See You Tomorrow, Everyone
See You Tomorrow, Everyone (IMDB) is a movie that is fairly complex as it explores (in parallel) the growth of boy right after school in the time of life-making choices, and the danchi complex where he lives and chooses to live all his life. The danchi were/are an all-services complex of buildings in the Japanese housing system.
The danchi were supposed to provide you with everything locally, from social assistance to education passing through entertainment and shopping. Everything. You could simply live all your life without leaving the warm 'hug' of an enlarged home and its communities.
That is the choice of the protagonist, who does not want to proceed further than junior highschool in his own education because after it, to go university, he should have needed stepped out of the place. The separation between the danchi, that is on a hill, and the world is a big big staircase. Sometimes he tries to go, to pass this exam of life, to grow, but he cannot.
He has a life inside the danchi, his idealised way to live is still perfectly fitting him, has friends, but thing inexorably are deemed to change. His friends leave, the danchi itself goes through and inevitable transformation, new people coming, and he, the protagonist, he is still and always there. He can't accept the change, he can't accept to grow, he cannot accept to open himself to the world, even if he wants, perhaps.
He has a life inside the danchi, his idealised way to live is still perfectly fitting him, has friends, but thing inexorably are deemed to change. His friends leave, the danchi itself goes through and inevitable transformation, new people coming, and he, the protagonist, he is still and always there. He can't accept the change, he can't accept to grow, he cannot accept to open himself to the world, even if he wants, perhaps.
It is a movie extremely well done by the same creative director of the outstanding Dark Water and the remarkable but very little known Fish Story.
Both my wife and I loved this movie. It is or appears rather, to be light, but it has quite a lot.
Both my wife and I loved this movie. It is or appears rather, to be light, but it has quite a lot.
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