"Sunset Sunrise" Everyone should just think about themselves
"I wish there was a movie like this"It was exactly the kind of movie I had been hoping for!!
A movie that conveys the charm of country life, one that helps people who want to live in the countryside visualize it!!
I'm so happy such a movie exists, and I wanted many people to see it! (crying)
When I first heard about this movie,"Oh, I'm definitely watching that"I thought.
Because it had a screenplay by Kudo-kan, whom I love, and starred Masaki Suda, whom I love (lol).
When I watched it, it was even funnier than I expected, with both laughs and tears!
Scenes that left an impression ↓
1) "Can we stop saying 'in a place like this'?" – Momo
I thought, 'Exactly!'
This is from my own experience, but when I was living and working on a farm in a rural area, everyone would say things like, "You must be sick of a place like this by now" or "You want to go back to Tokyo, right?" and even though I said "Not at all!" many times, it didn't feel like it was getting through.
Many young people leave the countryside, so maybe people think, "It's just a place like this anyway," but if you're going to revitalize a town, you have to be proud of your town, and I also thought it could be rude to the people who come there saying they like it. If you have that "it's just..." mindset, both the people and the environment will end up feeling down.
Above all, it really is a wonderful place, so watching this scene made me think again that I want people to say "Isn't it wonderful?" with their heads held high.
2) "It's just that I wasn't born here" – Momo
"It's just that I wasn't born here" – Nishio
Why is it that just because the place we were born is different, people are so complicated?
"Outsiders," "insiders," "this side," "that side."
We're all the same human beings. We're all Japanese, we're all Earthlings, and we're not that different, are we?
3) "Everyone should just think about themselves" – Father-in-law
If they did that, maybe everyone could be happy.
This line really struck me and touched my heart. It's true. Living your life trying to meet other people's expectations is, to put it bluntly, a waste!
People's worries, pity, and things like that are all just noise. People are just making their own assumptions, worrying on their own, and feeling sorry for you on their own.
So you should just live your own life too!If you try to imagine what other people are thinking, there's no end to it. Everyone is being selfish anyway.Life is actually simple ☆ Maybe we're just overthinking things and making them complicated ourselves.
That's the message I took from it!
In the final scene,"The three of us just thought about ourselves, and this is what happened☆" – that part is the best!A father-in-law who gained a daughter and a son-in-law he isn't blood-related to. Momo and Nishio, who are neither a married couple nor siblings. What a new form of family. It's the best.
4) The scene near the end of the movie where Momo and Nishio reunite at that house
I just love this part (tears).
When they first met, they were at maximum alert, saying "Distance!!", but in the end, Momo runs and jumps at Nishio. And with the best smile (I was so happy to see Momo smile like that, I just started crying)!
Finally
Sunset Sunrise isfull of timely themes!
The earthquake, COVID, rural depopulation, vacant house issues, aging... while all these serious social problems are involved, it was great how it was depicted with Kudo-kan's touch—realistic but pop, and a comedy that can make you cry. I thought, "As expected of Kudo-kan!"
Also, about the title
After I finished watching, I thought the title was great. It's not Sunrise/Sunset, is it?It's a sunrise after a sunset.I felt a bright future in the society that will continue to change. New migrants, new town revitalization, new forms of family. I think many things will change, but the countryside is not dying out. Japan is not dying out. I thought it was a title that makes you feel that kind of hope!
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