Inspired by the reportage documenting multiple miscarrying incidents of infants in Japan in the 1970s, Hirokazu Koreeda wrote this suspicious story of blood ties. The film takes many families as the main body and is a typical middle-class value model. Children have to practice piano in order to be admitted to prestigious schools. Fathers have to work hard to support the family. When they return home, they are also dignified and rational. The father-son relationship is restrained and rigid. And the grassroots family represented by the father of the grocery store owner bluntly cut into the conflicts brought about by the life of many families, not only at the level of blood identity, but also brought shocks in values. Only the instinct of family can penetrate the gap between the well-educated family education model of the middle class and the parent-child time in the humble countryside. Blood ties are actually unable to determine and influence the direction of emotions. In the end, family affection is nourished by shared life memories.
Like Father, Like Son Creative background
2022-01-15 08:02
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