"I thought she was going back!"
"She chose here!"
"The bond you choose can last for a long time!"
The grandmother and the heroine walked on the flyover and looked at the two children running happily in front. The heroine is emotional.
"Just like when I chose you?!"
When grandma said that, I didn't quite understand it.
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woman
The story of "not a family" was exposed, and two adults who vaguely played the roles of "father and mother" were charged with "abduction".
Knowing that the little girl had returned to her abusive parents, the heroine's eyes showed worry and helplessness.
But the police are still pressing step by step, "The child is going to return to the mother after all!"
"Really? This is the mother's wishful thinking! Is it natural to become a mother after giving birth to a child?"
"But how can you be a mother if you don't have children? You actually care that you can't have children, so you treat other people's children as your own, right?"
"..."
"So, what do the children who live together call you?"
"What do you call me... that's right... what do you call me..."
The director gave the heroine a close-up of almost 2 minutes. In this long shot, her expression slowly changed from numbness to sadness, and finally she couldn't hold it back and burst into tears.
This is the most intense and only emotional release of the heroine in the whole film, and the police's words hit the woman.
I remember when the story first started, the man carried home the little girl who was still hanging outside in the middle of the winter night. She was the one who opposed it. A look of indifference, disgusting trouble. He shouted, "Oh, this is a trouble, you have to get it out of the way!"
It was night, and two people hunched over the child and wanted to send it back to her home. At the door, I heard the quarrel of the young couple. The young mother cried, "I don't want to give birth to her either!"
The woman suddenly squatted down and hugged the child tightly. The original idea of resolutely sending it back was instantly dispelled.
The man stared blankly at the woman who was lost in thought for some reason, her face showing realization. Grandma and woman take the children to the supermarket, the fitting room lets the children try on clothes.
The woman asks the little girl, do you like it?
The little girl shook her head.
"why?"
"Won't you be beaten?"
The woman was silent.
Back home, the woman takes the girl for a bath. The girl saw the scar on her hand and stroked her over and over again. She said it was all right, everything was fine.
The girl said, "I have it too", and her thin arms stretched out and placed them with hers, and the two scalded scars were tightly attached to each other.
After taking a shower, she burned the clothes the girl was wearing when she was picked up.
Looking at the burning flame, she held the girl in her arms.
"They said they would beat you if they liked you. It's a lie. If they really like you, they will hold you like this." The little girl thought it was her own reason that made her brother reluctant to go home, so she squatted in the cold front room and waited. He returns.
The woman used to tell her that it wasn't her fault.
The girl was still stubbornly waiting in place.
"She shouldn't be like this," the woman said to her grandmother. "A child treated like that won't be so kind, right?" As, she didn't know her kindness. two
man
The same is the cross-examination after the matter is revealed.
The director gave the man a second rare close-up.
The police asked him if he didn't feel guilty about teaching such a young child to steal?
"I have nothing else to teach them," he replied. The little boy was handed over to the orphanage, and he took him out fishing. The boy was reluctant to go back and slept with him.
In the middle of the night the boy asked him if they were going to drop him and run away.
The man answered honestly, yes, but unfortunately he didn't run away.
"I'm sorry, uncle is going to be your uncle again."
The man muttered to himself in despair in the dark night. The next day he took the child to take the bus, and he knew that he would not be able to go back.
During the few years we were together, the child never called him "Dad" once. Even when the bond was the deepest, he half-coaxed and half-coaxed to hear the word, but it didn't come true.
People like them have no concept of time. Just like in their humble lives, they don't know what laws and rules are.
He didn't dare to expect "it's okay, there will be opportunities in the future".
Therefore, he will only call his own father by himself in private.
But at that moment, the moment he put the child on the bus, he wanted to save it, maybe an apology, or maybe he wanted to hear the word "Dad".
He ran after the bus, like a dying beast.
This is also the most intense and only time the man loses control in the whole film.
Men who are not physically fit can't run for long after all.
So he couldn't hear the boy chasing him in the car, whispering "Dad" softly.
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man and woman
They had a deep love affair in the rainy afternoon after the woman was laid off.
This is the only chance in the film to give men and women the lust and indulgence they deserve.
This is a pair of men and women who can lick each other's wounds and share with each other.
Their world is a bond that smells bad from the sewers.
They had killed people and used the same treatment to bury their grandmother's body under the house.
They are the relationship between the benefactor and the call girl.
They steal things.
They gathered together old and young who were not related by blood, crowded into a small and cluttered house, and lived by.
They play a family, a kind and kind grandma, a cowardly and kind male host, a pungent and indifferent hostess, a rebellious but beautiful sister, a eldest son who is curious about the world, and a young daughter who depends on his brother.
Their daily life is that of a normal family of six living at the bottom of society, and their bond is the most real and common bond in the world.
However they are not family.
Men earn money outside and put it all into grandma's account. Grandma thought it was her pension from the government.
Women don't let "sister" go out to deceive, because in a big deal, she can still reappear.
The fake couple just manipulated the script of playing a family so unplanned.
The audience outside the play was deceived, they thought it was the ordinary daily life of the family.
The ending gave everyone a slap in the face.
Is this slap in the face with painful warmth, or warm pain?
Those real, humble and happy lives may not exist in some "real" families.
It's like that "whole family" got together excitedly, and the fireworks blooming in the distance that can only be heard but not seen.
Even happiness is stolen.
The Mirror Flowers and the Moon and the Mirage are the portrayal of the emotional bond of this "family".
These people are not even good people, even with the fetters they created, they all carry a despicableness.
It is this "despicable bond" that strikes the hearts of the audience.
To live is to create fetters.
Even if the fetters are painful.
Because, "We have nothing but love."
After the PS viewing session, the director and two other main creators also came to the scene to interact with the media and the audience.
When asked why he likes to use "elements of the family to explore the relationship between people", and why it is necessary to show the fetters of the family in such a "unique way".
The director's answer is heart-warming, "I don't know why, I just want everyone to see what I see."
Thanks director.
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