The Kindest World

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昨日、佐藤二朗と橋本愛とフジテレビの問題についてサラッと私見を述べたが

真意は伝わっただろうか?

申し訳ないけど俺は誰の肩も持てないし

ある意味では誰の味方にもなれるということだ

いやあまあだってさ?

規模が小さいとはいえ

俺なんて制作、監督、脚本、主演で

キャスティングまでやって

ラブストーリーやってるわけだ

哀しいことだけど

いくら純粋にクリエイティブを

突き詰めていたとしても

タダでは安心は生まれてはくれないし

どれだけ気をつけても足りないくらいだし

うまいことチームで空気作りだって

やらなきゃ良いもん撮れるはずもないわけだ

勿論、盛大に失敗したこともあるよ

それを役者たるもの〜という

「べき論」で片付けられたら

そんなに楽なことはなかったし

俺も随分とラクにはなるけど

残念ながらそれを悪用してきた方々が

かつても今もたくさんいらっしゃって

という歴史がある以上

安易にその地点に戻せるはずもないわけだ

どうすれば安心が生まれるかということは

常に考えなければならないことであって

そう簡単なことでもないということだ

かと言って少し失敗したからと言って

社会的に抹殺されるようなことでも

ないということだよ

よほど悪意ある行為なら別だが…

同様に未熟者を未熟者と糾弾したところで

糾弾者も社会も

何も得るものはないということだ

“The Kindest World”

Yesterday, I casually shared my own take on the situation involving Jiro Sato, Ai Hashimoto, and Fuji TV, but I wonder if what I truly meant actually came across.

I’m sorry, but the truth is I can’t take anyone’s side — and in a way, that also means I can be on anyone’s side.

I mean, come on, right? Even though it’s on a much smaller scale, I myself handle production, directing, screenwriting, and starring — I even do the casting — and I make love stories.

It’s a sad reality, but no matter how purely you pursue creativity, a sense of safety doesn’t just appear for free. No matter how careful you are, it’s never quite enough, and unless you manage to build the right atmosphere as a team, there’s no way you can shoot something truly good. Of course, I’ve had my share of spectacular failures too.

If all of this could simply be brushed off with a “this is how an actor ought to be” kind of “ought-to” argument, nothing would be easier — and honestly, it would make my own life a lot easier too. But unfortunately, there is a long history of people who have exploited exactly that kind of thinking, both in the past and today, and given that history, there’s no way we can casually go back to that way of thinking.

How to create a genuine sense of safety is something we must constantly keep thinking about — it’s not a simple question with an easy answer.

That said, making a small mistake doesn’t mean someone should be socially obliterated. Unless, of course, it was an act of real malicious intent — that’s a different matter entirely…

Likewise, even if you condemn someone immature for being immature, neither the one doing the condemning nor society as a whole gains anything from it.

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