When high-rise buildings are used as symbols: commercial value, price determines fate, digitization..., then the low-rise buildings hidden among the high-rise buildings may not be the poverty and evil that a city is willing to face. In the dark shadow of the city, nourishing A feast of loneliness, in the absence and occupation of love and oblivion, a dying struggle to survive. No one can imagine the other side of the metropolis, a group of people excluded by clean order, people whose mouths are tightly hooked by material bait hooks - thieves like swimming fish, rendered with crude stealing techniques Another life song, painting the other side of Tokyo.
No society will accept "stealing", taking other people's property. Sometimes it is not only a moral issue, but: I bought it with money, why can you have it for free? What "The Thief Family" stole is only daily necessities, and the most expensive is the fishing rod. The Shibata family trades stolen items for money and happiness. But what is the bigger hidden theft? Who stole their happiness, stole their feelings? It is the family and blood itself. The Shibata family becomes a sanctuary for the lonely wanderer, keeping each other warm, each carrying the trauma of abandonment - each excluded from one home after another. They tried to rebuild a home, and in turn were devoured by blood. The film boldly interweaves five narrative lines in one house. What they have in common is that there is a so-called in each transformation: unforgettable people, even if it is old trauma, or new knowledge - of course, new knowledge may be the source of future trauma. We reflect on the power of kinship: love and destruction go hand in hand. Since blood relationship is predestined, of course it can create a warm current that resists the real world, but once it is abandoned by blood, the destruction of this abandonment is so deadly - and blood has laws to act as its standard bearer.
The film's narratives deliberately erase the cause and effect, so that we cannot understand all the stories of each character. It is Hirokazu Koreeda who boldly uses "absence" to tell the story, which makes us understand the fragmentation of people at the bottom of urban life. "Complete" is speechless, only "absence" can fully present human loneliness. Whether it is a thank you or a father, as long as it is turned into words, it seems to be distorted. Too much caring also becomes a knife - no one can go through more trauma. It's just that we have to remember every poetic shot: Shibata in the parking lot pretending to be a big fish chasing his son, a snowman with a tin can as his eyes, a plastic bag football being slapped in the house, that's Hirokazu-eda The warmth and kindness that never gave up.
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