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Bright Future may be hard movie to understand...but not really so if u think of what future and dream, two main themes in the movie, mean to those who doesn't know what to hold on to anymore. Teenagers everywhere will have to rethink about there future once they realize that their dreams might not become true, may be not even close. Also, many old people will have to rethink about their future once they realize that they are alone with no one to share or continue their dreams. I think this movie try to portrait the complex feelings and relationship between these 2 groups of people...their loneliness, their longing for something, or better, somoeone to hold on to. Jellyfish are like teenagers who are jailed in the society they don't belong to...the society try to shape them to fit in with what the society expect from them, just like when Mamoru and Nimura try to make the jellyfish survive in normal water, but their success lasts only for a short time. Those teenagers will only become venomous to the society (like d jellyfish) if they cannot find the place where they belong (in the case of the jellyfish, the sea). They will have to realize that although their dreams might not come true but they can have a bright future if they come to face the reality and try to find their place in the world.
All the deep messages in this film blend perfectly with the beautiful and haunting art directing; the image of the jellyfish are the perfect representative of loneliness and venomousity that lie within every lost teenagers (those who's still in between childhood and adulthood). All the casts played their role with hearts...and that make we care for all of them. Kurosawa has, once again, crafted an art for those who can look beyond the film's superficial beauty to understand its philosophical core. His script might be too open-ended with not enough explanations to satisfy every viewers, but that's also the beauty of it; everyone will at least got some messages from the graphical impact and in the end they can interpret the movie anyway they like. The final scenes in the movie, the image of teenagers walking in the street is no different from the jellyfish swimming in Tokyo's canal, some of them will sting innocent people who came in their ways, but I think Kurosawa, as he has most of those jellyfish find their way to the sea, hope that most of them will be able to find their bright future, eventhough it might be different from what they dreamed.
Bright Future may be hard movie to understand...but not really so if u think of what future and dream, two main themes in the movie, mean to those who doesn't know what to hold on to anymore. Teenagers everywhere will have to rethink about there future once they realize that their dreams might not become true, may be not even close. Also, many old people will have to rethink about their future once they realize that they are alone with no one to share or continue their dreams. I think this movie try to portrait the complex feelings and relationship between these 2 groups of people...their loneliness, their longing for something, or better, somoeone to hold on to. Jellyfish are like teenagers who are jailed in the society they don't belong to...the society try to shape them to fit in with what the society expect from them, just like when Mamoru and Nimura try to make the jellyfish survive in normal water, but their success lasts only for a short time. Those teenagers will only become venomous to the society (like d jellyfish) if they cannot find the place where they belong (in the case of the jellyfish, the sea). They will have to realize that although their dreams might not come true but they can have a bright future if they come to face the reality and try to find their place in the world.
All the deep messages in this film blend perfectly with the beautiful and haunting art directing; the image of the jellyfish are the perfect representative of loneliness and venomousity that lie within every lost teenagers (those who's still in between childhood and adulthood). All the casts played their role with hearts...and that make we care for all of them. Kurosawa has, once again, crafted an art for those who can look beyond the film's superficial beauty to understand its philosophical core. His script might be too open-ended with not enough explanations to satisfy every viewers, but that's also the beauty of it; everyone will at least got some messages from the graphical impact and in the end they can interpret the movie anyway they like. The final scenes in the movie, the image of teenagers walking in the street is no different from the jellyfish swimming in Tokyo's canal, some of them will sting innocent people who came in their ways, but I think Kurosawa, as he has most of those jellyfish find their way to the sea, hope that most of them will be able to find their bright future, eventhough it might be different from what they dreamed.