Posted on 05/22/2022 2:58:07 PM PDT by blam
A Japanese filmmaker is shaking Cannes film audiences to the core with a dystopian vision of her country in which old people agree to be euthanized to solve the challenge of a rapidly aging population.
“Plan 75” by Japanese director and writer Chie Hayakawa is based on a very real problem.
Japan is the most rapidly-aging industrial society, a trend that is causing huge economic and political problems as a dwindling number of younger people must support a growing army of the old.
Close to 30 percent of Japan’s population is over 65, the majority women, and that rate is expected to continue rising in the coming decades.
In the movie, anybody over 75 is encouraged to sign up for a deal with the government by which they receive a sum of money in return for agreeing to be euthanized. A collective funeral is thrown in for free.
Slick ad campaigns and calls from people with soothing voices are part of the effort to get people to sign up. Handsome advisors list the small pleasures candidates could afford with the money. “You’ll be able to go to the restaurant,” says one.
“On the face of it, the government’s Plan 75 is full of goodwill and friendliness and pragmatism, but in truth, it is both very cruel and shameful,” Hayakawa told AFP in an interview.
“The aging of the population is not a recent problem, I’ve always heard people discussing it,” she said.
“When I was young, a long life was considered to be a good thing, people had respect for older people. That’s no longer the case,” the 45-year-old director added.
‘Cold and cruel’
“Plan 75”, Hayakawa’s first full-length feature film, is full of slow sequences with minimal camera movement.
“I wanted the images to be aesthetic and beautiful....
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She actually points out how shameful such an idea is
This is her way to shed light on it
Maybe I’m misunderstanding but I think she’s against it :
“On the face of it, the government’s Plan 75 is full of goodwill and friendliness and pragmatism, but in truth, it is both very cruel and shameful,” Hayakawa told AFP in an interview.
“When I was young, a long life was considered to be a good thing, people had respect for older people. That’s no longer the case,” the 45-year-old director added.
Soylent Green.
You want Soylent yellow with that?
I’d rather have some 150 D’s a jar strawberries.
Ah—I stand corrected then.
Maybe people should read the article. Just a few paragraphs before the jump.
How about Fatherless by James Dobson and Kurt Bruner
Did you perhaps read "1984" and think it was an instruction book not a warning?
Japan painted themselves into a demographic corner by forcing women into the workplace and not doing a thing to resolve their insane real estate prices.
With Dick Van Patten as the grim reaper.
I’d like to sleep on Chuck Connor’s furniture(Paula Kelly) for a while.
Many good actors, Brock Peters for example.@
Yeah, he was good in the role of an tired, slightly corrupt cop in a dysfunctional system.
Love movies like this. Had a plot, good cast and no cgi.
CGI is alright for special effects but shouldn’t have to BE the movie.
Christine should set an example. She is no spring chicken.
Don’t know about Asians today, but they used to honor the wisdom of their elders.
redrum.
She didn’t offer herself? Shocked I tell you!
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