If you want to read my review of Will I Be Single Forever, read this post. In ずっと独身でいるつもり, Mami Honda wrote a best seller criticizing society’s standards of women’s roles, but now she’s changed her mind about some things and is going to have to deal with the consequences.
Mami Honda (Minami Tanaka) is 36 years old and ten years ago she released a book empowering singleness for Japanese women called “let’s be a blooming flower alone in the savanna called the city.” or just “CitySavanna.”.
“Clothes, shoes and bags, I can get myself whatever I want and yet is it sad to bloom alone?”
Yukino Sato (Miwako Ichikawa) is Mami’s next-door neighbor and was disappointed by Mami’s change of heart 10 years after the book’s release.
“The loneliest women are not those who are alone. But, those how can’t stand to be alone and quickly get attached with someone.”
Mami breaks the internet when she says on a TV show that she changed her mind a decade after the book was released and that now she understands women who want to get married and have children.
Will I Be Single Forever: japanese movie review
All the characters are connected to each other in some way and the film portrays the different aspects of each one’s life and the pros and cons of their choices.
Yukino harshly criticizes Mami on the internet as a reflex act after being dumped by her younger boyfriend. The relationship lasted several years and they even rented an apartment together.
“I don’t wanna be alone. That’s why I want to be with someone. That’s what marriage is for, right?”
Miho Suzuki (Sayuri Matsumura) makes it pretty easy as a Sugar Baby and is paid 30,000 yen an hour to liven up the atmosphere while everyone drinks.
“I mean, just to be able to have a drink with a pretty young girl like me is priceless, don’t you think?”
Ayaka Takahashi (Eri Tokunaga), from time to time, questions her choice to have married and conceived a child, forming the typical family where all responsibility falls on the woman’s shoulders, while the man only works.
“Just playing with the kid is not babysitting.”
Kohei (Yu Inaba) is Mami’s boyfriend and there are positives and negatives to the fact that he is 5 years younger than her. For example, he doesn’t think that housework is a woman’s responsibility, nor that she should stop using her famous maiden name when they get married.
“I think it would be super fun to get married and have kids with you.”
Mami’s mother (Mariko Tsutsui) is the typical country lady who cares about what others think and wants her daughter to fit into all established social standards.
“It’s a relief to know that you wanted to get married, too. That book made me a little embarrassed, you know.”
People tend to change in 10 years and now that Mami has changed her mind about marriage, she will have to deal with the different aspects involving her boyfriend, family, work and fans on the internet.
Reviewing Will I Be Single Forever: CitySavanna
As a man, I can’t make value judgments about the dream that women have to get married. But, as a member of society, I know the capacity that education and supervision of the members of the moral and good customs committee has in shaping what we should be, want and how we should behave.
For example, in Japanese society, if you’re a woman in your 30s and you don’t expect to get married, you will already suffer from the most subtle to the most incisive forms of some kind of warning. It seems that there is a social timer getting closer and closer to the end. The end of the woman’s role.
I think there shouldn’t be restrictions like that. There are all kinds of people in the world and we as a society have to be aware of that. There are women who want to get married, others who don’t and others who have changed their minds over the course of life and personal maturity and that’s okay too.
Why you should watch Will I Be Single Forever
I won’t leave Will I Be Single Forever ending explained or a download link here, but i believe that these Japanese films bring to the female audience, in a very light way, the always relevant question: do you really need a man to be happy?
And possibly, this extends to the issue of children. Is it really necessary to have children for a person to fulfill his role in society?
Will I Be Single Forever trailer
I really feel that you will like this one. So I decided to do this Zutto Dokushin de Iru Tsumori review. Go ahead, immerse yourself in the story, the environment and the soundtrack.
And come back later to tell me what you think in the comments. This is one of those Japanese movies that lightly raise relevant discussions for any society.
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