Emotional Spaces and Places of Salaryman Anxiety in Tokyo Sonata
Emotional Spaces and Places of Salaryman Anxiety in Tokyo Sonata
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《东京奏鸣曲》中上班族焦虑的情感空间与场所
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10.1080/10371397.2011.619169
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发表时间：
2011
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通讯作者：
R. Dasgupta
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作者：
R. Dasgupta
在这篇文章中，我讨论了2008年的电影《东京奏鸣曲》如何将舒适郊区的情感和自然地理对比，以及社会文化沮丧的当代现实结合在一起。佐佐木家族是日本城市中产阶级典型核心家庭的化身。当父亲佐佐木Ryūhei从中层管理工作中下岗的那一天，他们的世界开始瓦解。由于不愿向家人透露这一点，RyūHei每天早上继续穿着西装去上班，但他每天都在一个流浪汉居住的公园里度过。最终，他在一家购物中心找到了清洁工的工作。RyūHei从白领上班族到卑微工人的旅程，是在经济衰退时期东京错综复杂的身体和情感状况下的集体焦虑的背景下进行的。我认为，从本质上讲，这是一种焦虑，是对家庭和工作场所以及日本作为一个国家失去男性权威的焦虑。此外，如果不参考后泡沫时代日本的社会、文化、经济和情感状况，这种焦虑是无法充分理解的。
In this article I discuss the ways in which the 2008 film Tokyo Sonata engages with the contrasting emotional and physical geographies of comfortable suburbia and the contemporary reality of socio-cultural despondency. The Sasaki family is the embodiment of the quintessential nuclear family of urban, middle-class Japan. Their world starts unravelling the day the father, Sasaki Ryūhei, is laid off from his middle-management job. Unwilling to reveal this to his family, Ryūhei continues to leave for work each morning dressed in his suit, but spends his days in a park inhabited by homeless men. Ultimately, he finds employment as a cleaner in a shopping mall. Ryūhei's journey from white-collar salaryman to menial worker is set against the backdrop of collective anxiety in the intermeshing physical and emotional ‘scapes’ of recession-era Tokyo. I argue that, at the core, this is an anxiety about the loss of masculine authority in the home and the workplace, and at the level of Japan as a nation. Moreover, it is an anxiety that cannot be fully appreciated without reference to the framing social, cultural, economic and emotional topographies of post-bubble Japan.