I was watching this movie and made me want to write about this book, which I wasn't really think of writing about it. To start, people may have different opinion on the movie, but I personally I liked it. Its about a kid who immersed himself in jazz, and a professor who just keep pushing the kid until he breaks. And I can kind of relate myself to this kid as I think I have this tendency of getting lost in my own world, unable to see the other possible choices. And this I believe can be said to various aspects in life, but here I will discusses in terms of jobs quoting from the book as below. 組織が不安定になっても、社会のなかにおける"職業"という軸をしっかりしていれば、そこから距離をとり、職場のなかでの仕事を茶化したりズラしたりすることができます。"ポスト日本型雇用社会"における茶化し/ズラしのためには、組織の安定に左右されない、社会のなかにおける仕事="職業"という考え方が必須で、それこそ、現代日本において、かりあげクンのように"軽やかに"いきるための条件なのです And what I like about the books is that it extends this way of "humorizing" to the life itself, finding the common ground in the way how the people lived back in Soviet Union. 後期社会主義では...彼らは、権威的な言説を茶化したり、骨抜きにしたり、新しい意味を与えたりしながら、一見抑圧的な体制の下にありながらも、"軽やかに暮らし""とても楽しい生活をしていた"のです...かりあげクンは、堅苦しい会社の仕事から"超越(ヴェ二)"した存在で、作品では、彼が、"軽やかに暮らし""とても楽しい生活をして"いる様子が描かれます。彼は、後期社会主義のソ連に生きていた人々と同じく、"システムの内部にいてその一部として機能しながら同時にその枠外の別の場所にいる生き方"(ユルチャク)をしていると言えるでしょう Note that I do _like_ my job, but it can't be all that's out there, so as every other things in life. Also I occasionally get lost in those books I read, makes me feel deadlocked and little discouraged, which is kind of paradoxical as they are suppose to help me figure out those lingering question of mine. Maybe his "軽やかさ" is exactly what I need now in my life haha. By the way, I like jazz and listening to them makes me want to appreciate the world just as it is, not sure myself what that suppose to mean though😂. There is a nice jazz bar in Shinjuku, which I haven't visited for a while. Hope I can visit the place once again during this summer.