Qi Fan Qi Micro Class (35) "Tokyo Family": The relationship between adult children and parents is distant and polite

I recently watched a Japanese movie "Tokyo Family".

This movie mainly tells a series of stories about an elderly couple who live on a small island in the countryside and come to Tokyo to visit their three children who work and live in big cities.

When the old people came to Tokyo, each of their children expressed great welcome and filial piety.

The eldest son graduated with a doctorate in medicine and came to a clinic in the suburbs of Tokyo. On the first day when his parents came to Tokyo, the eldest son originally planned to take his parents out for fun, but the sudden arrival of the patient put all plans on hold. The neatly dressed parents had no choice but to give up their travel plans and did not go anywhere.

My daughter runs a beauty salon and is very busy with business every day, so she has no time to take care of her parents. It also rained all the time while the parents were staying at their daughter's house, so they had to stay in the room and Heinz couldn't go anywhere.

The younger son works as a temporary worker like a stage artist, but his father thinks that he is not doing his job properly. After finally taking a day off, he took his parents around Tokyo on a sightseeing bus. His parents were in high spirits, but he dozed off repeatedly. He also received calls from work from time to time, and he and his father had an unpleasant disagreement during dinner.

The eldest son and daughter were busy with work and had no time to take care of their parents, so they paid for a room in a high-end hotel for their parents. But my parents were doing nothing in the hotel room. They saw the Ferris wheel outside the window at night and remembered the story of their first love.

Late at night, another guest came to the hotel and a dispute broke out. The old couple sighed: They couldn't sleep in such a good hotel.

The couple who were not used to staying in the hotel returned to their daughter's house the next day. However, the daughter said that her parents could not stay at her house at night. In order to maintain the relationship with her colleagues, they would hold a party at home that night.

The daughter's house cannot be accommodated, and it is difficult to go to the eldest son's house. The couple has nowhere to go. Later, the husband decided to visit an old friend. He heard that his son was doing well in Tokyo and he could sleep at the old friend's house for a night. The wife decided to visit her younger son, help clean up the room, and spend the night at his younger son's place.

After the husband visited an old friend, he found that his friend was also being bullied at his son's house. His so-called son was doing well in Tokyo, and he was just bragging to others out of good looks. The two old men reunited after a long separation, drank happily in the wine house, and expressed their respective concerns. Old people who have successfully given up drinking also get drunk.

The mother had an unexpected gain from her youngest son. The mother found that her youngest son’s home was clean and tidy, not as messy as she imagined. The younger son ate the food cooked by his mother, and the mother and son enjoyed a long-lost reunion time. The mother also met her youngest son's kind and beautiful girlfriend, and she was very happy. At night, the youngest son and his mother talked freely. The mother talked about her love affairs when she was young, her face was so shy that she couldn't help covering her face with the quilt.

In the middle of the night, the drunken father took a taxi back to his daughter's house, but his daughter rejected him and forced him to return to his eldest son's house. The mother returned to her eldest son's house with a smile on her face. At the next moment, my mother suddenly fell to the ground...

My mother passed away suddenly. Perhaps, when she decided to come to Tokyo, my mother had already had a premonition.

At the death of their mother, the eldest son and daughter showed due sorrow and funeral decorum.

However, just after burying their mother, China and the United States discussed dividing the valuable clothing materials left by her mother. Then they were worried that the weather would be bad and they would miss the boat ride back, so they hurried back to Tokyo. .

Only the youngest son and his girlfriend stayed with his father for a few more days.

The younger son eventually left, leaving his father alone in the countryside.

Some people say that parents’ home is always their children’s home, but children’s home is not necessarily their parents’ home.

When children drift away and have their own burdens and pressures in life, it’s not that they don’t want to spend more time with their parents, it’s just that they devote more energy to their own families and lives, and they also have more The helplessness.