Understanding Drive My Car (2021) | To Open Up
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2023
- Drive My Car is a beautiful, mysterious, and profound movie about the difficulties in opening up. To say what’s on our mind and to tell people that are close to us what we truly think.
To be honest with the people that you love the most and the ones that love you the most. A strange feeling that everyone goes through.
Like whatever is on our mind is not important to discuss so we bottle it up and wait and wait for the right moment.
Not realising that there isn’t just one right moment because every day, every hour, and every second we don't speak about what we truly think or believe is the right moment but we shy away from that and we keep these thoughts, sometimes thoughts that eat us up and cloud our judgement or minds to the point until no one can listen to them anymore. So they stay with us un-heard.
Stay with ourselves being the listener to our own thoughts. To take what we have to the grave because we were too afraid to say them to the world.
And that’s what Drive My Car represents to me.
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This was a tough one to write
In "Drive My Car" there is a segment that is almost the biggest climax of the movie, where Yusuke Fukaku has a direct, candid dialogue with Koji, the young lover of his deceased wife.
Yusuke Fukaku started the conversation as if the love between him and his wife was very deep, after traumatic events, the two could barely live without each other. And he also knows that his wife does meet other men, but that seems like a way to help her overcome the pain of losing a child and find inspiration for the stories she writes.
Yusuke Fukaku also shared stories his wife told him after each time they had sex, which he would then tell again so she could start writing. So there's nothing special about those random encounters, he doesn't consider his wife a traitor.
However, to break that conviction, Koji brings him a painful truth by continuing the last story that Yusuke Fukaku heard from his wife. It turned out that the ending he heard was not the end of the story:
"The story of a young girl who is the reincarnation of a lamprey, she falls in love with a boy and sneaks into his room and leaves her mark. One day while masturbating in his bed, a stranger broke in", this is the unfinished ending that Yusuke Fukaku heard his wife tell.
"The intruder was a thief and he tried to rape her but while fighting back she killed him and ran away. The girl felt guilty so she planned to meet him to apologize to him for the body in the room but surprised to see the guy is still the same, nothing has changed.The girl fell into chaos thinking she was paranoid but when she returned to the boy's room she found the key had changed and there was a machine Everything around the girl was the same except the camera, so she stood in front of it and repeated many times: she was the one who killed him."
Koji implies that this story means a lot to the wife and certainly to Yusuke Fukaku as well. It makes him unable to find a reason to run away from the thought that his wife has betrayed their love, and that is partly because of him when after all the traumatic events happened: the girl died, When he discovered his wife's affair, Yusuke Fukaku always kept a calm, aloof... and even the ending of this story proved that he wasn't the last by her side.
The bewilderment and guilt of the girl in the story is not only because of the death of the thief, but because she cannot perceive the feelings of the boy. Even when crazy things happened she couldn't touch his mind and even things became more distant.
=> That's masterpiece!!!
Thanks for this...it's always great reading other people's ideas and opinions!
Much unintended damage is caused speaking your truth too. C'est la vie.
Thanks for the analysis. What was interesting to me was Yusuke's inability to assert his own authority over his own life which was reflected in his compulsory delegation of driver role to Misaki, the theater company's designated woman driver. I undestood the title "Drive My Car" as an imperative sentence as if a king had said "rule my kingdom" or a man to another man, "sleep with my woman" or more abstractly, "live me my own life for me"; a sign of irresponsible sentiment. His lack of responsibility I think could be understood in his lack of facing the truth about his partner's betrayal, lacking the courage to confront her with that fact. The movie is a cautionary tale for every living being that has not actualized his wishes, hasn't said what wanted say or lived the life a meaningful way by 'choosing' one's lifestyle, which involves facing the hard truths, saying things that are hard to say. Because, as you pointed out, life is fleeting. One may regret not having even "yelled" at one's partner. One final point, I discussed the ending with my friends wondering why Misaki's car was the same as the man's when she moves to Korea (?). Maybe at the end, Yusuke gives up the car as a sign of burying the past, burying the memories of his dead wife, and for once take control of his life. Maybe the ending is hopeful. Even Misaki moves on with her life.
That's an interesting point about how he lets other people drive his life for him...thanks for that!
Beautifully said🤌
A really great and succinct look at this movie. I know there's more than what you've covered, but honestly a 6 minute piece is a lovely reminder of what this movie meant to me. Thank you!
Thank you for the comment! I'm glad the video helped!
Great analysis. After my first watch, I was really confused as to why Yusuke didn't confront his wife at all. But reading the short story and rewatching the movie made me understand his hestitation.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
It's really thought provoking wow what a presentation ❤
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I’m so intrigued about what happened next after the girl who killed the burglar said: “I killed him” repeatedly at the CCTV camera. Why would the family cover up the murder? I’d definitely watch a film of that story.
That story is an analogy for her cheating on her husband, the family and boy covering the murder is just yusuke not acknowledging her cheatinf to keep things like they were before, the girl knowing that and becoming paranoid and revealing herself is his wife feeling immense guilt and wanting to tell her husband what she's been doing, knowing that doing so could end up in the relationship coming to an end (or in story, the girl getting caught as the killer)
@@chinchirap Thank you for this. That makes perfect sense.
Hey are you on Letterboxd?
Not on that unfortunately...and I feel like it's too late to start it
@@filmisjustmovingpictures haha booo. why does it matter when u start it? It’s an app u don’t even start anything rlly, except logging films as and when u watch one
I've got my own spreadsheet of every movie I've seen since 2020 and now I'm too attached that I don't wanna use anything else 😂
@@filmisjustmovingpictures damn ok yh fairs
MAKE BETTER VIDEOS. NO REAL INSIGHT ON YOUR PART YOU ARE JUST EXPLAING THE MOVIE. DO BETTER WITH THIS MARTERPIECE!!!!
At first I thought this video was not the best - but over time I appreciate the work I put into it. But I will keep trying to get better. That's always the aim.