The synopsis in the movie Departures reads "A premiere symphony orchestra in Tokyo disbands, leaving Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) suddenly unemployed. Suffering from an innate sense that he is a mediocre musician, he faces up to the fact that not everyone who has devoted their life to music can become a top artist."
I read the description after viewing the movie. Well, I am not sure why they put such a description in the synopsis. I defintely did not see this part when I was in the cinema. Everything was sadly beautiful.
It is a description that is quite hard to admit, as it was such a heart warming MOVIE.
Well a fact is a fact, facing up to the fact that one is a mediocre, despite our best efforts, our highest devotion, our purest prayer, our earnest imagination, is hard. Being misled by our inflated ego, fantasy and the one last hope one has left. And we pushed ourselves to be not the mediocre, that we innately know we are.
Is mediocre really that bad? Why is it bad? What is so bad about, if despite our best efforts, our highest devotion, our purest prayer, our earnest imagination, we are a mediocre?
What is best? what is excellence? what is the benchmark? who decides? with such limitation of trial and error, how can one be so spot on of being the best at one try, and when we don't even know ourselves well.
Daigo 大悟.
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