Shoplifters Comments

  • Trudie 2022-03-24 09:02:43

    The time span of the entire film narrative is about one year, from the cold winter of the first year to the winter of the second year. The film is two hours long, and there are not many core events, but the amount of information is particularly large. A sentence blurted out by a character or a picture swept by the camera will make the audience think carefully. In addition, each character is very three-dimensional and has rich psychological activities, so it is especially worth a second...

  • Evalyn 2022-03-24 09:02:43

    86/100 Japan has felt that the traditional family model formed by blood relationship is gradually unable to adapt to the current economic and social environment, and the traditional family's previous advantages in love, childcare, and pension are now stretched thin. The mutual aid family in the movie may be a reminder of the lag consciousness of the government and the law. If the law says that a child must go back to parents who can't give love, there must be something...

  • Carleton 2022-03-24 09:02:43

    After watching a good movie, I also want to write something, but my writing is not as good as others. I just need to remember that after watching it today, I couldn't stop crying, and finally I was restrained. In the last shot of the movie, I couldn't help but say "I really can't watch it anymore." I always hoped that the people in the movie would be good, but I couldn't help but like such a "bad" movie. How nice to live with...

  • Bert 2022-03-24 09:02:43

    A group of unscrupulous and unscrupulous people gathered together to chew the sweetness of orange peels, listen to the sound of fireworks blooming, and build ugly snowmen. Far from the blood and the system, the new family is disgraceful, but has the warmth without...

  • Ayla 2022-03-24 09:02:43

    There are two kinds of love in the world: one is picked up and broken again; the other is broken and picked up again. Which do you believe...

  • Melany 2022-03-24 09:02:43

    In the whole film, the scene that moved me the most was the scene where everyone was sitting outside watching fireworks. A family of young and old sat in front of the yard and heard the sound of fireworks. They looked up at the distant sky together. No one spoke, and there was no picture of fireworks. In the close-up, only the faces of every family member looking forward to the future. This seemingly beautiful picture is heartbreaking. Such beauty is as fleeting as...

  • Thalia 2022-03-24 09:02:43

    The "thief family" is selfish and altruistic. All relationships are not what they appear to be, but just stay in this second of licking, snuggling, and supporting each other. The real purpose is to survive, but isn't that the essence of family? Hatsue Honda silently said "Thank you," and Shota called Zhi "Dad". These are the two most moving moments. It's a compendium of the director's main themes—family, isolation, the repressive qualities of Japanese culture, and...

  • Cullen 2022-03-24 09:02:43

    The film faces a huge theoretical dilemma, that is, professional actors are put together into a family to play a piece of family, and then after being revealed by the agency/camera, there is basically no drama to play, especially the young girl's self-questioning. There is still something to be said for children, because children are not necessarily fully...

  • Adela 2022-03-24 09:02:43

    In the room where the fireworks were not visible, they lived separately like ants, and the warmth that quietly grew was enough to resist the darkness. Thank you, those who chose me from the...

  • Karlie 2022-03-23 09:02:34

    It was Hirokazu Koreeda who mastered his own set of family dramas to perfection, and his emotional control was extremely precise before and after the reversal. Every time he watched it, he felt that it was the same old style, but every time he was moved. Among the good actors of all ages, Ando Sakura easily surpassed Sister Tao's eldest leading actress in the last few...

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Shoplifters quotes

  • Yuri: [while trying on a swimsuit in a department store dressing room] Will you hit me later?

    Nobuyo Shibata: [Anguished] No, I will not hit you.

  • Nobuyo Shibata: If someone hits you and tells you they are doing it because they love you, they are a liar.

    [Hugging Yuri]

    Nobuyo Shibata: This is what someone does when they love you.