninety years. // Love you all. Good bye.

  • Ri'ichi Jin'nôchi: ...You have to protect others in order to protect yourself.

    Tasuke Jin'nôchi: At the Self-Defence Force motto?

    Ri'ichi Jin'nôchi: Not exactly. I just lifted it from Seven Samurai.

    [highly appreciated Japanese film from 1954 by Akira Kurosawa]