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from director Kiyoshi Kurosawa on his film - Bright Future:
I am trying very hard to remember how I was 25 years ago. What kind of future
did I have then? I cannot remember anything now. Back then, I was most
interested in myself, and not in any kinds of future. I felt that there was no
connection between myself and the future that the world was supposed to be
heading for. The only important matter to me was how I was going to respond to
the things in front of me. I believe that all the young people are like this.
Then, after a while, you realize that you are just what you are, and it makes
you feel apprehensive. No, you want to feel relieved by convincing yourself that
it is all right like this. All the sudden, you begin to think about your future.
It means that you are growing up. It looks like the future belongs to adults.
Nonetheless, adults tell young people that You have future. This is indeed
malicious and dangerous. This is an expression to seduce the young people to
join these adults. This means that we prepared rails for you. You just run on
them until their ends. This is obviously malicious as it suggests that we do
not allow you to decide what you want to do. At the beginning, the young people
are bewildered, but after several years, the adults seduction will become
difficult to resist against, and eventually, they begin to run on the rails
prepared by them. The young people also begin to be conscious of their future.
This future means what it is at the end of these rails.
I have reached the middle age, however, I still hate the word future
directed to the young people without thinking. I do not want to care about these
young people seriously, but I do not want to be disillusioned that there is the
future of the whole world at the end of the rails prepared unconsciously by
myself. My future belongs only to me. I do not want anybody else running after
me. In a story by Akutagawa Ryunoske, a famed novelist, there was a man who was
climbing up on the thin thread of a spider getting him out of the hell. When he
realized that hundreds of others were following him on the same thread, he
shouted down at them Dont follow me! This thread is mine. As soon as he said
this, the thread was cut and all of them including himself fell down to the
bottom of the hell. If something like this happens, you can just look at me from
the side of your eyes smiling. I will do fine by myself in the hell.
I believe the future means a stormy time laying in darkness just in front of
the present time. Some of the rails seen in the middle of a storm head for the
hell, while others are gone after the strong winds carry them away. What should
we do now?
For jellyfish, this storm is where they live in. They capture their targets
while they are blown by the wind, swim against the time, and move in zigzag.
They transform themselves to fierce poison inside themselves. They do not seek
for lights, but they emit lights from their bodies. They are soft and flexible,
a perfect form suitable for living in the storm. Moreover, they are never alone.
They keep procreating themselves outside of what we conceive to be the world. I
do not know what kind of future they live in. However, their future only seen in
the middle of the dark storm must be nothing but bright.
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