Survival Family: A Doomsday Road Trip

Electric appliances are an urban-rural gap, and payment is an urban-rural gap. Families are also an urban-rural disparity.

720 Zhengzhou flooded, water, electricity and traffic were cut off throughout the city. 80% of the city’s taxis were powered by new energy sources. After the electricity was exhausted, citizens who wanted to travel from the east to the west of the city could only stop freight operators such as SF Express and Dagou, and negotiate the fare and price on the ground. The taller gets it, and some people shout the price, as long as you can get on the bus. The future Huating community with 5 buildings with a height of 33 floors, due to the surrounding low-lying terrain, the city was surrounded by bad water for several days and could not wait for rescue. All food and drinking water from the only supermarket was snapped up. The news came out that many elderly and children were seriously eating. Worrying, there are pregnant women inside, but there is chaos everywhere. People outside say that the water is too deep here, and we can't get in temporarily.

The subway is flooded to the neck, the Jingguang South Road tunnel is submerged in five minutes, the Internet is completely cut off, and Alipay is truly separated from the sky. increased in the 2000s. This week, I just clicked on "The Survival Family", which had been abandoned after only five minutes of watching.

The apocalyptic world without brain-eating and alien extinction of human beings ─ What if the electrical appliances suddenly stop working?

A small family of four living in Tokyo. The father is a small section chief in a big company, the mother is a housewife who has never killed a fish, and a pair of children who are in the rebellious period of their youth. The dinner scene in the opening scene explains the relationship of the family. The father, who focuses on work, returns home and does not play any educational role. He only expects a hot dinner waiting for him. A pair of children are the most unqualified people in the world. The dialogue between them is always a few demeaning sentences and back to the top, becoming the low-pressure center of the whole family. Mother was used to pretending to be a no-brainer, listening to her husband whining and ranting, always acting like she was fine and talking to her children.

The children's adolescent relationships continue to unfold after returning to the room. The son is unrequitedly in love with the most beautiful girl in his mind. In fact, he is just an infatuated tool person. He doesn't even have the other's LINE, so he can only disguise his affection as a class note and email him . The girl's campus life's best friend is like poison killing her brain cells, shouting "It's annoying, don't pass it on", but the girl's long-lasting troubles are still twittering in the dialog box, and she is envious of the girl 's body. It was an ordinary small family, everyone had their own troubles, and getting along with each other was full of quarrels, time was allotted to other trivial matters, and there was no chance to get to know each other. At the time, they didn't know that all the side effects of technology and economy would be destroyed by sunspots the next day like bacteria.

It's obviously not that simple. It's one thing to lose power to all the transmission lines covered by the electricity meter, but even the car battery, backup generator, and mobile phone are instantly unavailable. I'm afraid things will escalate to a supernatural phenomenon or a high-tech terrorist attack. It has to be explained that even so, people are still in a hurry to go to work and class, and the daily inertia is really surprising. However, the change also starts from this moment. All modern technologies that make people leave the ground are useless. Everything is familiar with seeing and touching. The credit card is really just a piece of plastic, and the truth of luxury is just worthless. Waste, like in extreme environments such as prisons and battlefields, cigarettes and alcohol have become the hard currency of the entire Tokyo at this time.

Japanese movies and Hollywood in similar themes, because of the different handling methods, and the plot trends are also very different. Without the pessimism of Hollywood, without a lot of dirty and bloody corpses and villains who only care about their own interests, director Yaguchi Shijing took the road trip to repair the family relationship after the apocalypse. The family of four rode three bicycles on the road. For small vendors selling bottled water at high prices, the civilized behavior of moderate buying and selling is still recognized by both parties, and there is no violent scene of beating, smashing, and looting.

It seems that from the very beginning, the director will focus on the positive side of the family, and reflect on the society that pursues the material convenience of the city, which is too far away from the simple family with close ties in the countryside. This became more apparent as the family moved westward away from Tokyo, and after his father finally realized how his family viewed him in Osaka, he realized that he had to take on responsibilities that he hadn't taken seriously for years. When they came to the countryside, as a person who watched a lot of Hollywood doomsday movies, they quickly intuited that the old man who suddenly appeared and offered to stay overnight might be Hannibal of the East or some kind of sadistic prisoner. In the end, it was just a need. A lonely old man with a warm family, who can't wait for his children and grandchildren to come back, offers room and board as a condition for a sense of substitution for three generations to live in the same house. After all, people are gregarious animals and animals that need to be touched.

Life in the countryside is about being close to the land, being close to what you eat, and handling it yourself. To a certain extent, it is also facing death and living with this normal reality, compared to the invisible electric slaughtering, assembly line processing, packaging and transportation in cities until Passage sales, everything is handled like magic and delivered to you. I don't see a pig and I don't know that a pig can walk a few steps in a lifetime in a pen. In the city, it is regarded as a primitive bartering behavior. In the countryside, it is simply to exchange the vegetables grown by oneself for the smoked pork from the neighbor. There is no scale of measurement. It is purely the emotional maintenance between the aging neighbors. Greeting each other, "I'm still alive today."

Crisis is a brutal way to force people out of their comfort zone, people will be afraid to complain, there are many unknowns in front of them, and they must reluctantly learn new things without knowing if the rewards are high enough. "In the end, you will find that things are often not as bad as you think." This sentence is often heard occasionally, which is very consistent with the development of the play. What a doomsday movie wants to convey is the hope of changing daily life, a kind of pastoral feeling , the return of family values.

"Survival Family" was launched in 2016. The director set a wooden stick called a global catastrophe and inserted it into the rolling social giant wheel, forcing everyone to pause and think about what is important around them. The effect of the epidemic in 2020 is similar. People began to become interested in cooking, realized the importance of exercise, carbon dioxide emissions plummeted, wild animals who were retreating from the living field entered the streets of the city center, and of course domestic violence cases increased and even The problem of higher divorce rates, but different scripts have different trends.

The family finally arrived at their parents' home in Kagoshima, and lived a comfortable fishing village life by the sea. Even if they had to return to the city after all, they were already a stronger and harmonious family, and the mother could kill a whole fish calmly.