So will the Japanese archipelago really sink? This is a scientific argument that combines the doctrine of continental drift, geophysics, geology, oceanography, meteorology, seismology, and more:

Let's start with the internal structure of the earth, the center is like an egg yolk is the core of the earth; Surrounded by proteins is the mantle; The outermost layer is the earth's crust. The Earth's core is divided into an inner core, which is a solid, and an outer core, with a central pressure of three million atmospheres and a temperature of up to 6,000 degrees Celsius. The mantle is also divided into upper and lower layers, and its thickness is roughly half of the radius of the earth - 2,900 kilometers, and its constituent material is olivine, which is 4,200 degrees at the boundary with the earth's core, 600 to 800 degrees from the continent at the boundary with the earth's crust, and at most 200 degrees from the ocean. The Earth's crust is made up of lighter continental plates and hard ocean-bottom plates, the thinnest of which is only 30 km in the continental part and only 5 km in the ocean floor, and the continental masses float like icebergs on the harder plates above the mantle (as if standing on the 0.2 mm membrane of a balloon with a diameter of 50 cm) through the silicon-magnesium layer that makes up the ocean-bottom crust.

In addition, due to differences in temperature and the quality of matter, convection currents can form in the mantle layer. Like meteorological knowledge, the intersection of cold and warm air currents leads to clouds and rain, and the continuous expansion of the Earth's core and the convection of the Earth's mantle form orogeny and land-building movements, as well as continental drift. Over the course of 50 million years, Japan has moved five or six hundred kilometers southward from its territory in a straight line next to the Russian Coastal Frontier, bending into a bow-and-arrow region to the northeast and southwest. (The mantle, which has been considered solid in relation to seismic waves, is actually a matter that is in slow convection for a long time; The Japan Trench is located just above the subsidence of the Pacific plate above the large mantle current; The Japanese archipelago is a front that straddles the front of the mantle current; The Pacific side of the archipelago is pulled downwards by the plate that burrows into the archipelago, and the rising mantle from the continental side and the expansion of the Japan Trench make it withstand a tremendous force that is pushed above the plate on the ocean side. So the Japanese territory drifted and transformed)

Finally, the Earth's core expands due to increased pressure and temperature. It causes a sharp and incoherent change in the convective morphology of the mantle. The mantle convective vortex was very small at the point when the mantle of the Japanese archipelago on the Pacific side shrank rapidly, and when the support point was gone, Japan sank. (When the temperature is low, just like heating the water in a container.) There is an ascending part in the middle of the water surface and a descending part around the periphery, forming a slow convection; And when boiling at high temperatures, the boiling point is formed across the entire water surface)

Thus, in the movie, the sinking of Japan was finally stopped by filling the borehole with N2 explosives and blowing up the ocean-floor plate that dragged mainland Japan into the sea. Theoretically, this is impossible, but books are also science fiction.

The Japanese themselves wrote about the sinking of Japan and filmed "The Sinking of Japan" by themselves. An in-depth interpretation of the sense of distress of the Japanese island nation. People say that the history of China is a history of famine; The history of Japan is a history of disasters, and after a catastrophe full of holes, the Japanese have created an unbelievable national identity. It is also conceivable to think about what the Japanese right-wing has done. In the movie, there is a more profound sentence, "Same as loved." Together with the country, life and death together". It's as described in the book. When it was learned that Japan was about to sink in one year, most people thought that the best thing to do was to do nothing... What kind of spirit is this?

In fact, if we look at the subjectivity of Japanese culture, the main threat to Japan's decline does not come from culture, politics and economy, but from nature itself. All kinds of human forces, including politics, economy, and culture, seem so powerless in the face of great natural changes. All one can do is escape as much as possible within the limited time frame. Undoubtedly, this is a sign of a powerful inner fear of Japan as an island civilization. In order to escape this fear, Japan had to do everything possible to occupy the "resources of the mainland" and even did not hesitate to carry out armed conquest and plunder of other land countries and nations.

End of the film. The national disaster response department blew up the geological plates that were pulling Japan down, halting further spread of the disaster, but Japan as a country paid a high price for the deaths of 80 million people. We see the symbols that we are familiar with that represent Japanese civilization: Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara...... Without exception, it became a dead ruin, marking a terrible and pale starting point for Japan to rebuild its history and civilization.

This is a nightmare of Japanese culture, and with the frequent occurrence of geological disasters such as earthquakes and volcanoes, this nightmare will always accompany modern Japanese society and become a lingering picture of the end times in the minds of Japanese people. In the plot, Japan, facing sinking, has to send a distress signal to the international community and the surrounding continental countries, begging them to accept a total of up to 20 million refugees. In the film, China, which has a deep grudge with Japan, and the United States on the other side of the Pacific, generously extend a helping hand to Japanese refugees, while in Europe, Japanese refugees have attracted strong resistance from the people.

From the perspective of dream interpretation, this plot can be seen as a symbol and reversal of the hidden dangers of Japan's real international relations. At the beginning of the plot, the self-confident American geological authority provides Japan with a false and false warning of disaster, so that the Japanese government is caught off guard by the sudden disaster. Later in the story, an anti-Japanese wave erupts in Europe due to the influx of Japanese refugees. At the level of Japanese realpolitik and international relations, Europe and the United States happen to be the closest strategic allies with Japan, why have they become difficult partners to rely on in the plot?

In fact, the Japanese know very well that Europe is too far away after all, and once Japan really falls into an existential predicament, Europe is often in a position beyond the reach of the whip. During World War II, Japan formed an Axis power with Germany and Italy, and not only could not receive sufficient strategic support from Germany and Italy, but on the contrary, Japan had to abide by the obligations of the Axis powers and overinvest its already limited forces in the Southeast Asian theater, so that Japan's national output was eventually exhausted by the long front. Therefore, in history, Japan has suffered great losses in maintaining the Japan-Europe alliance for this. Of course, the United States cannot be trusted, and compared with the bilateral relations between the United States and Japan, the United States will always put its own national interests first. And in the minds of the Japanese, the United States is an angel on one side, and the most ferocious demon on the other, and the two atomic bombs they dropped on Japan are enough to make the children and grandchildren of Japan feel like a man on their backs forever.

So, who should Japan trust? On whom to rely? The answer given by the film is China. But this is an obvious paradox with Japan's political reality. According to the current pattern of Sino-Japanese relations, if Japan really encounters a national disaster like the one depicted in the film, could China become its strategic rescuer? Assuming that the Chinese government is magnanimous, it will do its best to provide Japan with the necessary relief materials, but whether or not it dares to accept Japanese refugees is not a question that the government can easily express. Let's imagine that if the Chinese people, who have been grudging Japan for a long time, suddenly have to face the influx of millions of Japanese refugees one day, will they really be able to live in peace with each other?

Therefore, Tang Ning believes that the filmmakers still touched on some of the deep worries of Japanese realistic culture. In particular, reflecting on Japan's political strategy of "breaking away from Asia and joining Europe" and resetting Japan's relations with its Asian neighbors, it can even be said that the artist has shown a more realistic and wise cognitive attitude than some politicians. (To be continued.) )