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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What a mess.
Godless Cannes.
Another place that needs to be scoured by wayward meteor.
The US is welcoming immigrants and providing them first dibs on products intended for infants.
The solutions are there if you look to the obvious.
Maybe the Director should set the example?
“Maybe the Director should set the example?”
Maybe someone should help her.
“A full 20 minutes?”
“Certainly. Guaranteed.”
The US is welcoming immigrants and providing them first dibs on products intended for infants.
She said she interviewed older people as part of her research for the movie and discovered that many found merit with the idea of buying financial security with their willingness to end their life.
“It would alleviate the stress of wondering how they can survive once they are alone. Choosing the moment and the method of their death could be very reassuring,” she said.
She said the approach would find support among the younger generations, too.
“If such a plan was on the table today, I believe that many people would accept it, even welcome it as a viable solution,” she said.
“Most young people worry already what the end of their life will look like. Will their basic needs be met? Can they survive once they live alone? Can they afford to age?” she said.
A consequence of government largesse, in this case SS or whatever they call it in Japan.
Perhaps, but just based on what is written, this could be an astonishingly good idea for a dystopian movie. I hope it is such. Perhaps it could show people to value their elders.
I believe smallpox has a mortality rate of 30%. Technically, it only exists in the lab, but from the way recent news reports have sounded, I would not be surprised if one, or several, of those labs had an Oops! in the near future.
It would be a shame to lose 30% of your population to smallpox right after you deliberately killed off 30% of your population. Better go slow.
The person pushing that should be locked away.
That’s genocide.
It’s nothing creative, debatable, or anything else of value.
Time was I thought the premise of this film was comical. Now...?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Yeah we covered this one already
Soylent Green
Logans Run
Perhaps, but just based on what is written, this could be an astonishingly good idea for a dystopian movie.
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Sounds like “Logan’s Run”; although in “Logan’s Run” people were terminated when they reached 30.
Well, the US did “Plan COVID” to the same end (albeit without consent), so why not?
/s
Yes. And I was thinking of “Soylent Green” where Heston’s “Book” is convinced that it is time to “go home” and accept euthanasia because he is worn out. It is not the central theme of the story, but Heston’s character clearly values his friend and is sickened by the loss.
Also from the land of plan 75…100 year mortgages!
Excellent! That was what I was thinking of!
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