frontier, little tokyo

Adonis 2022-04-12 09:01:11

When I was 15 years old, I met Hoshino and Hasumi, watching their snow-white shirts gradually turn dark red and fall into Abi. Shiori's mobile phone pendant has been chanting on the high-voltage line, just like Yoko has been wearing her hat to play "Moonlight" - maybe, Debussy will have to wait until she gets old to have the same bald head as her.

That year I found my ether and only spoke to myself. Everything about Lily Zhou is only about me.
That year, I could not wait to confront the whole world, the ups and downs went up and down for a while, like a drowning fish with nowhere to turn to.
That year can no longer listen to the mellow and lingering classical.
In the blink of an eye, it's really a dream to know how many flowers have fallen.

Then I heard a young man playing "Moonlight" in the shadows, the sound was silent, and only a small piece of bright light was reflected beside the piano.
And here I am, Chen Ming tweeted, it will be the sunrise in the east.
At the end of the whole play, the cast covers the final roar of vocals and the dull sound of the lid closing. I even imagined that the Sasaki family who had left the piano room, together with General Aguioni, who was about to return from the battlefield, were all looking up in the direction of the sun, their expressions indifferent and calm.
No matter how turbulent you have experienced, in the end it will be calm.

When the ideal came into reality, Lao Xu sat at the door and spoke all night. I haven't been able to rise to that height yet, only to see the silence of most people after reality invades ideals. Where is the tipping point.
When I was young, I most wanted to see where night and day meet. Later, I have been looking for a book called "DAY MEET NIGHT", intending to spy on how it ended. I have always believed in idealism that there must be a third space between two things. Just like so many people, lost in the border between ideal and reality. Couldn't find a balance that balances the two. Outside the country, it is likely that war is raging.
border. A straight line extending from Oko's room to Futako's room. To the south is to be passive and indifferent; to the north, one can only decide.
The Sasaki family is a little Tokyo. It is a circle cut into quarters. The father represents the office worker who sticks to the rules and the older brother represents the desperate dream chaser. The mother and the younger brother are people who sway between reality and ideals. It's just that most people will eventually have to succumb to reality. There is a saying: a penny kills a hero.
We can't change anything. If you can't be as open-minded as a famous saying, at least you can bear and endure it.
But Zhou Guoping said that our acceptance already contains resistance.
In a sense, patience is indeed the greatest challenge of man. Even face reality.

(It is said that Kiyoshi Kurosawa made a thriller. Sure enough, such directors are so proficient in the mastery of light and shadow that they can use their changes as a guideline. Even with my level of analysis, I can tell a little bit about the way. There are several successions and reconciliations in between.)

The Sasaki family is actually very tolerant.

For example, Sasaki is very concerned about self-esteem. Not a good face. He only does this to his family. I felt that calling him to go to another department to start over was an insult to myself as the head of the general affairs department, so I voluntarily resigned. Concealing unemployment from family is based on the machismo and responsibility of the main breadwinner of the family. Annoyed at the rudeness of the eldest son, disciplining the younger son very strictly, saying "what you say can't be changed easily", "it's okay to not have the dignity of being a parent in front of the child", and even more will not apologize.
It cannot be denied that Sasaki is a diligent and honest man. When everything went unsatisfactory, I still endured it, and even did the most disgusting work. And there are people who know the same situation, already overwhelmed and committed suicide.
If he hadn't picked up the money, if he hadn't met his wife, if he hadn't been in a car accident, what would have happened to Sasaki later?
Was he really desperate when he fell into the trash and cried and said "I want to start over"? The self who taught his son to be "honest and not deceived" took money that did not belong to him, and said to Gao Li that it was a flogging of the soul and a denial of self-worth, let alone fleeing in a panic under the shocked eyes of his wife? !
Maybe he really thought he was dead when the car would whizz past him. Is it really too hard to live?
However, when he woke up and saw the still obscure sky, many things were different. It's okay to die, what can't you do? The source of all evil in that envelope was thrown into the Lost and Found, and the orange-yellow overalls on him were much more KIRAKIRA. To put it vulgarly, he withstood the test of morality and his self-esteem was preserved. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the sky is high and the sea is wide, and the poor are also free.

(For this reason, please let me admire the director's ability to control light and shadow again. The right time and the right emotions, the brightness of the picture has been improved, and the whole thing is suddenly open and relaxed. As an aside, I don't know why, this old face of Kagawa Teruzhi clearly looks like Extremely vicious, because Mao's aura is extremely honest...)

Of course, if the mother of the Sasaki family was not so calm, the Sasaki family might have turned upside down long ago. In fact, it's true that Agui's eldest son persuaded his mother to divorce. As a wife, this woman is considerate, virtuous, and eloquent. As a mother, she is amiable, tolerant, and patient. She has a milf-smiling charm, and has a son to support her. Where do you need to aggrieve yourself and an old boss to live a rigid life, why not find a good one? People remarry. But she smiled softly and said, "How can this family do without me, and housewives also have a happy time." Her eyes were full of contentment. Is it true that at that age, most women can go beyond acceptance and become enjoying the life of firewood, rice, oil and salt? He didn't even mind cheating, and helped her husband complete the lie to herself.
How many camouflages are there. Most of the time, she comes and goes by herself, buying vegetables, cooking, cleaning, pretending that she has no desire, and letting life grind her from beautiful flowers to old age. Or lie to yourself that it is a dream of Nanke, and you will have a different life when you wake up. But in fact, all she wanted was a car that could open and close automatically. It would be very good to give herself a momentary relief.
If there were no thieves, no burglary, and no hijacking of her car; if she hadn't seen her husband in the most desolate form, what would have happened to Sasaki's mother later?
She finally had the opportunity to leave everything behind and be herself. Open the hood and step on the accelerator to the end, and she wants to run all the way to the end. Endured for too long. She kept thinking about what could save her from the bottom of the water and felt like she was about to suffocate. In the darkness she saw a very low, star-like bright band on the other side of the sea. That was her redemption. For the first time, she was finally able to let go of her composure and burst into tears.
Then the sun gradually rises from the sea level, and every inch of light that hits her face will take her out of the long gray world. God said: Let there be light, and there is light.

(Speaking of which, the long shot is beautiful, the lens, light and OST are perfect COMPLEX!!)

It took me years to finally understand that compromise is a struggle. Kenji knew it when he was in sixth grade. Saying childish words like "Adults are really selfish", or the black dog, the black dog, gave up the piano that he has to learn without eating. This young and mature boy has long known that this is just a tactic, called dormancy. He always does what he thinks is right with a natural expression on his face. He was the first to cross the border, never confounding the distance between reality and ideals, getting used to the sacrifice and patience required in the process earlier than the rest of the family, and did not seem to value the later. And no one dared to say what happened next.


It is rare for me to be so intrigued by myself that I can still write nonsense after watching the movie. Thinking about it carefully, it is rare to read and write these things seriously. In fact, it is far, far away from being serious. The Sasaki family is just a corner of Tokyo, living with my favorite stubbornness and earnestness.
Then it occurred to me that my borders seemed to be left behind. Now sitting at the poles, it is not a climate. Either way.

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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.